Very good prices for Moving Comfort on this site today! I’ve enjoyed using the Moving Comfort running shorts, sports bras and long bra tops.

Fall Picks by Fit Mommy featuring corduroy skirt

What are you excited about this fall?

First of all, I want to give a huge shout out “thank you” to Santa Cruz Organics for sending my kids and I applesauce, peanut butters and fruit spreads to try just in the week before school starts!

Next, I’d like to preface this post with the thought that at our school, all the elementary aged children are expected to make their own lunch. At age 6, they have been asked to make a list, go shopping, as well as do the actual making of the lunch. For me, this can become complicated as the requests come in from my kid that he wants a cheeseburger for lunch, ha ha ha!! Yes, he gets cheeseburgers in this fit family- just not very regularly! Anyway, he’s given me a list, that looks like this…

I hope you can read this!! Pickles, Chocolate Milk, Oranges, Carrots,and Meat (eggs)! We’ve since started working on making lunches daily (we are on day 2) and although it doesn’t completely look like his list, he does get a fruit, a vegetable, a drink and a main dish that he picks out daily.

Here’s where Santa Cruz Organics comes in. Or went out, so to speak! We received two boxes of applesauce last week. And, I would have saved them for their lunches except that my children loved them so much that they each ate 2 a day until they were gone!! As well as the peanut butters!

As a mother of two boys, I buy organic when it’s affordable and I’d definitely repurchase any product of Santa Cruz’s Organics because my children loved them so much!

For more info and photos on kids’ lunches, please read this post on Read Breathe today.

P.S. For purposes of the review, Santa Cruz Organics provided us with samples and we loved them. This is obviously my opinion and nobody is paying me to write this.

In continuation with my last post, here are some examples of things we’ve seen on kids that we don’t recommend!

This helmet is situated too far back on the child’s head. It is not secure around his ears.

This helmet is on backwards!



This helmet is snug around his ears. The front of the helmet is going to protect the frontal part of his head, and it will not slip around his head.

I may be preaching to the choir with this post, but, I just see too many silly parents running after kids on bikes with no helmets! Let’s be responsible adults and suggest a helmet to the parent. And, I can honestly say that we have done this on more than one occasion…to the extent of donating our old ones so that heads can be safe!

I cringe at the sight of a kid of any age riding down the street without a helmet!! Do you know what kind of damage you could do to your head with just one crash on the head?

Why risk it??!!!

“Over 300,000 Americans suffer brain injuries a year. Don’t be a statistic, wear your helmet. During my career the doctors fixed my body several times. Luckily I never hurt my head because you only get one chance with your brain. Wear a helmet.” Picabo Street

Resources for parents looking for helmets:
Lids on Kids

Consumer Reports on the best helmets for kids

US Consumer Product Safety Commission

Now, would you tell a parent on the street to put a helmet on their kid?

Stay tuned for more information on how to find a proper helmet for your kid.

It’s back to work week for me….not sure if I am excited or drained, honestly. Next week the kids come back and I’ll be faciliating one more job as of next week- organizing games for the playground. Obviously up my alley, however, it is right smack in the middle of lunch. What to do?!

Just call me the “baggie girl”!

Pre-cooked chicken in 3 ounce servings are ready to go in my fridge.

Then, I’ll have a choice of delicious fruits or vegetables that I feel like eating that day such as apples, fresh salsa, strawberries, blueberries or a combination of all three.

For desert, I’ll have either a selection of cashews or an avocado.

Simple,easy and can be eaten anytime, anywhere.

The only thing is that all the teachers see me eat all the time, ha ha ha!! Maybe, I’ll rub off on them and they’ll ditch the Ritz crackers for an apple, heh?!

Having just learned how to Stand Up and Paddle recently, this event immediately appealed to me.

You can check it out on Active.

Who would do this for a Saturday event instead of a 5km?

On Read Breathe today….

About a month ago, I posted that I was testing Nitrean and Opticen. It is now one week past my competition, and I can honestly say that these products have helped tremendously.

Number one, is that both can be mixed in water easily and still taste good! Number two, if I don’t have time for a meal immediately following a workout, I’ll use the Opticen (2 scoops mixed with 16-20 ounces of water). This is obviously not ideal {real food is always better} but when I’m rushing, I’m happy with the Opticen. Additionally it does seem to help with muscle soreness significantly! With the exception of one very recent workout {of like 90 back squats at 95 pounds}, I have been a heck of a lot less sore!  Finally, I’ve had one huge PR in the last month!  My Dead Lift PR went from 185 to 210!!

The one product that didn’t work for me was the ETS supplement, although, I’ve read that magnesium and zinc would help with muscle soreness, I found for my body, the dosage may have been too much for my small woman’s frame or something…I just didn’t like how bad I smelled after taking it for a few days–even after I reduced the dose by half, I still smelled horrendous post workout. That’s not to say that it was the product, but, once I stopped taking it, I did stop smelling like a dump truck.

So far, these products {Nitrean and Opticen} are working for me and I’ll continue to repurchase.

You can read more about the products here.

P.S. Opticen and ETS were given to me for the purposes of review. I am stating my honest opinion and nobody is paying me for this review.

In my lifetime, I have climbed many mountains- both physically and personally.  I have climbed Mt. Whitney, San Gorgonio, Mt Baldy and many other local mountains with my dad.  These are experiences that are burned into my memory like tiny little photographs in the back of my head.  All of these mountains have elevations that are over 10,000.  Nowadays, I climb mountains in other ways- namely in some of the ridiculously hard cross fit workouts, in being a mother, a wife and a full time employee.  Sometimes, I feel sorry for myself.  Sometimes, it just feels like it’s SO MUCH that I just can’t handle another minute.  And, then there are days when I feel like I could climb any mountain no matter the height.

Recently, several of my very close friends have been given VERY LARGE MOUNTAINS to climb- not physically, but, emotionally.  Some are marital problems and some are incurable diseases of their loved ones.  Tonight, I am incredibly grateful for what I have and I am so sad for them.  My friends all are incredibly smart resilient people whom I know will climb their own mountains….just wishing they didn’t have to.

Let’s all be sincerely grateful for what we have!