A new Fresh Blessing is on the way.  My daughter Kassi will bring a child into the world sometime in September.  This past couple of weeks I have been away from posting, getting things ready for Kassi & Paul to come visit us.  Hustling and bustling about, hoping to make her first trip to our home here in Louisiana something she’ll want to repeat again soon.  I made her favorite meals and we played board games until the wee hours of the mornings.  Of course, I couldn’t resist breaking Paul in with a great green smoothie.  He’s a good sport!

And yes, this announcement means that she’s making me a grandma!  Again!  Our first Grandbaby was born to our eldest son & his lovely wife this past year– that’s him at the top of the post, Griffen is now 9 months old!

I feel so refreshed from this time of fellowship.  I have a completely rejuvenated outlook on life.  What a fresh blessing.   I hadn’t realised that Fun & Recreation was lacking in my life!

Since they went home I have begun every morning with a master cleanse drink.   This has easily replaced my morning cuppa and is so much better for me!  It’s like a morning gift to myself…  I’m still having my one cup of coffee, but not until much later in the day and I’ve already switched to decaf with the intention of eliminating it totally within the next couple of weeks.  My adrenal glands will thank me.

When doing the rawfood diet, I tend to enjoy eating simply.  One of my favorite breakfasts is simply cut up apple with chopped pecans or brazil nuts, raisins and cinnamon.  I usually have a green smoothie or two per day and a couple of small snacks.   There are some of my favorite easy recipes here, and tons of great recipes over at my friend’s site, Rawmazing.

What gift will you give yourself this week?

]]> http://freshblessings.net/2010/02/raw-food-n-fresh-blessings/feed/ 3 http://freshblessings.net/2009/04/finding-rawvelousity-day-three/ http://freshblessings.net/2009/04/finding-rawvelousity-day-three/#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:26:48 +0000 Joanna http://freshblessings.net/?p=143 Omgosh!  I feel sooooo amazing!  3 days to feeling great.  Not a thing has changed to make this time any less stressful, but I feel so positive!  Isn’t that what it’s about??  It’s not about the actual circumstances, it’s all about how you choose to handle them!  Raw food in my life enables me to get past the pity party and on to the power party!! 

Today I just wanna move it move it move it, lol… It never ceases to amaze me how 3 days high raw can not only change my attitude, but thins out my midsection soooo much!  Yes, visible results after only 3 days.  I wish I had taken pics!  I sleep better and wake up refreshed as well. My priorities are in order, PDL chap read, Essential oils applied, Supplements taken, Food prepped for the day and I’m off to work.

Food for today:

hot black tea/ orange spice with local honey

16oz water

Big Smoothie (40 oz): kale/ cacao/ banana/ cherry/ goji/ slippery elm/ maca/ sea salt

cucumber sliced in 8 oz water

16oz chilled roobios sun tea with stevia

strawberries w/ cashew cream and pumpkin seeds

randomly donated chocolate pieces (thank you?) 

Half salad like yesterdays, add spinach…

3 organic raw Snackaroons (Thank’s to the lovely @Rawbin!!!)

8 oz water

Move it Move it for today:

Bathroom Break workout (ask me, lol)

20 min Hip Hop Abs (probably hilarious to watch, but I’m getting it!)

Moving Moment:

Packed up one more kitchen box.  (Much more to come this weekend)

Figured a prospective timeline just in case I’m guessing correctly at the date/ place we’ll be going.  Lots of variables.

Encouraged my boss JoAnn (xoxo) to begin interviewing peeps for my position (scary step, but don’t wanna leave them hanging!)

Notified my parents that SoCal is out of the question for now.  President Obama cut the funding for that particular position.  Cried a little more. Picked myself up by the nape of the neck, dusted myself off and am writing this post.  While I am torn up about not getting to go ‘home’ as we thought we were going to be able to, I do see the many, many blessings in store if we do get to go where they Army Reserves would like to send us now.  Monroe, LA.

For ONE… Our son is there!  And his beautiful wife who is about to bring our first grandson into the world in the next few weeks!  (That’s a big blessing as we should be there for 3 years approx.)

We have many amazing family and friends there as well. Sisters, cousins, neices and nephews, Aunts and Uncles and friends.  There are great churches… and shopping! 

Disclaimer: We still don’t have orders, so this could change again.  My hunny graduates in one week and HOPEFULLY BY THEN we will have official orders.

Tomorrow is weigh in and measure (inches) day.  Here we go! 

Joanna Rawvelous

P.S. A big big thank you for coming to read this post!  Knowing friends like you are going to read it has helped me snap out of the funky numb place I had gravitated to…  Many times I have turned away from the junk food in the past coupla days just because I didn’t want to have to put it on here!  ;D

Priorities: Purpose Driven Life Day 6:  Check!!

Food Log:

24oz water

1C decaf coffee w/ stevia

1 Cucumber with 8oz water

12 Malted chocolate ‘egg’ candies – what??!!  (bosses candy dish)

Raw Snackaroon & a banana

<–Insert sudden major life change here. Crying, complaining, fit throwing

Parfait like yesterday, only saved the coconut for my salad and added cinnamon and nutmeg, mmm…

OOps, um, 12 more Malted chocolate candies, 2 Andes choc mints

<–Insert optimism here… then grocery store temptations that I held firm through… Mostly due to the fact that I knew I’d be posting whatever I eat here!  ;P

banana

salad: 1/2 heart of romaine, 1 orange, 1 apple, Fancy shredded coconut, dried cranberries, almond slices, pumpkin seeds, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger

Exercise: 10 minutes hip hop abs… wow! will have to work on upping this!

Packing: 2 boxes of kitchen stuff packed (clearing counters of unnecessary stuff) Added some books to my fav books box… ::D