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Bringing It All Together

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Over the past few months I have been have been trying to decide what direction I want Running With Tongs to go in.

One of the things that keeps coming up in conversations I’ve had with other bloggers is how I’ve approached dividing my content between my several blogs and social media accounts. The one question that keeps coming up is “Why do you have so many accounts?”. The truth is, I’ve been hesitant to mix my content on Running With Tongs since getting negative feedback several years ago when sharing my stories of my first pregnancy.

It left me feeling pressured to separate my life as a mom from my interests in food and fitness. But without sharing all of this, I feel like I’m not giving a fair representation of who I am to you. The truth is, I’m not just a lifestyle blogger or a parenting blogger. I am a mom. I love food and fitness. I’m passionate about natural body care and make up. I’m an essential oils educator and wellness advocate. I want to share all of this with you. These are the things I want to talk about with my friends and that’s what we are here, friends. 

I’ll still be maintaining a couple different social media accounts, but I’m incredibly excited to get back to writing and sharing a lot more of me and my passions with you here on Running With Tongs. 

Goodbye July, Hello August

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Neil and I spent the last weekend in July enjoying an outdoor concert, a trip to the pool and working. Yes, working.  We have been gone almost every weekend this summer and August looks like it will be that way too so we tried to catch up on a number of different projects. I was going to take the weekend off from blogging but then I remembered that I needed to write my Thrive in 30 post, so that went up yesterday. Although we did work a bunch this weekend, we did find time to relax and enjoy ourselves since it was the weekend.

Friday: Coffee, Coffehouse Games & Live Music

Beautiful Coffee.

Game- Barista. Even though I worked a summer as a Barista, I failed horribly at this game.

Bright Eyes & The Mountain Goats at Shelburne Museum Concert on The Green

Saturday: Pool Party and A New Beverage

Relaxing by the Burlington Tennis Club Pool

New Beverage. It was meh okay, not great.

Sunday: Work Day, Raw Muesli & Iced Tea

Homemade Raw Muesli. It was good until I put a gross almond milk on it (different brand than I usually buy).

Yummy Iced Tea. I made two other flavors too.

How did you spend your last weekend of July 2011?

Now it’s August and I have been thinking about goals.

My August 2011 Goals:

1. Stick to Pre-Training Plan.  Two 30-45 minute runs and one mileage run per week PLUS two-three days of strength training and at least one day of yoga.

2. Meal Plan.  I have been really thrown off lately with our schedules and our CSA when it comes to meal planning and I want to get back on track.  I do so much better when our meals are planned out ahead of time.

3. Organize my kitchen.  I love to create recipes but lately it’s been difficult because I feel like our kitchen is so unorganized. It’s time to go through and reorganize and purge. I should rather say just get organized in general because I need to organize all the rooms in our house and my personal, blog and health coaching things. 

4. Early to bed, Early to Rise. I would like to be in bed by 9pm to read and lights out by 10pm.  I would like to be up and out of bed by 5am.  I used to be in bed by 8:30p and up by 4:30/5a most mornings but since we have become more social I’ve been going to bed too late and getting up too late.  I am so much more productive in the morning too.

5. Read two books. This one goes with goal number four. 

What are your goals for August? 

Recipe Special- Lets Have a Fiesta

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Over the past few weeks I have really been lacking in the kitchen; less recipe creating and more eating up grains and veggies.  I also have been unable to spend as much time focused on blog writing as I would have liked.  This will continue on for a few more weeks.  At this point you are probably wondering, well why??? Well I am getting ready to finish up my certification from IIN to become a completely 100% certified holistic health counselor (coach – which term do you prefer?).  In addition to finishing up my work to complete the program the Hubz and I have been spending a lot of time working on my new website for my health counseling practice (by the way if you know a graphic designer who would like to do a logo on the cheap let me know).

So between the IIN completion, website launch, working on new ways to expand my business, I have also been working on recipes for the Cookbook Club and on a number of new projects which I will discuss when things become more concrete.  Needless to say this is a busy month and I hope that come April things will quiet down a bit more and I can get back in the kitchen working on new recipes, new and interesting blog posts and discuss the new projects.

Lastly, I would like to put it out there that if you have blog post requests please let me know because it really helps to drive me to write more, and to write better posts.  I have had a few health and wellness requests lately and will be working on these requests posts- so let me know what you want to read about.

For now I will leave you with a recipe from my last E-book for you to try out: