What did I do to have a kid like this?!

I went to my oldest sons football practise and drop off pizzas and soda. After setting everything up the group had about a total of 20 pizzas from Little Ceasers and 10 two liter sodas. As soon as the coaches let the kids go the pizzas were gone in 30 minutes. They were not gone all by eating alone, the kids were throwing sodas at each other and pizzas. Don't get me wrong boys will be boys , but I was raised that we DO NOT waste food. My son and I helped a couple other mothers pick up empty cups and pizza pieces over the park. After loading him into the car and heading home I started the conversation that almost mad me cry.

"I am so glad that you are disrespectful like some of the other kids on your team. I just can't believe they were throwing sodas and pizzas at each other. Than to leave all of the garbage! Wow, just wow. I appreciate you stopping what you were doing and helped with cleaning up. You are amazing!"

My son just looked at me and nodded his head. He than explained about his last game and how many kids weren't happy that they were being benched because of their grades and having their parents upset at the coaches. I just drove and listened. He explained further about how some of the kids acted at school and that they might not be able to play this Saturday. I nodded and explained how important grades are to high school sports and college and work. This is the part that made my head swing. "Well hopefully all the work that I have put in during lunch will work and (his friend) will be able to play." I asked him " What do you mean?"   He looked at me and seemed a little uncomfortable but was able to wait it out. He explained that he was helping a kid on his football team with his school work so he can play. What an amazing young man he has become. I hope that through the teenage years he won't change his attitude on helping others.

I have been extremely busy with life besides taking my son back and forth to football. We decided to start repainting our front door and garage and the results are amazing!

Another project the I have been working on has been cleaning out my closet and getting rid of some older clothes that I don't wear anymore.  I realized how many tanks I have. I have so many that I am unable to hang them up in my closet so I had them in a drawer. Which means that they are consistently wrinkled. So I used my deport import Shower curtain rings to hang up my tank tops using one hanger and I can easily remove the tank tops from the rings.

Then to top of everything else I am doing, I decided to start meal prepping again to help out. I had some containers from the times I ordered them from a local company. I found a few recipes from an ebook called "The Essential Bodybuilding Cookbook by Ryan Powell.  It has sections on how to start,  eating to build muscles and to burn fat. It also has  breakfast, poultry, other meats, vegetarian & vegan, seafood, soups, sides, salads, snack, shakes, drinks, and desserts. There are many options on recipes and most are everyday items, without that weird seasoning from some country that we never heard of.

I used my new meat thermometer from for the the Cajun Chicken recipe, and the Chicken Burgers.
The thermometer is AMAZING. It has a base and the device with the screen. The best part is the probe can be in the chicken (or meat) on the Barbecue while I take the screen with me inside and prep the vegetables will making sure the chicken is getting over cooked and dry out. I had perfect chicken and perfect turkey meatloaves. The veggies were also perfect. So with everything going on this was a perfect way to end the last few weeks.

Why do we have to workout?!

Don't get me wrong, I love to get a good sweat on. I really do love it, but there are those few days that  we just want to lay down and catch up on netflix, and we just don't feel like going to the gym.

 If we follow through with those days, one will lead into two, and two will lead into three so on so forth. And before you know it it has been 3 months since you have walked through the gym doors. Okay maybe that isn't everyone else, but that has been me the last three months. 

I am ashamed of myself. I have actually felt hate toward myself because I have body issues and without working out it gets harder for me. I visualize myself and pick myself apart.  I know this is unhealthy and I have tried to just love myself the way I am, but this is an issue that I have and been trying to work on it. 

Running has been a vice for me helping with my temper and body issues. After hurting my knee running has been come and go. But i have tried many different knee braces and this has helped, not the great but has been pretty good. I was able to try a compression sleeve on my knee and it was nice. 

I can't wait to use it in the gym on squats, that will have to be in another blog...