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Fit Mommy Friday

  This was a week of accomplishments.  I braved a 5 km hike on slightly hilly terrain, as well as a river hike that had exhausted me three years ago before I became extremely ill.  What a blessing!  I was also able to make salsa, with the children’s help of course, for the first time […]

Fit Mommy Friday

  This was a rainy week so we were inside a lot more than usual.  Because it was also cold, the windows were closed a lot of the time, and we all prefer outside air.  I’m praying for warm weather for several more weeks. On a positive note, for the first time in years I […]

TWT Recipe: Delicious Beef Heart

  helping each other be good stewards of all our resources: money, possessions, time, energy, and health  Every animal has a heart.  And heart, cooked properly, is delicious, healthy, and relatively inexpensive.  Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find heart meat.  Since a small butcher shop just opened near our home, we had beef heart […]

Fit Mommy Friday

  Now that I have my vitamins again, I feel very fit.  We ran out over the weekend, and unfortunately the country pharmacy where we get them was closed for holidays.  It’s amazing what a difference those vitamins make! Vitamins or not, I met most of my goals: Walk 8000 steps a day.  Almost.  I […]

Fit Mommy Friday

    This week was crazy busy, but I walked about 7500 steps a day on average, only a bit lower than my goal.  The physiotherapist’s exercises, well, those got done only half of the time.  Today I was assigned some core strengthening exercises that take a phenomenal amount of concentration to do right.  I have […]