Well, it's currently 2:28 and anyone who knows me knows that this is my bewitching hour. The last half hour before the "I don't wannas" start up. The kids? Naaaah. They're still happily working. It's ME! I wind down (and eventually out) by this time and THIS is how far I've gotten on the pureeing. (see pic) The good news? I only got this far because I was doing school! The bad news? Chick-Fil-A for lunch and I'm currently chewing on Twizzlers that I purchased at Walgreen's this morning while also generously purchasing Alka-Seltzer for my Rachey's film canister bomb experiment that I brought home from the library in the form of a book called "You Gotta Try This!" Ok, so I've decided that I will GRACIOUSLY allow the blogging world (i.e. y-o-u) to see the "process" of getting to a healthier eating style. Perhaps it will show SOME of you (who ridiculously think my kids were BORN this well behaved) that all things are a process.
I tend to think I can do it all NOW. So: I throw out all food and buy the kind that has-to-be-prepared thinking (along with our first day of "real" school) I will ALSO puree nine kinds of veggies, freeze them and make three new recipes while simultaneously making turkey chili. And---that's how Chick-Fil-A came into the picture.
M can attest to my "dive right in" mentality. So, you will see my slow, painful process of ups and downs, starts and stops, successes and failures until we somehow just "seem" to have always eaten this healthy.
So as you see some failures you may feel the need to snicker, snoot and judge me...go ahead! But! In a year or two, all the new people I meet will say "Sure, it's easy when your kids were born that way AND it's easy to get them to eat healthy when they were raised on healthy food!" Hahahahaha but YOU will know and so must BELIEVE that what I say is true.
And you, all my old friends who know the truth of how I REALLY got there will sneak me some fries once in a while...(please)
3 comments:
I wondered how your day was going. :o)
You are such a mess--way too many things at once, girl! Of course, I've been doing the exact same thing, so who am I to talk?
I know all about the heathy-er eating *process*. sure, I managed to find what I consider to be the truth about sugar (which that it is at best not good for you and at worst it's an addictive, harmful substance)when the kids were little, so they were raised without ANY. But, *I* wasn't raised with no sugar. We rarely had copious amounts, but it was there and I spent more than a couple November 1st's sick as a dog from all the candy. So, it is a process, and not always an easy one, but you'll get there. Can't wait to see (and taste-- hint, hint)the pureed veggie recipes. Go Steph, Go!!
Am looking forward to seeing your process in motion. I'm soooo opposite - read the books, spend days thinking about the process, decide it's way too hard, and then do nothing. :)
Go girl!!
Change is always a process don't you think? There are some things that can happen quickly for us... putting down a cigarette and not touching another, switching from white to brown rice, switching to another product brand... but what you are doing takes time and is a process. Don't be so hard on yourself! You'll get where you want to be whether it's all the way there or halfway there and in a time period that works for you guys... at least you're trying so don't worry about naysayers or scoffers. It's YOUR family... why should it matter to anyone else anyway?? Other than watching a learning process and how it could apply to MY family. :)
If you only knew how many starts-stops-continuing now-3 steps forward- 2 steps back processes our family has gone through... sheesh! But we continue those things that really matter to us, even if it's a little different from what our start was aiming for. God is good...even in the "small" details of our lives!
I say "You go, girl" too!!
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