It's been yet again two weeks since my last post. This week is intended to be a shorter entry as it's near bedtime right now (not sure how successful that will be lol!). A lot has gone on, keeping busy. In fact I'd like to say that by spending time with family, especially the young little ones in my life, it makes me feel young again. :) I encourage everyone to spend some time going down memory lane at the good times, there is always a good time, some happy place in our childhood that we can recall or should try to even during hard or very difficult and sad times. I admit I have a lot of bad memories however I have a lot of good ones too because, I made them. I remember even small things like colouring or sitting down in a quiet corner of the library and reading or flipping through books, or even in my teens just laying there enjoying the tunes in my headphones or on the radio or dancing around in my room when no one was watching. By staying active and doing the things we love and just allowing ourselves to do those little things it helps us stay young at heart and live life and live it a little longer where and when we can. Those small things as children we don't think of like, building and creating with blocks and just taking the time to see things as a little person would helps us understand children and just go forward and be less stressed when we let those adult problems go away for a little bit.
The reason why I talk about this this week is because 1. I spent an awesome time with my soon to be 3 year old nephew Wyatt, running and playing with Cosmo (my one year old cat, I have 2 cats) and smiling and laughing, building block towers and eating french fries and listening to him go on about the cheeseburger and burger images on the wall of McDonald's and being silly. Now yes, I know I've said that fast food isn't the best thing but once in a while doesn't hurt and I know that regularly he otherwise doesn't get all the bad stuff and he's quite active. He's definitely not a child that sits around trying to watch TV, mind you he has eye issues with cataracts at a young age so his other senses are heightened so that may be a prime reason why.
Now the second reason I write about being young and living in the moment and cherishing those moments you do have with family and friends is that my niece Leah, my nephew's big sister, passed away in Feb. 2010 of leukemia and she was only 4 years old. Such a young age, and though she was sick she made everyone smile and lived in the moment. It was always right then and there. There was no thinking about tomorrow it was always, let's share this moment now because we won't get another like it. The loss of a child is really life changing and you really see things differently after that. Her birthday is this Friday actually and so I thought in memory of her, yes there should be a post because she was one of the best little people in the world, and she taught me a thing or two about just being a child and letting go because she also acted very mature for her age, she knew what was coming.
I'd also just briefly like to touch on grieving, because everyone grieves in their own way and there is no real "way" to do so. You will go through the process in any order that it comes, perhaps anger, sadness, resentment, acceptance. Most of these feelings rush through you and they can come and go even as time passes. It's been two years and sometimes I still feel angry or horribly depressed especially on days when I look at my future and look at the now and say, this is not where I want to be. I'm not healthy enough or I'm not happy. And on those days I try to even think back to Leah and say you know what, she wouldn't have let her auntie feel this way and she would want me to go forward and do the very best I can with what I have and do simple things and be as healthy as I can because things just have a way of not being controllable such as cancer.
On to other topics, this week I've decided that going forward I'm going to try some new recipies and just play around with trying new foods and making new foods. I have been watching some shows I recommend such as 'Anna and Kristina's Grocery bag' and Healthy Gourmet shown on the W-network as well as the OWN network. I also suggest looking at the website Allrecipes.com and getting the dinner spinner app. Both quite useful and though I have yet to sign up for my free membership I find the recipes quite interesting and helpful along with tips etc. I also have signed up for Dr. Oz's Sharecare newsletter which also has quite a few tips and information that I find very interesting.
Well that's all I've got really for this week folks other than that expect in the coming weeks to have some new experimental recipes posted :) It's not just about eating healthy and what's good for you but doing a balance of working out and eating healthy. This week's dish was: Roasted lemon, rosemary chicken with spinach and sweet onion stuffing ( broken up bread and spiced with sage and basil) and roasted baby carrots and potatoes. Now mind you it needed a tad bit of salt but turned out otherwise wonderfully. :) Unfortunately I have no pictures this week of this dish other than later on I may post the before picture. My father and I just devoured it!
Have a great week, or two weeks :) Stay healthy, safe and happy and spend some time with some loved ones where possible and act like kids again! :)
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