Hi everyone! I'm so sorry that I am just now getting a chance to update. 🙁 Today was another heck of a busy day. It was Bible reading, Sunday school class planning, tutor lesson preparing, and baby M playing. I also found time to sneak in some personal reading time, too. Both blogs and book. 🙂  So, I guess I was more into catching up with you all instead of posting here. 😉 AND I wanted to wait until I had a picture of our dinner to post since I knew it was going to be a good one.  Note to self: I soooooo need want a new camera!!!

oat chicken tenders and roasted brussels

Hubs cooked up some homemade chicken tenders and I roasted some brussels. Mmm mmm mmm. Even M loved them! She devoured the brussels sprouts. Gotta start 'em early, right?

Well here is the 'recipe'. I put it in quotations because we pretty much eyeballed it.

Ingredients

• 2 large chicken breasts
• 1/2c rolled oats
• 2 egg whites
• seasonings of choice

It's so simple. Grind the oats in a food processor to a flour-like consistency. Add in seasonings of choice. We used a Kickin' Chicken seasoning and some garlic powder. Cut the chicken breasts into thin strips. Put egg whites in large bowl and place all chicken tenders in the bowl. Mix around to coat. Put oats/seasonings mix into a big plastic ziploc bag. Throw the egg-white coated tenders into the bag of oat flour and give it a shake to coat. Grill tenders up in skillet or indoor grill pan. Enjoy!

And I'm pretty sure many of us know how to roast veggies. But in case you don't - simply chop the veggies into even pieces (chopped the sprouts in half). Then toss in olive oil, salt, pepper, and any other seasonings you like. Roast in oven on 425 for 15-20 minutes. 🙂

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That's how I started my day. From the moment I woke up, it was nonstop today. It all started off with my morning Bible reading. Followed up with showers, baths, getting ready, and breakfasts for the baby girl and I. We had to head out the door at around 9:30 this morning to go and meet up with the local Mom's Group. I contacted a local group a couple of weeks ago and got some information and today was the first day to head and out and see what it was all about. We went to a cool little playcenter called Imaginations at Play. This place is really cool for kids. They have all sorts of different areas set up for the kids to explore. From a place to splash in water and play with bubbles to a mini grocery store to go 'shopping' there was all sorts of fun. Here are some pictures of Makenzie from this morning and all her adventures.

Splish Splash

Crawling through the Caterpillar

Working the Gears

Playing Vet

Coloring

I really enjoyed meeting some other moms in the area and having new things to do with Makenzie. I believe we are going to go to an indoor playground and meet some more people from the group on Friday morning. I think Ihave already decided to join this group. Do you have any groups or outside activities where you meet regularly with others? What are they? Why did you join? I decided to look for a mom's group to have more adult interaction and social outings with baby M during the weekdays. It is so important to have people in your life with similar interests and lifestyles. Which is one of the main reasons I have this blog 😉 Love you all! 🙂

After the playtime we headed home for some lunch. It took twice as long to get home due to an accident that shut down the main road to my house so I was a starvin' marvin upon pulling in the driveway. Lunch was my usual - some sort of wrap with turkey or ham, veggies, and laughing cow cheese/mustard with an apple and 100 cal popcorn or more veggies on the side. I am a creature of habit and tend to eat the same things all the time. Not very exciting for all of you foodies, I know. But I am who I am, so take it or leave it.

After I refueled myself, I got to some laundry and housechores while the baby girl crashed from her extravaganza of play. I did have a moment to take some time to catch up on blogs too and read my next book (which I am LOVING). Finally, it was time to get my groove on workout. I opted for an at home Turbo Jam workout today. I always love those workouts because they always leave me feeling great and it passes quickly because they are so fun.

This reminds me - THANK YOU for all the supportive posts yesterday. This is something that I know I want to do and will do eventually, the question is when. I still plan to take some time to pray about it, but I will probably go ahead and talk to the group fitness manager at my gym just in general about what it takes to get certified and stuff. And I'll just look at some things and see where the good Lord leads me 😉

Now I have to let you all go. My sister will be arriving shortly to enjoy some din din together and watch tonight's episode of The Biggest Loser. Which reminds me - I am so peeved that I accidentally stumbled across a possible Bachelor spoiler last night. Gar! I hate not being surprised. 🙁