“Wow, you fell hard”- quote from Adrienne

No, I am not injured, I fell hard off the vegan wagon this weekend.  Well, I didn’t fall as much as I leaped off the wagon into the past and the home cooked comfort of the Thanksgiving foods I made for my kids as they grew up.I had all the intention of making a vegan side dishes and my daughter had everything vegan there for me, but when faced with the choice to go left or right, I went left.

This is a first for me after making the choice to be vegan so many months ago.

So what did today bring me back to?  I just started over.  I am happily eating everything I ate – sunbutter spread on gluten free crackers, green smoothies, dairy free cheese.  It will take a few days for all the inflammation to leave but I will be fine.

I have trained my body to do well on a plant based diet and get all it needs from those sources and I am proud of the changes it has made to my energy level.  I would eat meat and dairy if it didnt make me feel do sluggish and sleepy.  The quote above was said after I exclaimed how good the stuffing would taste the next morning with bacon and a fried egg over it and left over gravy..

The weekend was EPIC.  Since we will all be in different locations, we got together this weekend for STRANDSGIVING,thus the Thanksgiving feast on Nov. 17.  Dylan, Jack, Chuck and I, plus Aunt Rah – thats what they call Laura and Adrienne or Friend as Dylan called her, there for the weekend .  It was great.  If you ever want to have your heart melt, play Sorry with Dylan.  He is so wonderful that everytime someone gets sent back to start, he says, “its ok its just a game.”  ADORABLE.

I had an amazing MOM moment that doesn’t happen as often when your kids are 30, 28, and 26. this is almost its own blogpost.  On Saturday morning, everyone had to go somewhere and I took the opportunity to go for a run, because thats what I do.  I am past the part where I need the cheerleading on and the good job you are running.  So off  I went down the road, about a mile and a half in, a jeep comes along and honks, in it is my son in law Ed, my husband Chuck and my two grandsons, Dylan and Jack .  They waved and drove on.  I was so excited to see them and thought, WOW this is great they saw me running!  It dawned on me that they actually saw me doing what I talk so much about. Then about mile 3 and half a red car comes along and honks and its my daughter Laura and my daughter Pam.  Pam rolls down the window and shouts SWEATPINK! as they drive past.   I didn’t hear that she told me afterwards. So they saw me too!

That was a good run and it was amazing fate that with all the roads around the beach that I would come across my family on my run.

Even when I don’t see them and they don’t see me, they are always with me in my heart.

Love you guys,

Signed,

your galfriday4hire