Where's the Weekend?

Where is the weekend already? I dont feel like it can get here soon enough! I am such a bum lately but all I want to do is relax and spend time with my family! Don't get me wrong I love my job but I am in a funk and getting out of bed to go to work lately has seemed like the biggest chore ever! I feel like from the time I drop my girls off at daycare I am racing to see how fast I can pick them up because I feel like there is never enough time in the day to spend with them! The bitter sweet thing is that they absolutely LOVE their daycare and they enjoy being there and playing with their friends and so sometimes I feel torn on picking them up early to spend time with me or letting them play those last few moments.

Anyways, this weekend I am on call (blah) but I am hoping that the on call phone wont ring off the wall because in my attempt to be somewhat, "Green Thumbish" I want to work outside and try and plant some greenage and beef up my yard. My fabulous neighbors are always working in their yard and they make mine look like a junk yard. I swear they mow their yard like clock work and they know the day its gonna rain and mow their yard the day before so that it doesnt grow like crazy after a good thunderstorm. I, on the other hand, am not going tto mow prematurely haha. I like to feel accomplished so I choose to wait until i cant see my cankles when I walk through it and then I feel like its time to mow :) I need to get over this and add "Yard work" to that little calender that i dont use haha.

On Wednesdays, I help teach a young girls class at church. This segment of our teaching is on keeping ourselves healthy as a whole because our body is a temple. I think I have benefited from this more than they have. If you saw my previoius blog then you know that I have started this advocare 24 day challenge and I am loving it. Its been a week and although I am refusing to step on the scale until the end of the challenge, I can already see small changes! For one my nails have hit a growth spurt and they are stronger than they have ever been! I also have so much more energy, I dont feel "sluggish" like I have when I was consumed with eating junk and sugary drinks. If anything, this is definitely teaching me a new way of life and I am loving everything about it!

Anyways, before I got off on how awesome Advocare is, I was talking about my Wednesay night church class. Tonight we talked about keeping our minds healthy and not full of junk. and of course what other verse fits better than Phillippians 4:8. When I was talking to the girls I couldnt help but think how clouded we as adults can let our minds get! I have been battling keeping my mind in a good place for awhile. Things go on at work, school, home, and even things that dont effect me directly, but things that might be effecting a coworker who calls to tell me their problems has seemed to be bogging me down. Its so important to train our minds and ourselves to refuse to let the things of the world bog us down and cloud our vision that God has for us. God doesnt intend for me to walk around all day being worried about who is mad at me, or worried about who is talking about me, or worried about what bills have to be paid. He states over and over again that he has good things in store for me and worrying doesnt help anything, therefore I need to remember always what an awesome God we serve and not let the things of this world bog us down!

Bye Bye Plus Size Barbie

Well... Well... Well... it has been way long since I have posted to this "blogworld" but things have calmed down tons in the Napier household and I am back in the game :) However, I have been a faithful reader of all of my favorite blogs in my absence of post! (just wanted to throw that in there.) Anyways, if you know anything about me, you know that I am extremely hard on myself and have low self esteem which has stemed from weight 40lbs heavier now than before I had my two beautiful babies and underwent a hysterectomy. It's hard to be this big ball of flubber (especially when you are married to Mr. Gym GQ himself). I have been the worst yo yo dieter, (well almost the worst I have at least one friend that I can think of that is worse than me but her name will remain unidentified to protect our friendship haha) so after following my friend Danielle's blog (http://www.butlerpartyof2.com/) I have made a committed decision to no longer yo yo diet, but to change my lifestyle. Not only because I am sick of being "plus size barbie" but because i know that my "body is a temple of the holy spirit" and i am sick of feeding it junk and putting myself at higher risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. As a christian, and a nurse, and the wife of Mr. Meathead himself, i know better, and deserve better than what I have been offering. So with the help of Advocare's 24 day challenge (which I will start tuesday) and my new "lifestyle" I am on the road to a more healthy, happy, hotter me!

Here is some proof that I am dedicated. Me and my hot little meat head headed to the grocery store to pick up some new "health" food. I have to admit that I know why americans are fat, we spent 100 dollars on some coconut milk and fruit (and a few other things) where I could have gotten a buggy full of junk food. Its crazy how much more expensive healthy food is, but i kept telling myself my doctor bills will outweight my grocery bill if I dont change things NOW! haha. Here are few of the things we picked up.

I am not very "health food savvy" so I was stumped on this one, I know dairy milk isnt the healthiest, but i didnt know whether to go with coconut, soy, or almond milk so any suggestions on this would be wonderful!

I am lucky that my little diva's love fruit, in the napier household we currently have bananas, strawberries, blackberries, canalope, oranges, cutieis, apples, grapes, not to mention how many veggies. I hope I train them to live a healthy lifestyle, but im running out of time so I better start now!

Got us some more "shaker" cups because you know you are not technically a "health nut"without some shaker cups.

Made my first "health food"dinner tonight. chicken made with real lemon and pepper sauted in olive oil and sauted squash and baked asparagus. I think this is the first dinner in 26 years that I have eatten that does not contain a lick of butter! Woo hoo! thats more than a baby step, that should be considered a leap! You know us southern girls love our butter!

Anyways, Its late and i know sleep is high on the list of being healthy so I am gonna hit the hay! Lord knows I need my beauty sleep!