And So The Sun Shines...

The sun is shining!!!! YIPEE!! Today’s weather was MUCH better than the previous 2 days. Sigh of relief over here!!

I felt a little rushed this morning even though I was pretty much on time so I broke into the President’s Choice prepared steel cut oats for breakfast.
This is the blueberry one and I was very pleased to see that there were more than 2 berries in there!!! Now, this was no homemade bowl of oats, but I still really enjoyed it! The texture was pudding like and it had a nice mild flavour. I bulked it up a wee bit with some Enjoy Life Foods Mountain Mambo Trail Mix.

Seeing as the portion was a little smaller than what I’m use to, I was pleasantly surprised that it kept me full for almost 5.5 hours!!! My regular oats don’t even keep me full that long!!

No gym for me today. I had to take a drive to CHSS (a local high school that teaches trades) to pick up a cookie order that I bought for the kids classes for Easter. Then I stopped off at the mall to pick up the baggies and extra chocolates so that I can get the grab bags ready tonight. Before I left work I ate the last few prunes;
And on the drive back I ate my baggie of green grapes;
No long after getting back to work, the fire alarm went off! There’s still quite a bit of construction going on in the building and I guess one of the guys set them alarm off. We spent about 15 windy minutes outside before we were cleared to go back in! Thank goodness it wasn’t crappy out like Monday & Tuesday!

You can imagine how happy I was to have packed some Peanut Lentil soup for lunch!
That took the chill out of my bones!!! Lunch dessert was a Coconut Lime Oat bar!
As soon as the kids and I got home from our day, I changed and got my “shredding” in! I must say that I can already do a few more push ups than 5 days ago! And that’s a good thing because I need to do 3 sets of them tonight. Overall, I'm really impressed with this workout DVD. I feel like I'm packing a good workout into less than 30 minutes.

I made pork sausages for dinner but as soon as I saw the fat content on the nutrition label, I couldn't bring myself to eat one so I made a chicken breast for myself. I served it with a side of steamed veggies, 2 Dr. Praeger sweet potato pancakes and some spicy curry tapenade for dipping...
My sweet end was a Cravings lemon cheesecake;
Then all went down hill for a slice of time when my hubby opened this:
The carrot cake that he ordered from the high school. How good does that look??? I thought so too so I cut myself this tiny piece...
THEN, I went back for another, larger piece! It was just SO good with all those plump raisins, crunchy walnuts and moist spicy cake!!! In my defense, I did scrape the icing off....too sweet for me. UGH....I feel like a beluga whale right now but I enjoyed it and now I'm done with it! He also bought a box of jam cookies...
Thankfully, these do nothing for me and are in no danger of meeting my belly!

Once the gorge fest was over, the kids and I set to work the grab bags for their friend's tomorrow. Here are the 3 shapes of cookies that we got;
I ordered 4 dozen and by the time we were done, one was left. That is going into my hubby's lunch! After all that cake digests some, I will be doing my push ups (and maybe some more crunches!!) before I get lunches ready for tomorrow. I should probably get out for a walk, but there's a pretty stiff wind out there right now. Not fun. I don't think much good is on TV tonight so I'll probably end up reading for a while. Hope everyone's evening will be more exciting than that!!!

Before I go, there are 2 great giveaways that I wanted to mention!! Karen @ To Be the Whole Package has some Honest Food goodies up for grabs and Sarah @ Tales of Expansion has gone NUTS!!! Go check them out!!

Bye for now!!