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My Yoga Discovery

Roodlyne — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:00:10 +0000

Ok. a whole week of different aerobic classes and crazy stretching no more knee pain,
I still don’t know why I started having knee pain in the first place but all that matter is that it stopped

So I discover yoga… Ok I know yoga has been popular for a long time but I never tried it mainly because of a crazy rumor story that was going on around my school when I was in junior high that kinda keep me away from yoga.

So last Tuesday I went to the Gym it was already 8pm and the only class they had at this time was a yoga class.
I didn’t go with hubby (the hubs usually coach me on what to do) and I’m completely Gym stupid, and don’t care enough to learn.
I need to have an instructor telling me what to do… so I march on into the yoga class.

To my surprise… it was amazing! there was no hummm or nothing like that it was almost like my Pilate plus class only harder.
I really like the stretching, the movement and everything.

Until I went back on Thursday and it was a different instructor she was sooooooooooooo slowwwwwwwwwww
she was like all
“grab the ball of energy” ,
“center your energy” ,
“hold the ball of energy over your head…”

All I could think at the time is how much I want a baconator from wendy’s.

at some point I just wanted to leave but I was almost to the front of the class, I didn’t wanna disturb the others.
I got so annoyed in the class, I was thinking if she mention that ball of energy one more time I’m gonna grab that hypothetical ball of energy and throw it at her. LOL

Then that wouldn’t be very christian of me so I kept my thoughts on the baconator. LOL

The Jury is still out on whether or not I’ll try yoga again…
Do you guys do yoga?
How do you like it?
Any pointers?

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Say what? I got knee pain :)

Roodlyne — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:00:03 +0000

Last week was another “Back to the Gym” week for me. I do that every once in a while, I go for a whole week, I start to feel good, I make pretty strong conviction that I’m gonna keep going but never do .

Usually the previous scenario happen when I see someone that look like that.

my mamavation

Well… as strong as this mamavation was, it doesn’t last.

You know how they say “you gotta do this for yourself” having those abs would have totally been for me, but for some reason I just can not stick to my workout discipline.

Things is I don’t actually have those abs… but if it is like before lunch and I suck my stomach in really hard and don’t breathe I totally have “abs”! so who cares if don’t actually have them all the time?

2 weeks ago, I started having this crazy knee pain.

SAY WHAT?

Yeppers! knee pain along with it’s sister back pain. OH NO! I’m turning into a grandma!
I love my heels, and lately I even started to wear them to work, I love how sassy they make me feel and the clickity clank sound they make when I walk, I mean I love my heels… and now I got knee pain? SERIOUSLY? knee pain?

That was my perfect motivation to go back the gym
Last week I did 2 yoga classes for the first time, 1 step plus abs class, and 1 body works. (I take whatever class is on when I go. no preferences)

What is your motivation to work out?
losing weight?
staying fit?
or do you just like working out?

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Oh the fruit of thine labor

Roodlyne — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:04:13 +0000

How sweet and tasty it is?

Something about seeing the results of my efforts make me oh so happy.
I’m happy when I see my 3 year old put on her pajamas by herself, brush her teeth… I’m happy when I see my 2 year old attempt to apply lotion on herself, even if she’s only covering a place spot on her tummy, it make me happy that she can.

to think that just (or seems to be)a few months ago, I had a little squirmy wormy kicking out of her swaddle, now she can walk, talk, and do things on her own, makes me wanna sit back and marveled.

This morning I was pleasantly surprise when I walk out of the house and compulsively check on my plants like I always do and I notice I had a nice plum green pepper hanging on my little pepper tree.

it’s been a year since I planted those seeds! a whole year! I made my gardening start up announcement here.

See? I had 5 beds of sweet pepper, hot pepper, lettuce, rosemary and parsley.
My parsley was they only thing that came through. My peppers? The first batch I over watered, I had to scrape them and replant in another pot, they were completely drown. The second batch got frozen from that little cold front we had in December, After the freeze there were only 3 frail plants left standing I moved them again into another pot with new dirt…
so today when I got out to see that little pepper I was so happy I was doing cartwheel… in my head at least.
I have turn a seed into a pepper!
That’s my accomplishment for today and I’m so proud of my little pepper guy!
what is your latest proud moment? go ahead and brag

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Bye-Bye Straight hair… Hello Curly

Roodlyne — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:19:57 +0000

My 3 year old daughter saw another little girl with long straight flowing hair,
she said: “mommy she has beautiful hair like you!”
me: “yeah she does. so do you”
3yo: “no” with sad little face

then it hit me, my poor baby have never seen her mommy’s real hair! and thinks that long and straight is the definition of beautiful hair

I try to convince her that mommy’s hair is just like hers, she didn’t believe me. I told her her hair was beautiful, she didn’t believe me. She finally accept my compliment on her hair, and say that her hair was beautiful too. Now I make her look in the mirror after I do her hair, shake it, wave it, touch it so she can learn to love her hair.

So leading by example I decide to stop relaxing my hair, so my little one can see that mommy’s hair is just as curly as hers, and it is BEAUTIFUL! Now five month into it and two hair texture later…
*sigh* little did I know I was in for a journey.

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Eating Dinner at The Table

Roodlyne — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:31:24 +0000

A random nationwide survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University found a recent rise in the number of children ages 12 to 17 who said they ate dinner with their families at least five times a week, to 58 percent last year from 47 percent in 1998.
“There’s definitely an awareness that was not there a few years ago,” said Miriam Weinstein, author of “The Surprising Power of Family Meals: How Eating Together Makes Us Smarter, Stronger, Healthier and Happier

Families that do have dinner together often are families whose parents are fully engaged with their kids.
Social scientists have been praising the benefits of family dinners for years. A number of studies show that children who eat dinner with their families regularly are less likely to get involved with drugs and alcohol than those who do not. They also tend to get better grades, exhibit less stress and eat better.

The study by the Columbia center showed that compared with teenagers who have five or more family dinners a week, those who have two or less are three times as likely to try marijuana, two and half times as likely to smoke cigarettes and one and half times as likely to try alcohol.

Growing up we always eat dinner together as a family, not necessarily at the table but we would all eat at the same time. It was fun, for some of us, I said some of us because one of the perks or downside of this togetherness we were all in each others business. When it was your bizwack being laid out it may not be all that fun for you but still a good laugh.

I never forget the first time a boy wrote me a love letter, I tried to hide because I was embarrassed not sure why but I was. Unfortunately one of my cousins found it and right in the middle of dinner with every body he step on a chair and start reading it everybody was going oooh and aaahh! I remember being so mad I took it out of the poor little boy who wrote me and told him it was his fault! part of it sucks but it did create a sense of accountability toward each other. If anyone was thinking about doing something naughty you’d think twice about it cause you already know its going to be dinner talk subject. It also teach us teamwork, if we’d learn that one of us is in trouble we would all pitch in. It is like that in my family till today. So I got to say I kinda of agree with this study, dinner time is happy time, people talk, kids talk, its a great time to bond, share and know what is going on in your spouses/kids life. When you in the know, you are better equipped to guide and assist them.
I say YAY for family dinners!
What’s your family dinners memories? do you think eating dinner or not with your family make you a better person today (or not)? SHARE!

PS: The statistics of the research was published in a NY times article

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Happy #EarthDay y’all

Roodlyne — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:31:49 +0000

To celebrate Earth day today
Kailee and I water the hibiscus, Kaylee couldn’t do it because it seems like just like her daddy she is allergic to pollen. I had to move my 2 hibiscus plant up to the balcony from the patio because both of them started to get real sick, my husband think its the flowers so I moved them just in case.

Anyway, we water all our plant, listen to birds, watch squirrel – later on we going to plant corn in a can!

I use to love doing that when I was a kid. I’ll plant 3 or 4 corn seeds in a can water it everyday and watch it grow. I use to have cans corn, black beans, papaya everything we eat that had a seed I would plant it. Too bad I never let them produce anything cause I would touch them too much, I always accidentally break the stem or drop the can or get bored cause it wasn’t growing fast enough. Hopefully this time around I can teach Kailee to be patient and not be like mommy was.

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Save your children and the ones in Haiti

Roodlyne — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:00:42 +0000

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Cryo-Cell International. All opinions are 100% mine.

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Homemade Papaya skin care

Roodlyne — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:00:09 +0000

I got this huge papaya at the green market the other day, I have been eating papaya anyhow I could think of. I kept the juicy seeds, they so pretty I don’t wanna trash them. I’m brainstorming what to do with it them.I just remember 2 months ago I was at the spa, during my facial I got a microdermabrasion done! my skin care lady told me that my black heads was due because women of a certain age tend to harbor dead cell on the surface on the skin and crap! pfft I tell you why I got black heads! I’ve been pregnant for two years! the second time around I was pregnant with a one year old attach to my leg so when I finally run in the shower I don’t have the time to really uh-uhm.. wash my face ok? “Women of certain age my bleek!” (deep breath) Ok now that I’m done hating my skin care lady…what was I talking about? Pretty papaya seeds? uhm…

oh yea! a microdermabrasion was needed to help clear some of my black heads, after the microdermabrasion she use some replenishing mask stuff made outta of papaya! You see my papaya seeds? (the little seed got a sweet juice in it when you pop it) she said that papaya was excellent in replenishing our skin cell to help rejuvenate! So hey, I got papaya I had a papaya smoothie, I ate the pieces with my girls they thought it was candy (so sweet!) I froze the rest. Now I’m about to make a replenishing potion out of my left over papaya seeds! Hey what’s the worst that could happen to my face? I’m not gonna get burn, or irritated or nothing I might wake up with ant on my face or maybe Kaylee slobbing on my face (She does that everyday anyway)*whistle* Talking about that I’m gonna go eat some papaya right now. Yum

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Mommy hit the weights! yea boy

Roodlyne — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:00:35 +0000

I started working out AGAIN 3 week ago, we have a gym at work and aerobics classes I have been going the these classes. Ok so this week I switch my (uh-umh…) gentle aerobics class to going with dear hubby in the morning. Ouch ouch ouch, I can’t move my arms ouch! I went for 4 day straight, we did, shoulders, biceps and triceps (I said I wanted those Michelle Obama arms) the first day. Dear hubby said he knows just the exercise to get me some Michelle Obama arms I was like yay! I’ll do it! uh-oh, I never knew I had these muscle in the back of my arms, I my weights from 5lbs to 10lbs woo-ooh! I’m still in pain and that was SATURDAY! Sunday we did legs that wasn’t too bad I guess running up and down the stairs with a 30lbs Kailee on my back and a 20lbs Kaylee in my arms did wonders for my legs. Umh… I forgot what we did on Monday… maybe it was back cause my back is killing me. Day number 4! ouch ouch ouch yesterday was day 4, and we did core conditioning. I just realize I had no stomach muscle, my gluteus maximus are weak and my side was noodle soft! I did five sit-up and I pass out (How can a skinny woman be so outta shape?). Even though I’m a bulb of hurt right now, even my bra hurt, crossing my leg hurt well everything hurt BUT I feel good! I feel good about myself, I feel good… I ate half of the cake from my daughter birthday party and I feel good, no guilt. I went to the gym 4 days in row *record* and I feel like… like this is too hard!(tears and pout) this gym stuff is hard! Can’t I just eat, watch tv, play with my kids, and blog?
Michelle Obama arms?! my (bleeps) *side eyes* I bet she has hers sprayed on! Uh-huh I saw Meet The Spartans!

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A Trip To The Farmers Market

Roodlyne — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:00:18 +0000

Where I grew up, where farmers market was all we had. There was no walmart or publix, or winn dixie, or target nothing like that. It was just people who just grow stuff out of their garden bring it out to sell it, there was no label, no expiration date no nutrition labels. You detect these stuff with your touch, eyes, nose and sometimes taste! This how we did things. So yesterday imagine my excitement when my husband drove by the farmers market and we stop there. all my old instinct start to rush in. I squeeze herbs between my fingers smell it, and call out the names, I pick up the fruit squeeze them, smell them to determine the freshness. I grew up green, I was green before they had a name for it! I love squeezing papaya, mangoes, avocado, pomegranate. I love to eat them, smoothie them, make hair potion with them, skin potion with them.. Ok you get the idea I love my fruits! If I had land I’d grow ‘em myself! My husband was in AWE! call me country! Poor thing thought the only fruit existed was apples, pears banana, and cool-aid! Anyway I had a blast at the farmers market! Who know how much cheaper the food was?

I got some fresh rosemary, fresh cilantro, fresh thymes… uhm! I mean fresh rosemary you crush that stuff between your finger and sprinkle it on your chicken and you friggin’ Martha Stewart guarantee!
I just finish my papaya smoothie uhm uhm good! I had some left over I’m about to freeze and the seed I’m gonna make a face mask with it.
Ever been to the farmers market? is that even available everywhere? tell me about you outdoor grocery shopping experience or are you like my MIL who won’t touch no food who didn’t come in a seal bag with expiration date on it?

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