Bring me the head of Alfalfa Garcia - 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - if you don't usually eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES OF EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 minutes is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

There are no restrictions on what you eat so long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving our energy levels and hopefully our general mood and well-being. Sign up below and post here to tell us how you're getting on and how you are feeling.

Basic guidance on what constitutes a portion of fruit and veg here and you can download more detailed information by following the link at the very bottom of the page

Right, I am now going to drag my dcs Outside, In The Fresh Air, to collect blackberries by the canal.
Zippi, if you get the job and move here, you could come on little outings with us

that would be lovely

well look out for jobs for me to apply for

I did know what a frenulum could also be but foolishly opened BE's link

Had a much better day today after feeling crap most of this week. Mostly feeling better due to spending the majority of the day in bed or otherwise horizontal. I hate this. I don't mind having to have a nap but always feel like I should be raring to go afterwards and I'm not. The nap just stops me disolving into tears but doesn't help in moving forwards!!

Fabulous DH brought me breakfast in bed this morning and amazingly it included 3 portions of fruit - raisins in a HUGE bowl of museli, apple juice and a banana. I had tomato in my bacon sandwich and have just had tomatoey pasta sauce (homemade) with mushrooms, courgettes, onion etc and rhubarb (pils garden) and apple (my garden) crumble. (Dinner portion was smaller than dd's!!) I have also had grapes and an apple.

So in order to have a good day I need: breakfast in bed, get up at 11, lie on sofa til 3, afternoon nap, dinner from freezer.

Gosh that was a long winge, hope you all ignored it!

Pink, for a moment I thought you had rhubarb in the tomato sauce!
Glad you're able to nap. You are raring internally so just chill!
Do you know, I was thinking the other day that when you sent me those seeds, you were actually sending me many, many delicious little tomatoes and all the joy that accompanies them

Hot crumble just out of the oven. Apples from garden, blackberries from the canal. Not all that many blackberries considering how long we were out.

Aw, how are your tomatoes? Mine haven't gone red yet

I always do that with my food listings!! Rhubarb and tomato

Yum! Any custard?

We've had lots and lots of red ones. Are yours outside?

And yes, soya custard. Yum.

Yes outside. The plants that PILs gave me were started much earlier and in the greenhouse so we've had the odd one off them but nothing doing on mine. Might get one of those pretend plastic greenhouse things that you put around a growbag.

Right I'm going to have a bath and go to bed. [boring saturday night emoticon]

ohhhh TooT We had a delicious blackberry, apple and plum crumble at friend's last week - fruit gathered and stewed at SIL's and brought over to friend's for the boys to make crumble topping together It was gorgeous.

Please help me, my fellow lentilweavers. I am getting so nervous and worried about going back to the dreaded work On my full days (of which there will usually be two a week, but three initially because of this big project) I will be out of the house for 10 hours ds2 will have dh because he will work at home on those days, plus nanny-type carer when we get that set up, and he will come to work to be breastfed twice a day. (I know we are really really really lucky in that) But will he be okay? he is almost completely APed - bf on demand, almost exclusively worn, co-sleeping. he has always had lots of time with dh too so is securely attached there etc., but will it be a big shock for him? The truth Reassurance please

If I liked the bloody job or if it was of some benefit to my future (ha) 'career' I might be slightly more reconciled to it I wish I'd spent this year making preparations to go freelance. But then again I'm glad I didn't, because instead I have had it with the boys and doing my book research. And this job is such a safety net in lots of ways and we are sorely in need of one.

I really think both dh and I are going the right path for the long term but it is hard sometimes not to wish dh was in a job that meant I could be a SAHM. Will the boys appreciate, later, that we did this for them, for all of us?

ds2 asleep, am going for bath
just in case you really desperately needed to know that

berolina what is your book

and with all the security you have given little one he will settle into the new routine im sure

that is the point of attachment parenting isnt it

they are more secure because of it when you do start to leave them

We went on memory-lane trip today to where we used to live before children. Really startlingly run-down merging into trendy and half-gentrified half-edgy. Very different from our current semi-suburbia. It is very strange walking for an hour or so through your old life.

oh zippi thank you

it is an academic text on motherhood (any more detail is too potentially identifying but if you are very curious email me).

Hello!

I haven;t got much time to catch up as we have house guests but juts wanted to wave and hope everyone is enjoying the weekend.

hello chaps

celery
cucumber
mushroom
red pepper
all dipped in hummus

grapes
strawberries

discovered with glee I can fit into my old maternity jeans
well they are normal jeans but 2 sizes bigger than my usual
I didn't fit them 2 weeks ago though so is progress of sort

bero the co-sleeping etc will all help the daytime separation as zip says
I hope it is not as upsetting for you as you fear - I often find the anticipation of difficult things a lot worse than the reality of it - perhaps this will work out better than you think?

Franny thankyou. I really can't imagine what it will be like (completely different set-up from ds1's babyhood) and know we will all survive somehow - am very much in oh-well, we-have-to-get-on-with-it frame of mind really - it's just the frame has the inevitable cracks.

I have had a nice bath reading the Jako-o catalogue. The whole tone is a bit too sickly jolly for me, but they do have some really nice stuff - bright stripes, colourful fleeces. Their English website is unintentionally hilarious. I emailed them once and offered to sort it out for them. They never replied.

Oh Bero, there was this wonderful parcel today [ I shall email...

hello

i had a lovely day out in london yesterday with my friend.

we are low on fv

i am coverting toot's crumble

hope the festvallers are having fun (that is now - yes?)

morning
fruit and stuff
ds2 seems to think there is an all night cafe up my pyjamas
am considering whether to go back to bed or not
dp says I can but I have got Stuff To Do

tomorrow we are going to fancy dress Mad Hatters Tea Party at local stately home thing
I am going to be Alice
ds1 = white rabbit
ds2 = dormouse (well he is not having a costume but he will be asleep )
dp = ? Tweedledum? any suggestions?

Walrus?

Cheshire cat?
King of hearts?

I was Alice for a season at a theme park when I was a teenager

strawbs
pear
lychees
blueberries

Dh is away
it's raining
& ds is most grumbly & wanting to do everything that is not possible with no car

PooP

LOL walrus
that's the best idea yet
not sure how to make tusks though

I have been shopping. By Myself
am invited to dinner party on Friday and have nothing to wear. Tried and failed to fit my breasts into any kind of dress. Then got summoned home as ds2 waking up. Bother.

He is wearing the little kimono top that you lovely people sent me. He looks like fat potentate type person

strawbs and grapes
stingy dp portions though
ds1 grasses me up when dp makes my breakfast
"normally she has LOADS more than that Daddy! normally she has the bowl FULL UP and going OVER THE TOP"

We have been Tidying. Followed by a fried breakfast at 11, followed by leftover crumble and custard, followed by more tidying.
Phew.
Still looks a mess, but less of one.