So if you know me personally, you know that I am not a runner.

I despise it, honestly, mainly because for all of my school and growing up years, and then most of my adult life, it was made out to be the ONLY way to exercise, and yet my untreated, subtly asthmatic lungs made it nearly impossible for me to do.

I had tried doing it outside but the cold weather caused what felt like fire in my lungs, and I had tried it at a gym, as I attempted to look like I knew what I was doing and was not thoroughly hating every second of it, but my pocket book and my lack of time combined with lack of results and hating it mentality nixed that plan too. 

When I did successfully do it for any length of time, which was usually only a week or two before I quit, I saw NO results from these forced efforts, and it truly felt like a slow form of torture, so why bother. 

So then I resorted to just doing NOTHING, for exercise, or most things deemed healthy, for years, and unfortunately, it is this same s...

1st glance at this pic of my two girls and the baby dolls… did you see my younger daughter ...far right?! (❤️ this pic!) She kind of blends in with the baby dolls doesn't she?

When I was breastfeeding her at this age, she started having digestive issues that originated from what I was eating.

I LOVED this time w/ each of my kids & just wasn’t ready to end it yet, so I cut out dairy & soy that was suspected to be causing her issues, & low & behold she got better.

In celebration of National Peanut Butter Day, what is YOUR favorite way to eat peanut butter? 😋⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

I will share a few of mine below, but have a funny quick story. A few years ago, I started reading labels and realized that the peanut butter I grew up eating wasn't exactly peanut butter at all.⁣⁣
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I went in search of a brand that was real peanuts and didn't have unnecessary extra stuff in it, like sugar. ⁣⁣
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<This is one easy peesy tweak you can make... read labels and eliminate the products that add unnecessary ingredients>⁣⁣
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So I settled on the Whole Foods brand and then one from my local @heb grocery store. My mother in law was also making tweaks to their eating and did the same. ⁣⁣
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Well if you grew up eating the typical ones that most of us did and then ate the natural one, you know the consistency is a little different in terms of the natural one being a little more liquidy, right? ⁣⁣
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So, apparently my father-in-law takes his PB VERY seriously, and did not prefer this transit...