All the kids are out of school on now, but life hasn't slowed down and we haven't had a break yet. Which is fine. First the ski trip and then today we left for a matinee performance of the Savior of the World at the Conference Center Theater. Since Corey did the ski trip yesterday, he said he'd stay home with Owen and Daniel and I should go to the Savior of the World performance. This is becoming a bit of a Christmas tradition. We went years ago as a treat from my parents, and then we went with our frineds from Brazil in 2015 and we treated my parents last year. Corey got tickets for them in October, but never got around to calling to invite them until this morning. You know how life gets... Luckily they could come! So my Mom is behind Joseph, my Dad behind Abi, and you'll also see Wes and Mel there, and Hyrum and Ethan on the row in front of them.
It's a really lovely play, and I was already teary in the first act. Zacharias and Elizabeth, longing for children. But, he says to her "You... we... have not be chosen to have children." That was their trial, but Elizabeth wouldn't give up hope. It's just beautiful. Corey struggles a little more with the stress and mess of our large family than I do. Which is understandable... there were 7 kids in my family growing up and I'm the 2nd oldest, so our life now feel pretty similar and familiar. Corey, however, grew up as the youngest of 3 children. After watching the play, tonight I teased him "You... we... have been chosen to have children." It's hard, but it's worth it. We are very blessed. I know so many people who long for a child/children. Again, it's hard, but it's good. Although, another thought from the play... and I know they are all actors, but man, the Savior's mother Mary, she is just soooo happy and has such a good attitude all the time! It's a bit ridiculous. I'm shaking my head at it, but also jealous at the same time. I want to be like that. I wish I always had a smile plastered on my face and a cheerful attitude. She reminded me of my friend Rachael. Just a little too happy to be normal! (Just kidding, you know I love you Rachael.) I want to be happy like Mary, and happy like Rachael. Something to think about for a 2018 resolution for myself I think!
My 16 year old Ethan wanted to drive on the way home. I didn't let him. Sorry buddy, I just struggle with it. He was making us laugh during the drive by pretending he was flying like Superman. Most of the drive on the freeway, he just had his arms straight out over the dashboard, but as we got close to home, he put the down the window so he could fly with the wind at his face.
He was screaming - "It's soooo cold!!! My hands!!!! Ahhh! I can't....!!" Funny guy.
Tomorrow is Sunday. We just have sacrament meeting and then head home. Elder Christofferson and his wife are speaking to our ward and a neighboring ward. It will be a real treat.
Today was a fun family ski day!! Last night as we drove up and I noticed the total lack of snow anywhere, I wasn't sure if it was going to work out. But thankfully there was just enough (with some help from the snow maker). They also had a discount cause the snow was so sparce, bonus! Not too cold, not a huge resort so no worries about kids getting lost in the woods, it was great.
Here are a few shots of the day - everyone waking up in the hotel, Owen in the murphy bed. Owen! Are you ready to PaRtY!?! (Silence...)
Lily!! Ready to party!?! No. Silly girl, she brought her personal fan on the trip, funny. You know it's cold outside, right Lily? For some reason fans are a priority in our household, even in winter.
Looks like Daniel's not gonna be hitting the slope either.
Daniel was so cute. I love seeing little kids in big beds. It makes them look like little royalty to me. Daniel, a little prince alone in his big comfortable bed.
SO! This is how the day went. Corey and I went to an 8:30 am presentation with our timeshare so we could learn more about all our benefits for being owners and so they could try to sell us something or other and so we could get a free gift card of $100 (could be $1000, ooh!) Breakfast was provided. I ate eggs. And sausage. And I little bit of bacon. I also ate potatoes, but I'm not feeling good about myself or the upcoming holiday. It feels like life it out of control, and so my diet gets out of control. I don't want to eat sausage and bacon or eggs, but it was there in front of me and we're on a vacay and the only other option is marshmallow cereal back at the room, so might as well... I'm afraid I might be "might as well"-ing a lot over this Christmas break. doh. So, presentation was fine, we didn't buy anything, we didn't win the thousand bucks, but the $100 helped buy the kids lunch today over at Wold Mountain. We got back to the room shortly after 9:30. No one was ready to ski. We spent an hour helping everyone find their gloves and coats and mittens. You'd think things wouldn't get misplaced after less than 24 hours here, but oh well. They all went skiing around 10:30 and I stayed at the room to clean up, pack up, and load up the car. We had two rooms, our room where we stayed with the little ones was easy to pick up. The other room not as much. I'm really hoping we didn't lose any puzzle pieces! I had it all packed up by check out time at noon, and we headed over to the resort.
Lily was a good helper watching her little brothers as I went back and forth to put things in the car. She didn't want to go skiing for whatever reason. I think we have another homebody on our hands.
Owen fell asleep on the drive over to the ski resort.
Thanks Lil!
She stayed in the car with the kids while I went to find Corey and figure out the how and who of our kid swap. Natalie was skiing with Corey. She looked soooo cute. Pink cheeks, she is just adorable. I love her little voice.
The kids came to grab a snack from me (Yeah, cold cereal!)
Ethan grabbed his speaker, Joseph undressed and got ready to head home with me. Check out Joseph's good pole pass to Mel!
Wes giving me some action shots. Yeah Wes, ski champion of the world!
Corey said Joseph was a great Dad to Sophi, letting her ski between his legs, it was really sweet. Corey took a lot of photos, and videos, I'll update with them later. But he didn't get one of Joseph and Sophi, so I went over to try and recreate the moment a little bit, so we can tell Sophi next year when Joseph is gone on his mission "Remember last year when Joseph was here? He helped you ski? That was so fun." Yet another "last" for our Joseph who will soon be flying from the nest.
We decided that Natalie would come with me. Corey also decided that he would take Owen. "But he just fell asleep... if you wake him from a nap, I fear he shall be cranky for you. "No, I want to do it." I tried to talk him out of it, convinced that it would ruin the rest of the ski day, but Corey insisted. Ok, your call! Natalie came back to the car with me to swap out the skis and give Owen her snowpants. She showed me how she skis - "You put your arms out like this!"
Corey got Natalie undressed and into the car...
and I woke up Owen and brought him out to his BFF Corey. Corey downed some eggnog and now they're ready for fun! (I hope!!!)
I took a lap around the little parking lot to say goodbye to everyone again, and I could hear Owen crying, I went over to help to see if there was anything I could do. He was NOT happy. "Sweetie, are you sure about this...?" "I got it." Once again, I had my concerns, but I left him there on the mountain with a crying toddler.
Good luck sweetie!
Now we're home and at 4:30 I got a WhatsApp video of Owen skiing, it is so cute!! How about that - an hour later and Corey's skiing backwards with the camera on Owen, Owen is totally laughing. Yay! Success! He's also wearing Corey's gloves, so maybe he was fussy at first cause his hands were cold. (His were among the mittens we couldn't find). Corey, I'm totally impressed, you're amazing. I'm sure Corey got lots of cute pictures and videos, I'll try to upload/update with those later. I'm not sure when they'll be back, but I hope they soak up the snow while they can, cause it is a lot of work for our big group to have fun! Great job sweetie on making this memory happen. Joseph and I got home in time for him to just be a little bit late for call time at his concert. We got a few treats tonight from neighbors, so nice. But my resolve is not strong, so I ate too many. Natalie and Lily helped me. Luckily a big teenager is here and I made him take a plate full with him. Ah, I was doing so good. I need to try and relax and enjoy the kind gestures. Happy holidays! Christmas is just around the corner, almost there!
We are at Wolfcreek up in Eden Utah tonight. Knowing that this is Joseph's last winter with us (we've got so many "last"s coming!) Corey wanted to make sure we got in a family ski day, so he planned this trip out for us a few months ago. Bad news is: there is NO snow. On the drive up here, there was seriously nothing. It was dark, so I couldn't see up the mountains, but all along the road, my headlights didn't show anything but brush in front of us and on the shoulders of the road. I did not see a pile of snow anywhere. I hope our ski rentals don't go to waste and that this ski day tomorrow works out.
Let's see... we've got Vegan pizza on the menu, Corey got apple cider and egg nog and a chicken pot pie. I grabbed a treat of Marshmallow Cereal for breakfast tomorrow, which Hyrum was happy to see is not made with milk or eggs, so he's ready to chow down on that. I don't buy that junk anymore though! I know I've said it many times before, I really don't this time! Except for today. But still, good job me, go team. Still, I have been snacking on it tonight. And I had some egg nog. I can feel myself slipping into the festive food overload of the holidays, doh.
What else... Corey took the kids to the resort rec center, I stayed at the room with Daniel and made dinner. When they got back I got out a puzzle, which is one thing that's been on my list that I want to do with the kids that we never get to do.
Owen was so cute, he tried so hard. It's a puzzle pictures of a ton of bouncy balls. We didn't get very far on it. Lily did a good job. I didn't make much progress. Hard to do a puzzle with Owen and Daniel around. I really hope we don't lose any pieces to it! Seriously, every puzzle I get out, we always lose one piece in the process, so annoying. I brought two puzzles. The other puzzle was "accidentally" opened up in the car. Yeah, that one's just going in the trash now, cause I know we'll never find all the pieces to that one now.
We are going skiing tomorrow. Well, Corey and the kids are. I'll be chilling with Daniel for sure and some other kids. I am heading back home at 1:00 with Joseph and three other kids (I need a full car so that Corey doesn't have an over-full van when he heads back) so that Joseph can be in Orem at 3:30 for call time before a Crescent Band Performance at the Scera Theather. It's been a busy holiday and the break will still be a little busy, but it's nice to have some time together just us.
Today I ran more errands than ever before in my life. As that little framed thing from Hobby Lobby says "Messy bun and getting stuff done." I am home today after a major Christmas Shopping Binge. The older kids still had school today, but the younger kids are out, so Abi was my amazing baby sitter while I ran out this morning. I checked the weather last night: there was a storm forecast to be coming in at 2, so I left early and with great efficiency as I trying to race the weather (it was win-dy!). My original list wasn't this long, but here are all the places I ended up going to:
Home Depot to return the other toilet handle
DI to drop off donations
Ski N See to buy ski gloves for tomorrow
Red Balloon to buy Beanie Boos for Christmas
Spoons N Spice - to buy a few good cutting knives and nice small silverware for the toddlers
Kid to Kid - a few Christmas dresses (75% off now!) and toys for Owen and Daniel
Good Earth - nutritional yeast for Hyrum's Vegan Pizzas
Office Max - Tul pens for the stocking stuffers
DSW - nice black shoes for Joseph, he knows so it's okay for me to write it here. I had to ask him what size, I'm taking a gamble that they'll fit okay and be comfortable for him.
Ross - art stuff for kids and a few other things
TJMaxx - sheets for Corey and I, few stocking stuffers
Trader Joe's - my first time going in there ever. Got dried fruits and nuts for some healthy Christmas Day snacks
Target - grabbed a few things
Then I went home to relieve Abi. It was 1:00 and I would need to go get Skyline carpool in a bit. Wesley had a LBB performance and Joseph had a sectional, so Joseph had to take him, but J had to leave right after school to a Madrigal performance, so another mom did my carpool today, I went and got Wes from school, and I've been driving the Fiesta all day, which was fine before the storm, but I pick up Wes and had to take Wes to meet Joseph down town so they could get to American Fork in time. As we started to drive down town, the flurries began. I was getting worried but prayed and we met Joseph in time, then I headed home, buuuut, since it was on the way and I promised myself that I'd be fast, I stopped by the Murray Costco for food. I started to fill my cart with veggies, but then saw they didn't have any Vegan Pizza! Hyrum might die, so I'm gonna have to go to Costco again anyway to Sandy to see if they have it - but I'll have to wait until later, so, blah, I hurried and put back the things in my car - just like 6 veggie things, then I ran back to the car. So that was errand 14. Then I came down State Street and went by #15 Toys R Us for a few legos. Then I was on my way home, cause I didn't trust my tin-can of a vehicle to make it much longer in the snow, plus it's windshield wipers are terible. I got home and parked in the street so I could hurry and shovel the driveway before driving on it - which is my #1 winter rule - do NOT under (almost) anycircumstance drive on our north facing driveway if there is snow on it without clearing off the snow first.
Abi helped me, then Hyrum came out and wanted to go to the store. Then he and Abi started a snowball fight while I worked. I came to Abi's aide and put a few shovel-fuls of snow on Hyrum's head. Then he threw a snowball at me! He got me right in the head and ear!
Well, after that second pile of snow down his shirt, I admit I deserved it. We had dinner - Hyrum made due without vegan pizza, and I watched Corey chase the little kids around.
Our house looks pretty good considering I've been gone all day. Abi gets all the credit.
Those little boys are so cute. Then I told Corey I had to leave him with little kids, cause Hyrum and Wes really wanted to finish their shopping. Boys, I've already been out all day! I don't want to go again! But they ignored my please and we went. So my last errand for the day was taking them to Target for my second time, I snapped a pic at the check out - feeling I should document this somehow, cause that makes #16 errands in one day. And that is a lot!
I guess I am a little impressed with myself, but I also don't feel very well right now, like not physically, just kinda empty inside. I guess I felt like I spent my day doing all this shopping just to do it, kinda, cause that is our culture? I mean I did get some things they want and need, but a lot was unnecessary and will just be more stuff to pick up after Christmas has come and gone. My kids don't need this much, and heaven knows my messy house doesn't want/need any more things inside it for me to shuffle in bins. We should be saving more or paying off music tours and stuff. But oh well. I guess I can return it if we need to return anything. I'm not sure what Corey's bought, we have not coordinated at all. We'll see how this goes! Another quote from the Hobby Lobby wall art collection:
I hope we're making the right things the priority.
So I woke up this morning to wake up the kids, and Joseph wasn't in his bed. I was quickly able to find him, as he was asleep on the stairs. Me - looking down the stairs at 5:35 this morning.
Ugh, I hate it when the lights are left on all night! I walked down the stairs to make oatmeal, stood above him, and took a picture. Cause kids are just so cute when they're sleeping.
You can see my toes at the left of the picture there, but I rotated that one 90 degrees clockwise. Later today when the kids and Corey were home, talking about how tired they are and how ready they are for the break, I told them where I found Joseph sleeping this morning and showed them this picture - before being rotated.
They were amazed~ "Wow! He really slept on the stair like that?!?!" Seeing this picture, and knowing it was taken from me above him as I walked down (see my toes at the bottom of the pic) I didn't see it how they were seeing it. They all through that he was upside down, like sleeping on the stairs on his head. Corey -"Yea, that's what I thought too!" No, he's not that tired that he'd be able to sleep like that! Plus all that stuff in the bins would be falling down all over - He wasn't upside down on his head, he was just on the stairs. Then I looked at the picture again, okay, I guess I can see it how you're seeing it now.
So there another post about my sleepy senior. You're almost done with the week, Joseph! Two more days and then I promise we'll let you sleep over the break!
Today at church it was a Christmas Musical program. The primary kids sang, Melodie did a flute number of Silent Night. I was able to peek into the chapel for that, but missed most the rest of the program, cause Daniel's been getting a bit noisy at church these days. Luckily I've got teenagers that are usually more than happy to take them out of the chapel where their noise isn't as disruptive. I took Daniel out today, Natalie and Owen followed. There is a little glass corridor between the outside of the building and the side lobby, and my 3 and other toddlers that were out with their parents all went into the glass room and felt like they had their own space. They were free to make noise and be loud, and parents were happy cause we could still see them and watch them. Another dad there made a funny comment, as the kids screamed and tripped and toddled around - "It's like the drunk tank!" We thought that was funny. Kids are kinda like little drunk people. Ethan came out to help and thought he was super clever when he put his phone, with the Duplo train game running on it, up against the glass.
Daniel sat down with his bottle, ready to play... and wasn't quite able to figure out why the touch screen wasn't working. Funny
Cute little guy in the drunk tank. Abi and Mel also had a piano recital today. Corey and I went alone and were able to enjoy the lovely Christmas songs.
Mel played Carol of the bells, and Abi played ______ (help me remember Abi!) Today is my Dad's birthday. I only have two cousins on his side, and one of them, Anna, was in town from California and it was nice to be able to go over there and visit with her and two of her friends. Corey had left to deliver a Sub for Santa gift with half of the kids. We did that with Corey's siblings and parents. I'll try to upload the pictures Corey took later, it was a great experience for all of them. It was great that Corey went cause the single mom we subbed for only spoke Spanish. While they were gone, I went over to my parent's house and I took Owen with me. He was cute and shy as usual, but happily ate the brownies and cookies my parents had. I tried to keep him quiet with my phone, and he got off the train game somehow and found a video of Daniel that he thought was just a riot. Beka took a Marco Polo video of Owen laughing at the video of Daniel, it was pretty cute.
I'll update later with pictures Corey took at the sub for Santa.
It's Star Wars day for us. Corey had tickets for a "Last Jedi" showing that Veracity was hosting. (That's who Corey does consulting for). He got 6 tickets and with that was able to take all the kids that wanted to go. Mel was at GMS so she didn't go, and Joseph was busy too, but he saw it on a date last night so he was okay with that. They all enjoyed the movie very much, and bonus is that Corey took them, which means they all went out to lunch after, $40 bucks. I feel like such a Scrooge sometimes. I stayed home with little kids. I did a deep cleaning of the tile grout on the main floor today, I am so pleased with myself. I'm not finished with all the floor, but the parts of the floor that I finished look sooo good. I cleaned the floor for like 5 hours. But very happy with my work. I wouldn't have been able to do it as easily if they were all here.
After they got home I was very clear that they were not allowed to ruin it for me. I had two tickets for tonight that my brother got me - through Homie, which I guess is how they sold their home before they moved to Texas this summer. So I got two complementary tickets through that and was planning to take Mel. I invited her when I picked her up from the bus stop, but then she decided to go and be all responsible on me and said she had a lot of homework that she needed to do. Boo, fine. So I took Natalie instead. I told her to get ready, and she did. This is what she wore - (Will update with pic in a few...)
My tickets were down at Thanksgiving Point, and there was also a storm rolling in, so I was anxious to give ourselves plenty of time to get there. In my effort to hurry things along, I told her not to worry about a coat - she had long sleeves and we'd be okay if we hurried out of the car. When we got there, the parking lot was so crowded that I didn't find a spot - we had to park in a business complex south of the theaters, then I got to carry Natalie on my back, cause in my hurry I also didn't stop her from wearing heels, which are not good for toddlers to run in. So, it is usually windy there at the point of the mountain, but it was crazy windy with the storm and the snow. It looked like a blizzard. But as we thought of the pioneers and how they braved their storms, we were able to make it to our seats with time to spare. It was a great show. And nothing I heard the kids say spoiled it, it was a great movie and it was fun to watch it with Natalie. She stayed awake the whole time, sat on my lap, and ate happily accepted offerings of our fellow movie goers' popcorn and licorice. She's a cutie.
I was cleaning up in the side room this morning before the kids left to school and found this cute book written by Sophi. I smiled and laughed as I read the back cover and then just had to open up the book to find out what it was all about. Title: Sophia and Her Family
Written and illustrated by Sophia Wride, Published by Hyrum Wride (laughing, Hyrum, you're a good brother.) First page: This book is about Sophia and her family. She loves her family and they love her. Her favorite people in her family are her Dad and Mom and Daniel and everybody else. That means the whole family loves each other.
All my brothers and sisters are Joseph, Melodie, Ethan, Hyrum, Wesley, Abigail, Lilian, ME, Natalie, Owen & Daniel. and my Mom and Dad are Tiffanie and Corey. She loves her family so much she doesn't want to ever leave it. THE END.
About the Author: Sophia Wride lives in Utah in Granite. She is a Mormon. She is 6 years old and goes to Elementary school with her sisters. She is in kindergarten. She loves her family and Jesus.
So cute Sophi. I had to get a picture of her with her first publication. Super cute, sweetie. Your family loves you too!
I woke up Joseph early this morning and have been recovering from it all day. Luckily for Joseph, I didn't have to resent him for this sleeptime interruption because Owen took that blame for him by waking me up at 3:20. And he was WIDE awake. He began talking and playing with toys in our room and I was worried he'd wake up Daniel. I can lay on the couch and rest if it's just Owen, but not if Daniel is awake too, so I hurried out of bed and grabbed him and hushed him as I took him downstairs. I started my morning routine early - making oatmeal and loading the dishwasher and waited for 3:45 to come so I could offer my assistance to my sleep deprived and busier than anything high school senior. (Yes, I'm still waking them up, despite my I'm-not-doing-this-anymore vow on Sunday...) He had to be in American Fork at the Soundhouse at 4:45 for a recording for KSL television, which may I say I think is just wrong. Whoever is awake and watching television at 5 am, just stop. Joseph texted my mother though, who has told us she wakes up at 3 everyday. She turned on the tv and saw him. She felt like it was sad that she didn't get to hear more cause they would introduce the band to play a number right before cutting to commercials. Anyway, Joseph struggled for 15 minutes getting up. Owen helped me around 3:57 for the final wake up call. Poor Joseph. They are all really looking forward to the winter break.
Owen went and picked up a pair of socks and gave it to Joseph. "Thanks Owen..."
Come on Joe. 3:58. He got ready quickly and made it out the door in time.
I told him to call me if he got drowsy driving, which happens to me all the time. He texted that he made it down okay. He called me on his drive back home cause he was getting sleepy. I was trying to rest so I wasn't much help conversation wise, but I did my best and got him through 15 minutes of it. He came home and crashed for and hour and a half before their next performance at 10 o'clock at South Town for the FM 100 Christmas Concert Series.
He was finished around 12:30 made it to school for the end of the last period and then had more performances and things after school. He's a busy busy guy. I've joked that he is going to really enjoy going on a mission because of the rule to go to bed at 10:30, I'm sure that will feel amazing to him. Working yourself silly is probably a good way to prepare for a mission. And for motherhood. I'm probably sleep deprived. I do fine if I'm up and moving all day, which I usually am. But if I sit down and have to hold still, like in the temple or in the car or if I read to the girls... it's a fight to keep alert. In the car I can slap myself and call someone. Reading I can stop and get up and get a drink. I haven't figured out how to stay awake when I'm sitting through a temple session. Anyway, I today I spent most of the morning trying to and pretending I could catch a few zzz's. Didn't work out so well, I'm lucky that I don't have homework and test to study for like Joseph. Here is a picture of him on Monday night studying at the kitchen table. Just an average night for Joseph, doing homework in a tuxedo.
He said he would like to have changed, but the uncomfortable clothing helps him stay awake. Been there, but really glad I'm not there anymore. I'm going to try to go to bed early tonight.
I'm supposed to talk about Vegan stuff today, cause it's Vegan Vednesday! Ok. Food wise, I feel like my tastebuds have turned a corner. My weekly personal grocery list now mostly consists of making sure I've got enough goods to have GBOMBS everyday, per Dr. Joel Fuhrman's recommendation. GBOMBS are the cancer fighting foods that Fuhrman says you should eat everyday. Those are: Greens, Beans, Onions, Mushrooms, Berries, and Seeds. So I've been making all sorts of weird GBOMB salads, and just as weirdly, they all taste really good to me. Like - I bought swiss chard for the first time ever! I was slicing up a leaf to add to a salad and I chewed on a leaf of it raw just to see what happened. Last time I tried swiss chard was over the summer when I cut some from my parent's garden. Totally made me gag. But not this time! I chewed on quite a bit of it and it was ok! Plus I got the Red Chard, so it's really pretty with that bright red stem and veins, would be beautiful in a Christmas salad. I just mixed it with beans and avocado and mushrooms for a salad.
My second go at a red chard salad - Beans, mushrooms, yellow pepper, mustard, avocado
I'm not craving junk or sweets at all, just really looking forward to my breakfast bowls and my salads. Breakfast most days looks like this - a 1/2 cup of oatmeal or brown rice with blueberries (the second B in GBOMBS), flax (the S), freeze dried strawberries and a splash of almond milk. If I'm lucky enough that the kids haven't eaten all the bananas, I'll slice up some of those too.
And here are a few more of my salads:
That one above - Greens, northern Beans, red Onion, Mushrooms, cucumber, tomato, flax Seed and some avocado and salsa. Another day's BOM salad below, got my Beans, Onions and Mushrooms in a salad with some radishes and drizzled with a little bit of teriyaki sauce.
This one is a burger salad - Green spinach,, northern Beans again, Mushrooms, Onions, and also yellow peppers, pickles, and I used yellow mustard as my dressing.
Another Teriyaki bowl - Butter beans, bell peppers, cucumbers, onions, radishes, mushrooms. Also really good with Alfalfa sprouts! This is one of mine and Hyurm's favorites.
So, if you're wondering what in the world we poor humans can eat if we don't eat mean, milks, eggs, and cheese, those are just a few examples. Eat whole foods to improve your health, spare animals, and maybe save the planet, all at the same time!
I saw this video yesterday on facebook of Neal Barnard, M.D. discussing his book “The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy." Very very good basic stuff. You should watch it! Other vegan things from my inbox:
Breaking Medical News: New American Heart Association data found that a vegan diet reduces inflammation linked to heart disease better than the AHA's recommended diet.
Have you been told that healthy, delicious plant-based meals are expensive? Think again! The Physicians Committee's Lee Crosby, R.D., took the SNAP challenge to eat on a budget of $4.15 a day and described some inexpensive meals on Good Morning Washington.
I'll get off of my soapbox now. I'll end this now by encouraging you to go enjoy some GBOMBS today and everyday. Until next Wednesday, this is Tiff the aspiring vegan signing off.
