Day 6 was definitely better then Day 5 but still not a great day for cravings. We had a fabulous time as a family though. We were up early because our little man couldn't breath through his nose and was having a hard time sleeping. We pulled him into our bed gave him some saline and managed to get another 2 hours out of him before my daughter stormed into the room wanting to know why her brother didn't sleep with her in their room. This is the start many tantrums these days. If she wakes up and he isn't in his crib, she is convinced he didn't sleep in the room and she gets very mad. I have to try and convince her that I only came in and got him this morning to give him his bottle as not to wake her. Sometimes she believes me and other days it's a massive melt down. This morning lucky we moved quickly into having some food.
So at 8 I made her cheerios and sat myself on the couch to try and wake up. I woke up foggy again today. Not sure if it partly has to do with M not sleeping through the night and having to get up and give him a bottle?
By 9, the whole family was up and I made scrambled eggs with yellow pepper, shallot and hot pepper this morning. Everyone else had toast but I had yellow pepper, avocado and raspberries. The raspberries were frozen (ones we had picked earlier this summer) and tasted like candy to me! They were amazing. I love things frozen, especially chocolate but that's going to change hopefully. Positive thinking.
After breakfast we got sorted quickly and made it to the farm by 1030am. Today, was A Day At The Farm day. So much fun. We met my sister and her family and another family there. We got to see how a cow is milked and how a calf is fed. We then got to go on a hayride around the farm and see all the crops and learn about farming. After the hayride we walked passed all the farm animals; milk cows, beef cows, a huge clydesdale horse, goats, chickens and even a donkey. So much fun seeing all the animals. We had a bit of a dance and then checked out all the vendors. There were lots of birds and ducks to see and learn about as well as how to make honey from bees. We already know and love the honey man but we stopped at his booth to say hi and inquire about what size honey pots he was selling. We go through honey quickly in this family and need the big pot which he didn't have. So we knew on the way home we would stop in to his house to visit the honey woman and get some honey! By this time it was 1230pm. So we decided to leave. We got to enjoy all that and got two bags of about 7 golden beets each for FREE. Going to A day at the farm is so worth it!
On our way home we had two stops first the honey woman and second our local farm stand for farm fresh eggs. The honey woman was excited to see us. We told her we had seen her husband earlier and he had sent us her way to get large pots of honey. This is where I messed up totally by accident. You see, we visit the honey family all the time, every couple months to get honey. So I have become accustomed to the routine of it. We get to taste a couple of the honeys and then we choose which ones we want and that's it. Well that's what happened first we tasted the buckwheat/alfalfa honey and then the zucchini honey. It wasn't until I had the zucchini honey in my mouth that I realized what I was doing and realized I CAN'T HAVE HONEY! SHIT. By this time I was on one huge sugar rush. So I screwed up today and I feel terrible! We left with a zucchini honey for ourselves and a raspberry honey for my in-laws.
After the honey situation we stopped in at the farm stand and got 2 1/2 dozen eggs. Then home. I love coming home when we are tired, it feels so good. S wanted a honey sandwich before her nap. I made that put the eggs and beets in the fridge and then decided it was VERY important that I go out immediately and get some soda water and pure blueberry juice. We have a local farm that makes blueberry juice with nothing but blueberries. There is not added sugar, water or anything. So I left my hubby to put S down (M was already asleep) and headed to the grocery store. I bought a few things but was very excited to get home for a blueberry seltzer. Which was delicious! I had my seltzer with a can of wild sockeye salmon and cucumber.
At 4pm the kids were waking up from their naps and we were getting organized to go to my sister's for dinner. The plan was to have a bit of a rib-off. My hubby was doing a dry rub for me and my brother-in-law was doing BBQ ribs. The boys started into it with their beers and ribs while the kids played and my sister and I sorted the sides. We ended up having potatoes from the farm, salad with red pepper, cucumber, craisins, apple and goat cheese in it. I was everything minus the goat cheese. Dinner was AMAZING. The dry rub was awesome, and a fairly spicy which we love. YUMMY.
We stayed for a little bit after dinner but were home by 9pm putting the babies to bed.
Today was a great day but still all day I craved everything. I was desperate again to have my diet coke and I so wanted to have some kind of candy either a gummy or chocolate. I even wanted my daughters ice cream and I'm not a huge ice cream fan. UGH! I hope tomorrow the craves are better because it feels like torture right now. Especially wanting my husband enjoy his beer while I had a soda water. I LOVE BEER. No I can do this. I'm strong, I can do this!
Here's to tomorrow and Day 7, the end of a very long week.
ps. Our parents made an amazing offer tonight: They want to switch houses in a couple weeks for the whole weekend and they want to keep the KIDS! Seriously, for two whole nights we would be kid free. From Friday to Sunday afternoon! We have never had that, we've only had a night. What would we do with ourselves? I'm so excited. The only down fall is I won't be through my 30 days, so I won't be able to enjoy a glass of wine with my hubby to toast our great escape. What to do? Should we ask to change the date to a few weeks later, so that I can have a glass of wine? or just suck it up and do it in a couple weeks time? Things to mull over. We have the most WONDERFUL families in the whole world. We love them all so much and are so lucky to have every single one of them. Will let you know in a future post what we do.
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