It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas....

I had a fantastic sleep last night! I was lights out by 10:30 and slept solidly through until 8am. DD had a restful night, too! We both needed it. I wasn't hungry right when I woke up like usual, so I puttered around the house for a bit folding laundry, making beds and such. When I did eat, I decided that a nice, normal bowl of oats is what I wanted!


-1 cup water
-1/2 Flax Seed Porridge
-blueberries
-cinnamon
-1 tsp Mighty Maple PB (OK, so maybe that part wouldn't be considered "normal"!)


I enjoyed this bowl in the quiet of my kitchen while gazing out my big kitchen window at the gently falling snow. So calming which is a nice change from the usual morning rush!

Last night I was really craving grapes so I had a fair size bowl with the "bum" end of Weight Watcher WW bread coated in a smear of PB & Co cinnamon swirl PB.


Doesn't that look pretty?

We went for our weekly visit to the farm after breakfast. No much new to report there. For me, it was an extension of my peaceful breakfast because for the most part the kids were preoccupied playing MarioKart on the Wii. While there I had a coffee (mmm..) and 2 chocolate chip rice cakes. I forgot my camera at home, but I'm sure everyone knows what rice cakes look like! :)

We came home in time for lunch. I had some extra polenta from supper last night in the fridge and there was about a 1/3 cup of egg whites that I needed to use. I decided to try popping the polenta in the toaster (thank God it didn't fall apart)and I nuked the egg whites. Once on my plate, I topped it with a spoonful of salsa and a sprinkle of grated Parmesan cheese.


It all turned out pretty tasty!

After lunch we pulled out all our Christmas tree stuff and got to work decorating it. Every year my hubby assembles our (fake) tree and strings the lights. I then hand out the ornaments to the kids and they place them where ever they want on the tree.


Once the kids go to bed, I usually re-arrange the ornaments so that there's not 3-4 per branch. :) This picture is obviously a "before". I seem to have misplaced my tree skirt, though! If I can't find it soon, I'll have to buy another one.

My MIL bought, then lent me, the Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009 game for the Wii! I was super excited to try it out! It's one of the items on my wish list for Christmas. I was confused when I first popped it in because it told me to use the Wii balance board but nothing seemed to work. My hubby got me to try without the board and off I went. I picked a 30 minute "weight loss" workout that really had my heart pumping. A few of the sections still confused me, though. For instance, one activity requires that you pick up and throw paint balls. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to pick up the balls so I just stood there. That sucked. All in all, my heart rate was definitely up and in the end it said that I burned 158 calories in the half hour. I'm sure I will do much better than that once I've got it all figured out. I'm on the fence on whether or not I like it, though. Wii Fit is still my fave!

Supper tonight tonight was baked tofu (re heated) steamed frozen veggies and a sweet potato that I quartered and microwaved for 5 minutes.



I think my eyes were bigger than my stomach because I couldn't finish the whole sweet potato. I saved some for lunch tomorrow.

We've just come back from my parents house and I'm getting ready to scurry downstairs to watch the Amazing Race!

Bye for now!