Part 2: Why We are Trying AGAIN!

 While writing this blog to help my husband's cholesterol,  I was struggling too.  Fatigue, stomach issues, adrenal issues, were symptoms that I was battling every day. In addition, I was busy with 2 kiddos under the age of 3. I have a lot of mom guilt for being so tired and lacking energy to meet all of my kids needs.In addition to all of that, I was working full time, and had this great idea to start a blog. 

I started a blog about healthy eating, but I did not have time to journal in baby books about about the kids big life events? Mom guilt!  As I sit and think about what I just wrote, it seems silly. Prioritizing the health of my husband, the kids' dad,  and feeling guilty about it, just sounds ridiculous when it is said out loud. Desiring to keep a family healthy seems much more important than what their favorite veggie was when they first started to eat. 

While I was struggling with some health issues, my husband's cholesterol issue was the biggest one that we wanted to tackle. Needless to say, the conscientious act of cooking together not only physically improved my husband's health, it also brought the family together mentally too. Cooking daily in the kitchen leads to good conversations, hard conversations, tears, giggles, and mad cooking skills. 

Once the blog stopped, so did the healthy eating. We did do cooking, not with the intention of keeping healthy, but more for the purpose of convenience. Did we give our kids healthy meals? Sure. Could we have done better? Of course! As the kids got older with sports, and we got more tired, we developed a bad habit of eating out more. Sometimes sit down restaurants, other times, it was fast food. While we were eating out more, we were spending more money, that too became an issue with me working part time and having 2 kids in full time daycare.

Fast forward to a few years later, when Covid-19 hit. All of the eating out, and fast food came to a screeching halt. We knew that we needed to change our game and start cooking again. 

Final part next time....

TTFN,

Vanessa

It's Been over a Decade Since this Blog was Made?

 Wow, is all that I can say. Looking back on these blogs, it seems like forever ago. Thinking about the fact that in 2011 my son was an infant and now he's 13, our daughter was 2 and now 15. There are so many things that I wish that I could go back and change. I would parent better, get on the floor and play more, holler less, read more bedtime stories, worry less about my job, go for more walks etc... However, I cannot go back and should not have regrets...Hahahaha, that's easy to say. 

My purpose for this blog was to get  my husband healthy. Writing this blog helped keep us accountable for the process. We knew that Kevin did not have longevity in his family, so when we found out that he had high cholesterol in his early 30s it scared us. We wanted to make sure that we could get him healthy so that we could spend decades and decades together as a family. In the process, we were able to lower his cholesterol, but not to a level that was acceptable. Eventually he had to go on medication to help. His cholesterol has been great ever since.

Now, we have a new purpose for eating healthier..... I'll let you know more tomorrow. 

TTFN,

~Vanessa