Today was a bit [...]]]> It seems all Sunday’s start the same, with laundry. Since Little Man wakes me up at the crack of freakin’ dawn, I’ve learned to take advantage. We roll out of bed, dump the hampers and start sorting. Then we bring it down stairs to start the first load before breakfast.

Today was a bit of a fruit fest. I cut up a pear while Little man went to town on a pomegranate. He’s my official little pomegranate cleaner. :)

Anyone remember this gem from our archives? The TODDLER and I show you how we clean pomegranates. He’s been doing it for 3 years now! INSANE!

Besides the pomegranate and pear we tried our first ever Green Smoothie.

As you can see.. it was a big hit! Click here to see how we made.

We rounded out breakfast with a few hard boiled eggs. It was perfect!

After breakfast we got lots of miscellaneous stuff done, cleaned up the kitchen, folded laundry, yada, yada. Pretty boring stuff.

Then I hopped on my computer and happened to catch this post on Mrs. Fatass which led me to JourneyBeyond Survival’s Fundraising Page. JBS is a mere 25% from raising enough funds to get a therapy dog for her daughter. I felt and feel compelled to share the link. I donated and hopefully you can too. Every little bit helps.

While surfing I had a leftover bowl of Spicy Meatless Meaty Kale Soup while Little Man and Husband played Lego Batman. I’m proud of myself for finding ways of getting more leafy greens in during this pregnancy. I’ve been feeling good with my food choices even though I’ve been snacking my way through most evenings.

Soon it was lunch time. I made the boys sandwiches. Specifically a HAM sandwich for Little Man which seems quite fitting…

He cracks me up when he’s not annoying the CRAP out of me. ;)

I kept my lunch light, sticking with some carrots dipped in my new obsession

becuase I was meeting a friend for a lunch/movie date. We both wanted to see Black Swan which was… ummmm, alright. Not the best movie of the year but I enjoyed it. Natalie Portman was amazing though!

After the movie, the husband and I finished up the laundry, I made dinner, cleaned up, packed tomorrow’s lunch, read some stories and sent Little Man to bed. Again, boring stuff.

Right now I’m indulging in a chocolate craving with some super dark and waiting for Louis C.K. Hilarious to come on Comedy Central. He’s one of my favorite comedians of all time. Here’s a clip of him talking about 5 year olds that CRACKS me up. Be warned he’s like most comedian. Translation: He tells it like it is and curses. A lot.

Ok, he’s on in like 5 minutes. Gotta go! :)

Update: I’m watching and he did this bit on parenting that’s pretty funny….

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Yesterday I dragged my pregnant butt, head cold and all, to the gym for step class. I’m really having fun in there. I found a great instructor who makes routines that are fairly easy to follow and I’m getting good [...]]]> The title of my post pretty much describes the last 24 hours for me.

Yesterday I dragged my pregnant butt, head cold and all, to the gym for step class. I’m really having fun in there. I found a great instructor who makes routines that are fairly easy to follow and I’m getting good again. Those of you who have taken step know about the learning curve, "Ride the L", "Mambo cha-cha-cha", "V step", etc. It’s all coming back and I remember that satisfaction when I make it through a routine without messing up which is NOT very often.

After class I geeked out a bit doing a little maintenance on my sites. There are some days I want to get lost in code. I find it very satisfying to solve a programming problem. This time it was adding the titles to my GreenLiteBites archive pages. I knew there was a way to do it. It just took me a few months to figure it out. Now if you visit my All Recipes by Photo page you’ll see the title of the idea under the image. You can also mouse over but I wanted the titles visible.

You may have also noticed I added a top ad here on Roni’s Weigh. I’m not sure it’s going to stay there. I’m kind of evaluating ad companies at the moment so please bear with me. I only keep ads on the left and top so you never have to worry about them invading the content area or right side bar (although there may be a few remnants in REALLY old posts.) Earning an income from a blog is still very much a learning process.

Once I solved some of my technical issues I moved on to writing which in the case of this post was still a bit geeky. Over on RoniNoone.com I shared how I’ve been cursing at scrapers. A scraper is a site that gets all of it’s content from other people’s RSS feeds. Some of you may be reading this in your email or in a reader which is fine but for me to give you that ability I have to publish all my content in the feed. This creates a situation where others can steal it as well. It’s a common problem for bloggers and I’ve dealt with it forever but there are a few sites that refuse to take down my content. So I publicly cursed them out. It felt good. :)

Last night for dinner Little Man and I recorded ourselves making Deep Dish Crescent Pizza Casserole. It was SO much fun. I forgot what a good time we have doing our cooking videos for GreenLiteBites. This one was special though as I wanted to record and enter My Crescent WOW contest. There was only one problem. The video could only be 90 seconds.

90 SECONDS! HA!

I can hardly record a video in under 10 minutes so last night and this morning I spent most of my time editing. Editing. Editing. Editing. I went from 33 minutes to about 8 and then actually got it doing to 90 seconds. I can hardly believe it myself. You can see all 3 cuts by clicking here.

All this stuff I’ve been doing, plus the holidays has not changed the fact that today is the Husband’s Birthday! It’s a big one. He’s 35 today. I meant every word I wrote in last years birthday post and still feel the same exact way about him.

This year the Little Guy and I decided to make him breakfast in bed. We greeted him at 7:30 in the moring with a cinnamon bun, coffee and presents. Little Guy got him (and himself) a new Nerf Gun..

Which I think he regrets now… ;)

and I got him Inception. We were big fans.

I also secretly planned for a babysitter tonight so we are heading out for dinner and a movie. I made reservations at the Melting Pot and we are going to see the Fighter (Tron if we are running late.)

Somehow I planned all this even with "Pregnancy brain". Don’t know what pregnancy brain is? Here, I’ll give you an example. This morning I rushed to finish up the video editing before showering and heading to Ryan’s school for a volunteer session I signed up for. I was freaking out and running late. I ran into the school, grabbed my name tag at the office and rushed down the hall about 10 minute late. My son’s teacher saw me and simply said, "Hi."

To which I responded, "Let me guess? Today isn’t jump rope day."

She responded, "No, that’s JANUARY 21."

ohhhhhh.

So here I’m thinking I’m 10 minutes late when I was really 4 weeks early.

*sigh* pregnancy brain.

Or me just being a dingbat but I’ll blame pregnancy brain. :)

Ok, I’m out. I have to straighten up before the babysitter comes or she’ll have no where to sit. Yes it’s that bad and NO I’m not taking a picture. ;)

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Let’s start with Saturday morning. Little Man came with me to boot camp (they are now involving kids for the first half of class, VERRY COOL) and then we raced thru Trader Joe’s picking up just a few supplies. We [...]]]> We’ve had quite a weekend. Just craziness! I’m not even sure where to begin.

Let’s start with Saturday morning. Little Man came with me to boot camp (they are now involving kids for the first half of class, VERRY COOL) and then we raced thru Trader Joe’s picking up just a few supplies. We had to rush home to get ready for his first school concert!

His elementary school was having a winter jubilee where all the kindergardeners had to sing carols on stage. It was precious! And such a fun way to kick off the season. We had a blast getting ready for the event. Everyone was in a goofy mood…

As punishment for gloating about finishing the Christmas cards I took the most perfect family shot AFTER they were done. DARN IT…

Ahh well. We still have the picture at least. I think I print one for us. :)

The Christmas concert went off without a hitch, My Little Man looked so good up on stage! It was so fun watching him.

Afterwards we headed on the road to PA. It was my nieces 7th birthday and we decided to take the drive up and celebrate. After the long car ride I crashed around 10PM. It was the earliest I’ve gone to bed in months and I felt wonderful this morning. WHY don’t I go to bed early ALL the time? I mean really. You’d think I would have learned my lesson by this point. Anyway, we had a pretty lazy morning hanging out with my parents before heading to Chuck E. Cheese. The kids were great. Just look at these two goofballs…

We were there for 3 hours riding rides, playing games and eating pizza. Yea.. I ate more than my share. I don’t know what it is about bad pizza but I have a hard time stopping myself at 1, 2 or even 3 slices. I swear pizza in any form gets me every time.

Once we had our fill of pizza and cheap plastic toys we headed back on the road to head home. It’s a 3 and half hour drive but we made the best of it. Little Guy had a new flash light and a coloring book to help keep him busy while the Husband and I chatted the whole way.

It was a wonderful weekend but there’s something about the travel that just wipes us out. I did come home and make lunches for tomorrow but other than that, I have a lot of work to do to catch up for the week. Tomorrow with by my catchup day. But only AFTER my hit the gym. I’m having fun following my new pregnancy training plan. It’s just the shot of motivation I needed.

Well that’s all I got in me tonight. I hope you had a fabulous weekend!

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So proud of the husband for trying something new today. He may not have caught a wave but he TRIED! That’s half the battle, isn’t it? :)

The Husband getting the Little Guy in a game of S-P-I-T…

Then the sprinklers came on. :)

Happy Anniversary Baby. :)