Live, Laugh, Love, Bake.

Life sure has a funny way of throwing wicked curveballs when you least expect them, doesn't it? Last month we sent our firstborn off to college.  I hit 80 lbs lost on my Keto/weight loss journey.  Some good friends and I started a new roller derby team.  Things are moving right along. Here I am, minding my own business... and BOOM!! Yup. Baby #4 is on the way. This was definitely a very big (but happy!) surprise. I had just started talking about the possibility of adding to our family, but we hadn't decided on anything. Not even close. Nor were we trying for anything. 😂 What can I say? God has His plans and they are ...

Just a quick comparison shot to update everyone on my progress with keto. Still going strong and loving it.  Still a ways to go till I hit my goal, but I'm getting there!! ...

I've had 18 years to prepare myself for this moment.. 18 long years. And then I blinked and here we are.. and I'm still not prepared.   My mind knows that this is a good thing. My mind knows that it's not goodbye and that I'll see him soon. But my heart? Ohhhh my heart just won't listen to logic. My heart is breaking into a trillion pieces right now. Thinking about not yelling at him to clean his room.. not hearing him and his friends downstairs working out. Hearing them screaming at each each other to get pumped up for a heavy lift. Not having surprise extra mouths to feed at dinner time. I'm going to miss our late night 2 hour ...

Will you just look at that deliciousness right there?! Absolutely glorious, I tell you! Have I ever told you that I had an obsession with bread? Like... A serious obsession. In a typical day I would have a bagel (or two) for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, I'd snack on some bread and butter while cooking dinner, and then with dinner I had to have some kind of bread. Rolls to dunk in my soup... Bread to sop up any extra sauce on my plate... Oh yes!  Of course that was pre Keto. And for the most part I don't miss it. (Who have I become?!) But there is always an exception, isn't there? Like, tonight I made an Italian sausage lasa...

Ok.. so now I have that Ricky Martin song stuck in my head.. I know, I have no one to blame but myself. 😂 A couple months ago I wrote about how I had started Keto and then I kinda dropped off the face of the earth. Well, the blogging earth, at least. So I thought I should get around to sharing my progress. As of today, I have been living the Keto life for exactly 122 days and loving (almost) every minute of it. In my very first month, I lost a whopping 23 lbs! If course after that, things slowed down drastically. I'm not even gonna lie, I was a bit disappointed that it slowed down so much. I figured that because I weighed so much an...