Little things

Posted October 22, 2010 at 5:38 pm

It’s the LITTLE THINGS that make me happiest!!! I’ve got things to be EXCITED about and while some other people may not get that excited about these things — they REALLY lift my spirits which is exactly what I’ve been needing with everything that’s happened this year!

OK OK so first up….
1) Monday morning I’m getting a PARAGARD IUD placed again!!!!!! SQUEEEE! Yes I am excited about NON-HORMONAL birth control! I shouldn’t of gotten my other one taken out last November but I was “attempting” to convince myself to have another baby… nope. Still don’t want one and I SURE DON’T want to take hormonal birth control pills so I am SUPER EXCITED!

2) About a month ago? I think? Brad and I were grocery shopping and I was getting my peanut butter and always glance up at the top shelf where the more expensive butters are… including almond butter. I always express how I wish I could buy those but know that we don’t need to spend extra money. Brad had to go buy groceries for us last night and he said he had a surprise for me! Heh… you can guess!

I like it so far… takes some getting used to on the taste buds since I’m used to my Smart Balance PB but I LOVE LOVE all things ALMONDS so I look forward to eating this! I tried some mixed in with my cottage cheese mess this morning and was quite delish! It just matters so much that he thought of me enough to buy it!

3) Now I have a present for Brad tonight! Heh. I always read various “foodie” blogs to get ideas and read about how they incorperate more healthy things into their lives and April always has AWESOME new recipes she comes up with and she posted a very, very simple crustless pumpkin pie so I AUTOMATICALLY wanted to try it!!! I would love to bake more healthy goodies If we had more money for all the ingredients, lol. Anyhow! Here’s my version of her crustless pumpkin pie with my available items….
– 15 oz pure pumpkin
– 1 egg (or 3/4 cup egg whites)
– 3/4 cup fat free milk (or 3/4 cup Unsweetened Almond Milk)
– 1 tablespoon brown sugar (1/2 tsp NuNaturals pure stevia)
– 1/4 cup sugar free maple syrup (or 1/4 cup Torani pumpkin sugar free syrup [optional])
– a little vanilla extract
– 2 cut up hershey kisses
– a few cranberries
– lots of Cinnamon (whoops I actually forgot the cinnamon!)
Here’s how mine turned out!

I’m gonna surprise Brad tonight after dinner with a chunk of this and some of my Blue Bell ice cream on top for dessert for him!!! Heh. I hope he likes it!!! I know he will. =)

4) This might sound corny but I was really happy that Brad picked up some Trop50 orange juice for me last night! I tried this when I first started to lose weight and fell in love with it since It has less carbs and sugar! Ooooh It made me happy with my morning breakfast this morning!