You know, I do realize I have a food blog. Sometimes I forget, but at the moment, I realize, I do have a food blog. I just haven’t really been cooking lately. And, when I do cook, I don’t have time to blog about it. But, that’s all going to change as of now. Because, like the glowing grocery clerk at the neighbourhood health food store, I’m going to start making food and my health a priority again.

It’s the anxiety. The anxiety I’ve been plagued with pretty much since birth. It’s not always a bad thing. It kicks me in the butt, a lot, and reminds me, for example, that I better start eating fruit again or I’m doing to DIE. Love!

So, today I took the kids to the health food store and I bought local organic blueberries and raspberries and kale and lettuce and portobello mushrooms and apples and broccoli and red peppers and carrots and kamut flour and rice milk and the organic nacho chips Josh-O is chewing SO LOUDLY right now that I can’t hear myself think. GRRARGH.

Now, it’s one thing to BUY healthy food, and quite another to EAT it. So, from the time we got home from the store (2pm) to around dinner time (6pm) I was washing and chopping and peeling and coring and steaming and slicing and refereeing my children. My legs are still THROBBING from standing on them all day in my small galley kitchen.

All the while my kids snacked on carrots, and steamed broccoli with soy sauce — Rascal’s favourite. Because when I eat healthy, they eat healthy. Or, so I hope.

I’m slowly figuring it all out, Gorgeouses. How to take care of myself in the midst of all my roles as a working mom.

How to make time for friends….

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Monkey “cuddling neck” with gorj Bermuda Erna yesterday….

How to make time for the FOOD BLOG, which is an important part of my work — spreading great vegan love and recipes to the peeps….

How to make time for loooove — date night this weekend, hollaaaah!….

Hours need to be carved out. Even though I suck at carving hours. Maybe even minutes. So that I’m not working ALL THE TIME.

And this guy’s going to school three days a week starting in September – can you believe?

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I need to MAXIMIZE my time with him and his sister. By the way? *Tangent.* LOOK at this head. I CAN’T HANDLE THIS HEAD….

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Oy…!

I’m getting more assertive with my time. Not letting it get the best of me. Seeking, seeking time for me, for health and cooking, for writing, for writing about cooking, for READING, in every nook and cranny I can find — without staying up ’til the wee hours of the night (tonight notwithstanding……). It’s a work in progress. But it is, I’m finding, THE work. The life’s work.

Life is short — why not do it all? Why not try?

I’m a very busy, focused, intense girl. I have a ton of important stuff on my plate, lots of responsibilities personally, professionally, and spiritually. There is a way to do it all. I know it. Just figuring it out without letting expectations get the better of me.

I’m a work in progress. We all are. Isn’t it awesome?

Love!
xo Haley-O

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