Glad I’m not the only one who eats her oatmeal with a baby spoon!

What a great quote! Going to save that one!

I completely agree with the thought of the day. As frustrating and hard as it is to fail at something it pushes you to learn more, try harder and be better the next time. Cheers to failing 🙂

I’m counting down to baseball season. Cannot wait!

Love that quote! That oatmeal sounds awesome, yum!

That oatmeal looks so delicious! I haven’t made stove top oats in a couple weeks, I need to do that again!

Haha I hate oatmeal mishaps! A few weeks ago I was eating oats in a pb jar and, of course, had to scrape every last bit of pb from the side of the jar. In my effort to scrape the thing clean, I splattered oatmeal all over myself!

I have failed many times….so YES there is power in trying again 🙂

LOVE me some oats!

I’m running a bit behind and so just read about The Naked Face Project. I will be very interested to see where this goes and reading your insights. I have been bothered by this idea for a while. I have a beautiful almost 17 year old daughter who wears quite a bit of makeup every day. She didn’t start out like that; it just sort of evolved. She used to wear very flattering and appropriately moderate makeup. She’s a dancer (both in school and outside of school) and so is very adept at doing stage makeup. Not long after she starting dancing on the drill team at school she started wearing more and more makeup to school, almost like she was on stage every day. Now she will not go anywhere without her full makeup, even if that means doing her whole face at 9:00 pm just so we can go to the drugstore for something. This really troubles me. She is beautiful, inside and out. Why is this so important to her? What can I do as her mom to help her see that she is beautiful just like she is? I try very hard not to focus on the physical beauty of my girls. I want them to value their insides more than their outsides so I rarely make comments about their physical beauty. I focus instead on complementing their character or their attitude or other things relating to their individual gifts. Do I need to change that? Should I be more supportive of their appearance? If so how do I do that without supporting the belief that what they look like equals who they are?? I will definitely be following you as you go through this next 60 days and I hope to gain insight through you about how to better support my girls in valuing who they are over what they look like. Come to think of it, I can use some of this to do a better job with my teenage son too. I don’t think boys are immune to distorted thinking in this area.

Ha! Preggo brain at it’s best!!

I cannot wait for Spring!!!

hahaha love it…. I wonder about myself sometimes too 😉
Heidi xo

Oatmeal is definitely one of my all time faves… and I never tire of seeing new variants!

when I was in college (the first time around) I had an 8am Calc class where the instructor wouldn’t allow food and sometimes I’d smuggle in oatmeal… oatmeal I made so incredibly viscous (it was strawberries and cream so still tasted yummy watered down) it would go in a take away coffee cup… well, one day I didn’t snap the lid on tightly enough and spilled it all down my front… busted.

Yumm-o. Oats. Nice.

I am also counting the days until spring. Going to school in Pitssburgh, I am sure you know how winters are in Cincinnati (since they are the same!) but it has not been a normal year! However, I am ready for some SUN!