Toward Wholeness: three months in... and spotlight three: found wood necklace

attention:

those of you who only read this blog for pictures of the cutest kid in the world, please scroll to the bottom immediately.

now, for anyone who stuck around for the outfit and jewelry... the outfit: top, thrifted; shorts, thrifted (seen here and here and here in the past "month shots with the shed"); boots, gift from jason; necklace, handmade from cord and a found piece of wood; earrings, bought at the Light of Christmas boutique last year, made by the lovely Becca Nevius (both of us will be selling jewelry there this year!)

isn't this little piece of wood amazing?? it's like a miniature tree! love it :)

closeup of the earrings by becca

now for the "three months in" update... there is no update. i weigh exactly the same as last month (190 lbs), and have continued to struggle with eating healthy.
this month i blame:
a) jason for buying me ten pounds of bulk chai latte powder (the best in the world.) to celebrate the arrival of fall (and i have yet to celebrate or really even acknowledge its subsequent departure, with the temperatures still in the 80s this week). you have to try it to understand, but this chai sweetness is truly irresistible. and something about allowing myself to have it every day seems to undermine my healthy aspirations...
and/or
b) joey. this is probably an even bigger one. i got all inspired to cook and make healthy meals, and the ones i was trying were delicious! but my almost-2-year-old refuses to eat pretty much every single one. so it makes me less motivated to cook this way when i'm going to either have to cook a separate meal for him, or send him to bed hungry. i've tried to find healthy, toddler-friendly meals, but almost everything seems to be either/or. of course he'll eat macaroni and cheese, burgers, fried chicken, and sweets. but not anything I cook, oh no. he does eat vegetables pretty well... he'll ask for broccoli, peas, and edamame until their supply is exhausted! but nothing that really fills him up, and i try to fill him up in the hopes that maybe THIS will be the week he sleeps through the night...

but i haven't given up! my sister gave me this book about toddlers and it had some fun snacky ideas in there (also a constant drama in our house - he'll eat something up every day one week, and then have nothing to do with it the following one, so i'm constantly problem-solving. guess that's the life of a mother ;)

he has not been eating bananas for me this week, so i thought i'd try a different version...

i changed the recipe a little bit on this, since i had a package of Jell-O graham cracker crust in my cupboard, and called them a different name (she called them no-bake banana cookies)

"special bananas"

1. slice up banana

2. shake in ziploc bag of graham cracker crust

3. serve.

;)