We started the weekend a bit early. My oldest son had a little spill at school (slipped on ice) and he is home "sick" today. He is actually feeling fine just a bit skittish about his bloodied and battered face, poor thing.
So we all slept in a bit this morning, cause the other two kids don't have school on Fridays. When we got up the kids wanted raw banana ice cream but the food processor is on the fritz. I would use my Vita-Love but a food processor just works better for creamy banana ice cream. I am hoping my husband can figure out the problem when he gets home and put these cozy, frozy bananas to good use.
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So… we had leftover black bean brownies. They are good IMO but not fabulous. They are improved by eating them with banana ice cream. My husband and my boys really like them though. Hubby gobbled down five brownies right after I made them, although he did admit they are a bit "different". The recipe is from the Happy Herbivore if you want to check it out.
After a quick bite we all started playing the BEST Wii game called EA Sports Active. I swear this program is better than a gym membership. It is basically like having a personal trainer come to your house and walk you through workouts. In fact you have a virtual personal trainer in one corner of the screen. Just select a workout from a variety of options and you start exercising with the controller in hand and the nunchuck strapped to your upper thigh. You walk or run on a track, do lunges and squats, etc. changing the activity every few minutes until you have done a full workout… they are usually about 20 minutes long. We REALLY like the sports training workouts, especially my son. You shoot hoops, throw basketballs at targets, you practice hitting and catching baseballs, you rollerblade, you hit a punching bag, etc. He loves it. Here is he running on an outdoor track.
Yeah we were still in our jammies, sue me.
This game also allows you to track your progress, keep track of calories, intensity of workouts, and you can even do a six week challenge. It also comes with a resistance band for bicep curls and other strength training exercises. If you have extra controllers (which we do not have yet) you can also exercise with a partner. Oh how I like this game… me.. I really like a video game, who would have thought it.
After playing with that a bit we made some spinach, banana, mango smoothies with Amazing Grass powder. Oh yum! All 3 kids scarfed theirs down and greedily came after mine. I think we will be making more of these later.
Tonight I hope to go see The Lovely Bones and then start reading the book. I have been looking forward to both for a couple of weeks. Tomorrow we go on a 2 mile winter hike so need to stop and get some Pure Bars for that. These babies kick Lara Bar butt… they are soooo good. Other than that we have no concrete plans… maybe a rousing game of Uno, some sewing, a trip to the oil change place, a few hours spent watching the latest sad news from Haiti…sigh.
What do you plan on doing this weekend?
