Today started off the same way most days in the winter do, with oatmeal.  I messed up a bit this morning and put too much milk in, so that’s why they look so watery, but that’s good sometimes. Today’s concoction was 3/4 cup milk, mixed berries, maple syrup and the rest of my Trader Joes triple ginger cookies.  Yum!
 
You have to love Costco’s, look at this motha honking huge bag of triple berries! 

In our household it’s only real maple syrup.  Before I moved to Cleveland I had no idea that people really used maple syrup, I was a Mrs. Butterworth girl, lol.  And not only does everyone use real maple syrup in Cleveland, it’s NE OH syrup only and this stuff is like $40 a bottle!  I thought G was kidding when he told me how much he paid.  But you know what? It’s worth every dime.
Harper is in the back of the pic contemplating why it takes so long to get fed in our house, why is mom always taking pictures!  She got her own mini bowl of oatmeal this morning. This was actually her first oatmeal, other than a few bites of mine here and there.  Since I usually have PB in mine, I don’t give it to her often b/c babies aren’t supposed to have PB.  Today we were PB free in the oats so a bowl for her was in order.  No syrup or cookies in hers either, maybe that’s why she didn’t really like it!  I gave it to her later at lunch though and she scarfed it right up.  Just wasn’t interested in breakfast today I guess.


After breakfast we headed to the gym.  Daycare for Harper and Beamfit for me. Unfortunately the normal Beamfit teacher was on vacation and the sub didn’t really know how to teach Beamfit, so we just did pilates. That was fine though, it was a good workout.  I am probably being hyper sensitive but there is a newer gal in the playroom and she drives me crazy b/c every time I pick up Harper she complains about how Harper wanted to be held and wasn’t happy in the swing, wasn’t happy in the jumper after a few mins, then didn’t really want her puffs, etc. I just feel like telling her – “Um, she’s an 8 month old, what do you expect, you have to move them around a bunch, they get bored easily!”.  Ugh.  I just feel like I pay them, so they should just suck it up and deal with her for the hour and not complain to me about it. It’s not like she cries the whole time b/c they come and get you if your kid cries for too long.  Whatev.

After we came back home and Harper got a nap, we headed to the grocery.  I love going grocery shopping, its always funny to me when people say they hate it.  I looked around for something new to try so I could blog about it!  I came across the “Food Should Taste Good” chips.  SCORE they were on sale!  I have wanted to try these before, but they are expensive at $4ish a bag and the bags are small.  Today they were on sale for $3, so I scooped up the Olive ones:

I wasn’t impressed.  They were kind of funky tasting to me, but do have an olivey after taste. I did like the size, crispness, non oilyness (making up words) and saltiness of them though. I might try a different flavor, but these olive ones were not for me.  Honestly ,I am more of a green olive girl as opposed to Kalamata olives, so if you like black olives, you might love these.

I am so sleepy, Mushi got up needing to poop in the middle of the night and I couldn’t fall back asleep.  I swear the 2 dogs are way more work than Harper.  However, I plan to go run with Fonzie at least 3-4 miles later, it’s wet and slick out there, so it will be slowgoin’, but I am trying to get some miles in the bank since I won’t be able to really do a long run this week b/c we are driving to KY on Sat and have Xmas there Sun morning.  Hope you are all having a wonderful Monday. 

Here’s a question for you today, what is your favorite chip?

This is pretty much what goes on in my house all day long. I can’t keep Fonzie or Harper away from the ball.