Day 69: Marathon Saturday

Parents' day at both swimming lessons, yard work, middle school musical, Stake conference, grocery shopping, house cleaning, etc. Why oh why did we stay up until 3 last night?!?

• 3 chocolate chip pancakes (1 plain, 2 torn and dipped in 1 T syrup), 1% milk (breakfast)
• WW spaghetti w/ meat sauce, 2 small bread sticks, water (lunch)
• 1 low-fat yogurt w/ 3 T wheat germ
• small handful dried mango & berries
• big salad w/ egg, candied pecans, cucumber, pear, goat cheese, homemade croutons, dressing, lots of water (dinner)
  

Day 68: Girls' NIght in Queens

• bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats mixed w/ the remains of a box of Oatmeal Squares in 1% milk (breakfast)
  
• 1 rice cake at Mom's
  
• dried mango, blueberries & strawberries
  
• warmed up pita w/ cheddar cheese & black pepper, water (1st lunch)
  
• 2 mini cinnamon raisin bagels w/ butter, water (2nd lunch)
• 1 frozen berry GoGurt
• 3 or so graham crackers w/ Nutella (trying to get myself over being annoyed)
• 1/2 fish taco w/ mango-avocado salsa, 1 tandoori something wing, crispy duck in a spicy tamarind sauce, brown rice, 2/3 of a piece of chocolate caramel cake (dinner at Jade and dessert at Martha's Bakery in Forest Hills)
  

Day 67: The Day I Took the Kids to the Dentist and Then Liberated the Front Yard

It is now free from the seven ugly, prickly bushes that seemed to only serve as a garbage catchers and a cat haven. It took 4 or so hours of hard, scratchy work, but it feels sooooo good to have them out.

• 2 small slices toasted brown soda bread w/ indulgent Irish butter, small bowl of Oatmeal squares in 1% milk (breakfast, 8.30 am)
  
• another piece of soda bread w/ butter, 6 oz yogurt w/ 3 T wheat germ, water (was this lunch? 12.30 pm)
  
• strawberry all-fruit ice pop from Suzanne
  
• leftover pita, warmed and slathered w/ PB&J (or was this lunch? 4 pm)
• chocolate bran muffin, water
• I think I may have had another piece of soda bread -- can't remember
  
• Dad's chicken and rice w/ pigeon peas, diluted apple juice, water (dinner, 6.45)
  
• 2 graham crackers w/ Nutella, glass of Ovaltine
  

Day 66: St. Patrick's Day

• green Irish-German pancake w/ green whipped cream, syrup & SB, green milk (breakfast (8am)
• dried mango, blueberries & strawberries
  
• 1 pita w/ PG&J, green milk (lunch (1.30pm)
• a few raisins and choc. chips
  
• some of Brenna's secret recipe soda bread, yogurt, water
• tomato soup, soda bread (great recipe in last month's Bon Appetit), cheddar cheese, water (dinner 6.45pm)
  

Day 65: The Day Mother Nature Took Sides

Adam and I disagreed about the big pine tree in our front side yard. He wanted it to stay, I wanted it gone. The wind storm over the weekend decided for us and it is now in heaps and piles on our curb. Sad day for the pine, but a happy one for the Magnolia that will soon take its place!

• same as the last few days - Oatmeal squares and a banana (breakfast, 8am)
• 2.5 slices of leftover vegetable pizza, diluted apple juice (big lunch, I know, 1.30pm)
• 3 low-fat Ritz crackers
• 1.5 homemade pita w/ 3 falafel, tzatziki sauce, red bell pepper slices, sliced cucumber, more diluted apple juice (dinner, 6.45 pm)
  
• 1 chocolate bran muffin
  

Day 64: The Day I Couldn't Remember What it Felt Like to Be Warm

Brrr! Our first daffodil has bloomed, but where did Spring go??

• 1 banana, 1 bowl of Quaker Oatmeal Squares in 1% milk (late breakfast - 11.30am)
• 2 slices of oatmeal bread (one with honey butter, 1 toasted w/ SB & jam), water
  
• 4 low-fat Ritz crackers each w/ a small piece of cheddar, 1/2 pear, 1 bowl Cinnamon Life cereal in 1% milk -- nothing else really looked good. (late lunch - 4.30pm )
• 2 slices of homemade pizza -- 1 cheese, 1 super veggie, plus the broccoli I picked off another slice of pizza, water (dinner)
• glass of Ovaltine
  

Day 63: The Day We Celebrate π

Since it was a holiday (at least at 17 Mulford St.) -- and knowing I would be subject to a ward munch and mingle prior to the Youth Fireside -- we decided to take our dessert day early this week. And yes, I totally over did it on dessert and feel nasty and bloated.

• bowl of Quaker Oatmeal Squares in 1% milk (breakfast)
• small scoop each ziti and salad, a small roll w/ 1 slice ham & 1 slice turkey, 1 mystery meatball, a handful of red bell pepper slices, 1/2 piece the Ambrosia Layer cake I sold at the dessert auction, 1/2 piece of Mere's homemade baklava, a three-bite size slice of Ami's chocolate cream pie, 4 cups of water (lunch at the Munch & Mingle)
• 2 cups of 1% milk to wash down the 3 T of leftover chocolate mousse frosting that was hanging out in the fridge, which I consumed immediately upon waking from a 2 hour nap
• chicken pecan salad w/ pears & goat cheese, 2 pieces garlic bread, water (dinner)
• 1 slice homemade Asphalt Pie in commemoration of the date (π = 3.14)