Day 4

Today was a bit up and down. I felt great this morning. After dropping off Cali, I did a bit of writing, then cleaned up in my office. I went to my Sunday School classroom to put up a few pictures that I hadn't posted yet, picked up Cali and went shopping for dinner ingredients. I never realized how much junk food is dispersed throughout the store. While at self-checkout, there was a cooler filled with ice cream treats. I tried not to stare at the little ice cream sandwiches, with the perfect little vanilla waves stuffed between two chocolate cookies. 

 I crashed when I got home. I was too hungry and wanted junk. I spied a Reese's pb cup package on the countertop, but it turned out to be a roll of packing tape.  

After lunch and after  the kids were in bed, I took a nap. When I was woken up by Marley, I was grumpy. SUPER grumpy. Then hungry. Then happy while  having an apple with almond butter, but then grumpy  again. There is a blog post that describes what you may feel over the whole30, and day 4-5 are called "kill all things" because of the grumpy factor, and days...I think it's 6-7 are tired. I combined both into one afternoon. I'm hoping that this is not the pattern for the next three days. 

To get  out of the grumpies, I grabbed my i-pod, put on Mumford&Sons and went for a walk around our park. The sun was shining out from behind the clouds and the air was cool, but not too cold.  It's rare in January to have sunshine without bitter cold or  harsh east wind. 

With a much improved mood and a cup of Chai Spice tea, I made  dinner while Matt played outside with Cali and Sawyer.  I was nervous about the dinner.  It was spaghetti and meatballs.  I made meatballs with ground chicken breast, onion, garlic, salt and pepper. I made marinara sauce using tomatoes I grew this past summer as well as garlic, onion and various spices. Then, I cooked a spaghetti squash. Those things are so cool.  If you haven't tried it yet, you need to. Once cooked, you just pull out the meat of squash and it looks just like spaghetti noodles. I was worried that my meatballs would be bland, the sauce yucky and the noodles weird. It turned out to be really yummy and has to be super healthy. 

My lesson for today: Rose+notenoughfood=GRUMP! Grumpyrose+walk+food=Happy

Matt prefers happy Rose. 

Sawyer catching snowflakes on his tongue a while back. I'm hoping the forecasters are wrong and we will get lots of snow tomorrow.