Happy Valentine’s day!!

Happy Valentine’s day!!

Well, as I am sitting here at 6:17 AM at my little office desk as I call it, I remembered that I once had a personal life that I blogged about.

Happy Valentine’s day to all my readers and I really hope you had a fantastic one. As for me, I am still bloated from eating too much, and later on today I get to eat more at the Florida State Fair. I have been getting more clients, which makes my day even busier. I dropped so many TV shows, and in search of a nanny or part-time baby sitter to come to the house, but it is so hard to trust nowadays. 

So for now I wanted to share a little bit of what I have been up to with you all. The link “Happy Valentine’s day!!” title is what I wrote for valentine’s day on a business level. 

On another note, my dear son has been growing up, getting pickier with food. His dad spoils him rotten, and there’s nothing I could do about it. I will probably update pictures later, but we went on a valentine’s play-date and mommy had to bake cupcakes. He had lot of valentine’s from the little ones, just hope he could actually understand that they were not trash. 🙂

As for now, I am going to close my eyes for one hour. Later Alligators!

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Share your 2014 resolutions…

I am sharing what I am grateful for and my goals as a new business owner.  Click here

Personally, I am grateful for my little family and being so fortunate to stay home and see my little man grow so much. Thankful for our new house, business ventures. In 2014 I am changing my wake up time from 7:30am to 5:00am (wish me luck), improving on being a better person, a better mom, I am not sure what I would keep the same at the moment, because there’s always room for improvement, even changing the color of my kitchen.

Take a moment to reflect on 2013, and share with us what you were grateful for. Now that we are starting a new year, what would you change, improve and what would you keep the same?

Xoxo

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Calling all brides, grooms, event planners. Website is Launched!

I know it has been forever since I posted, but I could always say that I was busy or why not. But honestly I have neglected my personal blog a little or a lot because….

Well I was focusing all the time I had in my business and the launch of my new website.

From A Pea To A Tree Events is my baby, and I am so proud to what I have accomplished the last few months. 2014 is a brand new year and I am ready to take my business to a higher level.

Go explore and let me know what you think.

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Can’t wait for all your feedback.

Dear son: Stop wasting my food. Thanks, your frustrated mommy

I know being a mom would be challenging at times, but where’s the book titled “The challenges never stop”? If it’s not me trying to get him off my precious watermelons( AHH!!! actually back to limes),or me trying to stop him from touching everything, but now it’s trying to get him to eat my delicious cooking.

How to deal with a picky either?? that, I don’t know! No one in my family is a picky eater. I eat everything, I mean almost everything, well, except fast food, soda, green stuffs, yellow stuffs, white stuffs, red stuffs, I mean really I am not anywhere close. So, this is why I wonder why my son is so picky.

Since I don’t like processed food, I don’t like pre-made freezer food, I cook from scratch almost everyday. Lately, I’ve cooked stuffs I don’t even know the name of, just to try to give it to him to see if he’ll eat it. Well, well, NOTHING! Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner all end up on the floor, which I get a rainbow on my kitchen floor at the end of each day. I mean seriously who doesn’t like a rainbow? AHH!!! Frustrated much!

Oh well, as a mommy I have to accept those challenges and deal with them. So I am just letting him starve pretty much. lol! Well, seriously I just give him the Gerber puree vegetables and fruits, and I make my own smoothie for him, which includes: Banana, strawberries, Greek yogurt, milk and 1 pouch carnation breakfast powder(which has lots of vitamin, protein, ect), and He loves it.

So I guess you could see my frustration, when he throws everything I take my very limited time cooking, just to see him throw it all on the floor and pretty much devour those Gerber not so yummy puree.

So what I am doing?

I am taking it one day at a time, and still cooking everyday and offering whole milk(FAILED), until he decides he likes something. Persistence pays off, right? I hope so.

Do you have a picky eater, how do you deal with it?

Xoxo

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Show me the Abs!

I am done with both challenges and the results are IN!! Ok that was 3 weeks ago, so yeah I am super late on the update,

but it’s never too late right? Right!

When I started the challenges I thought they would be a breeze, but little did I know what was in store. The first week was hard to keep the motivation going, but I had to remind myself of my goals, and I also hate quitting.

Clean eating: okay, okay!!! I cheated too many times, but I did eat pretty ok and my portions were calculated most of the times. I downloaded myfitnesspal app again, so I kept track of my calories. It is hard, but I started cheating 2 weeks into my workout, so I am still proud. I eat all wheat anyways, so it was not too hard changing up my food habits, but the cravings of all the “good” stuffs came rushing in all at once.

Abs challenge: oh abs! Where do I begin… when I started I thought it was a joke, but oh man was I wronggggg

Sit-ups: Hate them, because my tailbone just hurt bad when I do them. I had to put a small pillow under my butt to bare the pain.

Crunches: When my body got used to doing them it was not hard going non-stop, but I would just think happy thoughts, because of the pain.

Leg raises: Haha! Those were not made for me, but they are very effective. Sometimes I did them on a parallel bar that we have in our garage, but they are harder and I do remember crying once. Lol! Yep I know, I am a cry baby when it comes to pain, but I sucked it in.

Planks: Not bad, but the last 10 secs are always hard. I am so proud that I can do a 2 min plank, when I would die doing a 30 sec plank. I really had to keep my mind busy until the timer went off. When I felt weak physically, I told myself that I was invincible. Yeppp it works! 🙂

Squat Challenge: I am stronger then I thought, but yes they are painful, but I love seeing my glutes getting back to normal, so I could wear my Brazilian bikinis again. I always felt like the incredible hulk after my squats lol. At some point I thought my thighs would explode, they were so hard. I have a love and hate relationship with squats, but hey what can I do, I want that booty! 🙂

Cardio: I did not do much cardio, but when I did I jumped rope for half hour (jump for 3 mins, power walk for 1), or running outside (running for 2, jogging for 1) or the elliptical machine for 30 min ( I would do the high intensity option) which I usually do 3 miles or up. I don’t really like cardio, but I am proud that I can do 1 mile under 10 mins.

Well, now it is all over!!! Yay!

So, what am I doing?

I am still eating clean, most days, and monday I will start meal planning for the whole family, including baby. We’ll see Haha!

Took a break from working out, because I had too much pressure from my left hip, and holding baby everyday on that same hip is not really helping my recovery process. Well good news is that I am still losing fat, but I am looking like a stick, so I need to go build some muscles.

I want to see result pictures of everyone doing the challenges, so we could motivate others.

What do you find challenging while trying to reach your fitness goals?

Xoxo G

Busy Mama, raising a full house of boys…

I am not neglecting my blog, but I have been busy, which is not excuse really.

Well I have been planning my little boy’s 1st birthday party, which is a curious George theme. I am seriously going crazy trying to find mini plush monkeys with no luck. Everyone think I am going a little bit overboard, as my sister exactly said “This bday party is becoming more like a wedding.. OMG! lol”. Honestly, I don’t think I am going overboard, or maybe I am blinded by all the excitement, that I just want it to be close to perfect. As you know, I am not trying to please everyone.

Apart from that, my honey’s 7 year old son is spending the summer with us, oh boy oh boy now I have lots of testosterone around, how can I not go insane! lol. Sometimes I just want to hear a female’s voice coming through the door, or just see a pair of sandals that aren’t mine. That’s where my niece comes in handy, I really love when she comes over, because I feel like I am a women again or a teenage girl, whichever lol!

Ok, while typing this blog I got distracted by some cute mason jars, and I think I am about to purchase 2 dozens…hahaha! maybe I am going overboard a little.

Well, today is a rest day from my 30 day abs and squat challenge, and I do see some progress, but I have to say that it is no longer a breeze. Love the challenge though, because I push myself even when I hate the pain and want to quit.

Ok now, I was just updating you all on what I am up to. Pictures from party, challenge and whatever else will make it on the blog. No worries!! 🙂

What are you guys up to? if you did any of the challenges, what was the results?

Mama can do it all, oh yeah!

Baby + iPod Touch =screwed!! Well before the invention of rice.

A couple days ago, my son ate my itouch, which turned out to be swimming in a pile of spit. 

For a little bit I was frustrated, because I couldn’t play my music and the toutch was going crazy. For a second i thought oh well bye bye iPod.!  Then the light bulb inside my head lit up.

Backtracking to a couple months, the little monster did the exact same thing with my phone haha!

So how did I fix the problem?

The famous rice problem solver. I tried it with my phone and it worked, so I did ot again with the touch.

I turned off the the touch, and since I can’t take out the battery I emerged it in rice and left it there for a couple days.

The results?

It it blasting music again.

So if you ever find yourself in that situation try the rice method.

Have you ever tried the rice method or is there something more effective out there?

Xoxo G