Birthday {Cheese}Cake

((This is a post I forgot to push publish on...oopsies))

{Random Beauty}

I don't know what it was about this moment, but I found it very beautiful. 

Maybe just maybe it's that feeling of autumn. The cook in the air. 

Or the beautiful vintage truck. 

Or the sky that god took tone to paint for us. 

Hunting Season Day1

Part me wishes I were out there. Sitting in a tree, camo on, bow at my side, wind coolly blowing. 

Instead I woke up to a beautiful girl in my bed sleeping soundly. I fed her and we went to sit out side for a few moments. Enjoying the fresh cool autumn air,watching as the clouds passed by. 

She quickly fell asleep again. 

Instead of sitting in a stand, today I will work out with Zumba. First time since December 2012. 

Instead of field dressing a deer, today I will be cleaning house and working a schedule for next week. 

Instead of hiking to a vehicle with dinner for this week, I will cuddle. 

To be honest I can enjoy being a mommy just as much as I enjoy hunting. 

I just can't wait to teach my little one how to shoot a bow and a gun, and how to hunt. 

:)

The love of my life doesn't know my name.

Doesn't talk much. 

Has no favorite books. 

Or colors

Or songs 

Isnt very active

But enjoys all the sites. 

Laughs randomly

And giggles. 

My love has red-brown hair, dark blue eyes and a small nose. 

Doesn't worry much about fashion. 

Or care about how I look. 

Loves being held. 

One day she'll call me mom.

Beings a single mom is for the birds.

I love my daughter, I would never trade a single hectic moment for the world. But this is not easy, especially as I'm working from home. I have laundry piled on multiple peices of furniture, dishes slightly stacked, floors need mopping, rugs need vaccumed, and my "office" space needs organization. Luckily my mom and step dad agreed to come over and love on her so I can get some serious work done for my business.

I want cookies, she wants cuddles. 

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE holding her, but I was really wanting cookies and had a few calls to make. 

Thank God a gal from church offered to come over Saturday to help me actually clean. :) 

I have moments where I HIGHLY detest her sperm donor; leaving me alone to tend, nurture and care for her. Those are things I love doing, but I have so much else to do as well. And sometimes it would be nice to have someone give her a bottle instead of my nursing her at 230am then coaxing her to sleep. 

So ladies who are blessed to have your man by your side, be grateful, thank god everyday. 

I must say, I am one proud momma at how well she is holding her head up on her own. 

Motivation Board

I am very serious about working out and staying healthy. Not to say that I don't have cheat days!! But now this are going to be different much different. My health, diet and working out now also affect my daughter; affecting her food supply (she's a breastfed baby!!), and her outlook on health.

I am posting these as a motivation for me and also for other mommies!

Pre-labor I really didn't focus to much on exactly what I ate. I did eat healthy but I did not exclude certain foods, which I probably should have. 
{Little side note for the breastfeeding mommies: Lots of babies are sensitive to foods so it can be best to cut the most common ones out a month or farther out before your due date. I really wish I would have, honestly. Pre-pregnancy my lactose intolerance was coming back as well as having gluten-sensitivity pop up. Now that SweetPea is here the symptoms have started to slowly come back. On top of them affecting me they are affecting her, making her very fussy with a side of spit up issues. I highly suggest cutting out all dairy, sadly this also includes goat/sheep, soy, eggs and gluten.}



I meant to take an 'after baby' picture sooner that 20days, but I was a little too wrapped up in Sweetpea. And trying to sleep. ;) Also the above picture is not of me sucking in. That's right, some how I still have control of my abs!! I'm crediting that to doing sit up/crunches/leg lifts with every work-out and almost everyday.
Since it turns out that SweetPea is intolerant of dairy(which also means no goat/sheep), soy, eggs and gluten, this diet change will help significantly with my weight-loss journey. In fact I will be adopting a more vegan/vegetarian/raw diet although I will be eating meat. The company I partnered with to start my own business is having a weight-loss competition!! While I won't be one of the BIG winners I am really excited! Not to mention I am very excited to share my journey with you!

The Motivation Board is going to be hung up in the kitchen/dining area so that I can see the reminder every day! Hopefully you noticed that I don't have a POUNDS lost area; instead I have INCHES lost. Inches are more telling than pounds and a scale because muscle weighs MORE than fat. For example you could weight 125lbs wearing a size five pants, start working out get to a size 2pants but weigh 135 or 140. I'm sure I'll update the board, adding things around the frame so every time I do I will make sure to show you!!

Booby Cream

This is an entry I meant to finish forever ago!!

I decided to make my own Booby Cream because (you guessed it!!) I don't trust the chemicals in the grocery store. So I found a simple recipe, bought the ingredients and got started.

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