Day 111: The Day We Planted a Children's Garden

They were allowed to choose what was planted and where it went, and they had the greatest time sowing the seeds.

• Chocolate Cheerios in 1% milk and a small bowl of Cupcake Pebbles (I had to try) (breakfast)
• Goldfish, chocolate milk, Alba's pasta salad (lunch)
• a piece of dark chocolate, All-Fruit ice pop
  
• deli ham rolled in deli Swiss
• Dad's chicken and rice, Red Raspberry Diet Rite (dinner)
• 100 calorie pack Hostess cupcakes, 1/2 c milk
  

calorie total: 1,674

Day 110: The Day I Made Up For Yesterday

Adam and I went for our inaugural weekly "long" run. We hope it becomes a steady tradition. In preparation for the 10K we are doing in two weeks, we went for a 6.18 mile run -- just barely under 10K -- while our kids stayed with friends. It was only the second time we've run together and I learned that Adam is slightly OCD a la Monk while running: he has to touch nearly every phone pole and sign that he passes. Who would have known ...

• Greek yogurt w/ wheat germ, a slice of bread (breakfast)
• a pita w/ Suzanne's white bean-rosemary dip, 100-calorie pack Hostess cupcakes (have you bought these yet? Because you totally should), water
• a slice of bread w/ cinnamon-honey butter, deli turkey rolled w/ deli Swiss dipped in mustard, water, Cherry Cola Diet Rite (lunch)
• dry Chocolate Cheerios, water
• pita pizza w/ ham and pineapple, water (dinner)

calorie total: 1,426

Much, much better.

Day 109: The Day I Cared for Charlotte, Babysat Nico, Hosted a Lunch, Mowed the Lawn, Ran Three Miles, Baked Bread, and Went to Book Club.

Phew. It was a doozy of a day and I am so ready for bed.

And, as my sister says, I ate like a jerk. Man was not meant to consume so many Rice Krispies treats in such a short period of time.

• Chocolate Cheerios in 1% milk (breakfast)
• turkey and Swiss wrap, fruit salad, pasta salad, tortilla chips and salsa, lemon and white chocolate mousse parfait with strawberries, water (lunch for my friend who is expecting her 4th baby)
• a Rice Krispies Treat
• 2 more Rice Krispies treats
• yet another Rice Krispies treat (dinner??)
• white bean dip w/ pita, 2 chocolate covered strawberries, 2 slices of homemade bread w/ cinnamon-honey butter, a slice of Ami's chocolate-banana marble cake, water (treats at book club)

calorie total: I don't think I can admit it. I am embarrassed and ashamed.

Ugh. I truly ate like a jerk.

But I kind of have to, right? That's the whole point of this, right?

2,879

SHAME!

This is almost as bad as Easter. The sad thing is that, had I exercised any self-control over those blasted RKT, I would have saved myself 924 calories. 924! How could something so innocent be so bad for you?!? That would have kept me just a little more that 100 calories off my limit.

Let this be a lesson to myself: never make treats to help Adam study; it will just ruin you the next day.

Here's to tomorrow and a new day.

Day 108: The Day I Spray Painted the Kids' Chairs

Berry Pink and Key Lime Green. The girls chose the colors. Few things make my heart as happy as refinishing or repurposing something we already own. My ugly, orange, stained children's chairs are now shiny and new. Now I find myself looking around the house wondering what else could use a coat of spray paint ...

• Chocolate Cheerios (which they now sell at Costco) in 1% milk (breakfast)
• sliced deli ham w/ mustard, Ritz crackers, 1/2 banana w/ 1 T peanut butter, cherry cola Diet Rite (lunch)
• Greek yogurt w/ wheat germ
• 100 calorie pack Hostess cupcakes w/ 1/2 c 1% milk
• gemelli w/ chicken & bacon in a broth-cream sauce and parm, bread, green beans the rest of my cherry cola (dinner)

calorie total: 1,607

I may or may not have made Rice Krispies Treats for Adam at 9.30 pm in an effort to keep him awake so he could study. I can't really say. If I did also partake in this marshmallowy goodness, they would have set me back 200 calories a piece.

Day 107: The Day I Signed Abigail Up for Sculpture & Pottery

A 2.5 hour class once a week this summer. She is so super excited and so am I. Pottery was such a big part of my high school and college experience. I can hardly wait for her to get her little hands into some good clay.

• Honey Graham Crunch in 1% milk (breakfast)
• raisins & chocolate chips
• Quaker Oatmeal Squares in 1% milk (lunch -- can you tell I was craving cereal today?)
• Greek yogurt
• cup of chicken noodle soup, half chicken Cuban pannini (dinner w/ fam at Panera)
• DOTW: cup of vanilla bean ice cream w/ homemade hot fudge & caramel

calorie total: 1,880

I recognize that I abused my dessert privilege all weekend and continued today. I will be better tomorrow. I promise.

Day 106: The Day We Came Home From Syracuse

Always sad to leave such great friends, but so nice to be back home with the hubs.

• a banana (breakfast -- still full from yesterday)
  
• pretzels, goldfish, and a Rice Krispies treat in the car with a cranky Miles' during church
• homemade pizza margherita, fruit salad, little bit of pasta salad, a small piece pf each of Anika's leftover cakes, water (lunch)
• turkey and salami on WW bread, an apple, more goldfish and pretzels than I even want to think about, diet Coke flavored with a shot of cherry goodness (dinner/snacks on the road)

calorie total: appx. 1,900

Which is more than I thought it would be ...

Day 105: The Day I Ate Really Well With Friends

And by "well" I don't necessarily mean healthfully, but everything was delicious and worth the calories. And we went on an hour or so long hike after lunch and that partially made up for the fact that I haven't run in a few days.

• Anika's crepes -- 1 with broccoli and a sprinkle of manchego, 1 with caramelized bananas and whipped cream and the remains of Miles', which had the bananas and berries, milk (breakfast)
• lots of fruit salad (watermelon, strawberries, pineapple), a wonderful mango-avocado salad with Anika's homemeade vinaigrette, a small scoop Jill's super yummy pasta salad, steak expertly BBQed by Jon, water (lunch)
• a small piece each of Anika's two cakes: vanilla bean-lemon curd and chocolate cherry almond (post-hike deliciousness)
• Suzanne and I shared the following at the Arad Evans Inn: Wild Foraged Mushrooms & Chevre Tart (foraged Pacific Northwest mushrooms, Lively Run goat cheese, shallot confit, white truffle essence) and Georges Bank Scallops (pan caramelized select large sea scallops, golden chanterelle & hedgehog mushroom risotto, beurre rouge) and then I ate a beautifully, beautifully presented chocolate mousse with raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries and I ate it all by myself.

calorie total: with that dinner, I'm sure I was upwards of 2,500