I did a cleanse/detox this week. I am always really skeptical of these things but a couple of my friends did it and said they felt great afterwards. I'm usually up for feeling great so I thought I'd give it a try. I felt really un-great for the first two days (and actually cheated on night 2 by having a bowl of cereal) but by the third day I
was feeling great and so healthy. I only did 5 of the seven days because I felt another day of red meat was too expensive for me and I pretty much felt detox-ed enough by day five. If you're feeling up to the challenge here is the detox:
DAY 1: Fruit only.
DAY 2: Vegetables only. Raw or plain steamed, you can end the day with a baked potato topped with some butter.
DAY 3: Fruit and vegetables. Now it gets exciting. (No potato today).
DAY 4: Bananas and skim milk. You can eat up to 8 bananas. I actually thought this day was pretty satisyfing and delicious. I just ate the bananas sliced up in the milk like a bowl of cereal.
DAY 5: Red meat and potatoes. Up to 20 oz of meat (no ground beef).
DAY 6: Red meat and vegetables. You can have up to 2-3 steaks this day!
DAY 7: Brown rice and vegetables.
Again, I only went up to day five but I do feel really good. Especially after the hamburger and fries at Johnny Rockets tonight to celebrate being so healthy. Sometimes in Winter you can just start to feel so shluppy so this was a really nice way to challenge my body and feel fresh. I had enough energy to work out every day too! Let me know if you give it a try!
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Yesterday we got overly ambitious and decided to ride from a park in Brighton all the way down to Boston Common to meet Dave for lunch. Well, I was going to try to impress my 2 readers with the exact mileage of the ride but I just checked on google maps and it turns out we weren't that ambitious after all. It was only about an 11 mile round trip (I was guessing 40...). But hey! It was tough! 
Today we went to playgroup at a park near our house and had some fun with the iphone.
Diane and Sophie ("Fifi" as Penny calls her). She and her husband Mike are good friends of ours and Diane is my lifesaver! She is always there to help me out.
Dave's mom came out for the week and we had so much fun with Grandma Pat here. We headed out to Newport RI to see The Breakers, the Vanderbilt mansion. It was beautiful and I am KICKING myself that we didn't go there when my sisters were here. 
Penny really loves Grandma Pat, she was such a good girl while we drug her all over Boston. Maybe that had something to do with all of grandma's tech devices...
Mostly this post is just to test out the picture quality of our new camera! We sadly had to replace our Olympus Stylus, our old waterproof/freeze proof/shock proof camera cause after three years all the pictures just started looking blurry (apparently it wasn't that waterproof). Although we did love the Stylus we decided the Fujifilm XP this time around and so far I really do love it. There does seem to be a little noise in the pictures, but I look better slightly blurred so I'm cool with that.
She learned to pick her nose. 
I made some bows, thanks Jamie. 
I painted a table for Penny's room. 
The chair has since been painted pink.
Playing at the park on a nice winter's day.
Me, looking rough on the ski track.
P, enjoying her snooze in the pulk.
And her wake-up...
If there's something vaguely familiar about the washed out quality of the pictures, they were all taken with a disposable camera. Im digitally regressing.