Breakfast: Protein pancakes sprinkled with frozen wild blueberries during cooking.

Then topped with Greek yogurt with wild blueberries stirred in.  It was super yummy.  And I felt a little bit like super mom.  (I had mixed up 20 cups of pancake batter earlier in the week and 9 cups of protein batter then kept it all in the fridge waiting for a morning like this.) So the kids got blueberry pancakes too.

Strawberry Gelatin–A yummy experiment:

Our freezer got propped open with a stray piece of drywall and a huge Costco bag of strawberries (half full) thawed.  I threw them into the blender and made 5 cups of puree and added some stevia extract to sweeten it up a bit.  Then I boiled 1 cup of water and dissolved 6 Tbs of bulk plain gelatin in it.  Then threw it all into the blender and gave it one last buzz. After a few hours it was nice and firm and ready for lunch.

The lunch sandwich was super yummy. It was smoked deli turkey topped with sliced cucumbers and light mayo on a 100% whole wheat sandwich thin.  I feel a bit guilty about the sandwich thin, but I seem to have more energy when I use some whole grains.

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Today was more of a struggle for me.  I worked out with friends for the first time since summer and there was so much to catch up about.  It was my IT day, so I didn’t take weights and thought I would just do the exercises in a on then off fashion.  Well, whew.  I ended up just marching in place and flapping my lips.  I couldn’t do much of anything and think a good amount of rest might be required to get over this infection once and for all.

Tomorrow morning, I have an appointment with a massage therapist and then chiropractor to follow and then the day after Labor Day a doctor to fix this infection thing–I hope.  I’ve already visited 2 nurse practitioners, but the antibiotics aren’t working.  I wonder if they could just do an antibiotic IV in the office?

Tonight was open house at school and the last day our Chipotle BOGO coupon was good-so Darren grabbed that for me and was generally a hero tonight–doing family worship, scripture memory and putting all the kids to bed.  Also, we finally got a drywall guy to come look at our project.  He’s going to call us tomorrow with his bid….we’re on pins and needles.