I discovered my Lululemon yoga mat makes a great GREEN backdrop for a photo!
Today I want to do a product review. I purchased these Ezekiel Whole Grain Tortillas last week as a reward for my early rising challenge. The challenge is still going well- I have been getting up between 6-6:20am, with a few slip-ups here and there when I need more sleep. I’m not sure if I will be able to break into the 5’s like I hoped, but I am happy with around 6 anyways.
I was really excited to try these as I have been wondering about them for over a year now.
I had the wrap with a delicious quinoa mixture- 1 cup quinoa, 2 heaping tablespoons hummus, ground pepper, and 1 tablespoon tomato paste. Very delicious! On a bed of baby spinach.
I was a bit disappointed with these wraps because they are quite tough. I was expecting a soft tortilla but these were not soft. They don’t taste bad, but I would prefer to spend my dough on other dough…
I definitely prefer the Ezekiel bread to these. The bread seems more filling to me, even though it is about the same number of calories. Maybe it is because I toast the bread.
Someone mentioned that the Ezekiel English muffins are really good so I think I will try those next!
Celery is like air to me. Very fun to crunch though. That is one thing I love about veggies…so. much. chewing. 
I also made a fun discovery with my tea.
I rarely drink black tea lately, but I used to drink it all the time. Eric drinks it a lot so he has got me drinking some decaf at night time again. I wanted a creamy tea so I tried adding coconut milk. I put about 3 tablespoons of coconut milk into my tea. At first I wasn’t sure about the taste, but as I drank it I really enjoyed it. The tea was so creamy and rich tasting! A definite keeper.
Nothing like a hot cuppa tea on a cold winter’s night…
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This was a question I posed on Twitter tonight and I got some interesting responses:
“For all the ladies out there who want children- do you have a certain age that you want to have your first by?”
I would also like to ask: For those of you who already have children please share your thoughts on your own experience! Did you have them early enough, too late, just right?
Or have you decided that you don’t want to have children?
Any MEN out there who want to chime in? (I’d pretty much die happy if one did…)
27 is the magic number for me, but who knows? It seems so far away, but it’s really not.
I’m only twenty one so obviously kids are a ways away. But ideally I would like three or four kids, so maybe have my first child when I’m 27 or 28. Ah! Maybe it’s not so far away after all?
I just had one of those long indepth conversations about life, love, kids with some friends in the past week… I’m less than 2 weeks away from my 30th b-day, and for some reason, when I was younger, I always assumed I’d be married and settled and ready to start a family at 30.
I’m about as far away from that right now as you can get:)
I am surrounded by friends of all different life stages (single, married, kids, no kids, divorced…) and I’ve come to the realization, that while I love kids, I don’t see myself as a mom. I have voiced that aloud over the past year and the response is usually “oh you’ll change your mind when you meet the right guy” and I really don’t think so.
For me, I know that having kids isn’t a dealbreaker in a relationship, but that being said, if I did meet a guy who really wanted kids, I would seriously rethink my current stance. I’m also okay with having a relationship with a guy who already has kids.
It’s very interesting to me how people talk down to those people who have made the choice not to have kids. It totally fascinates me that people are so judgemental about this issue. It’s such a hot topic!
Great post as usual!
Are you thinking it’s baby-making time? ; )
So many bloggers have babies on the mind lately! I know more about natural births and cloth diapers than I ever needed to know because of bloggers who have had or are having babies. Its all good info to keep in mind for when I’m married and ready for children (in my 30’s I hope, I’m 28 now).
The comments today are very interesting. I’m 17 and I say now that I’ll never have kids. I know there’s SO much time and experinces one has to endure before making that decision, but I think I would be the worst mother ever!! haha
Re: the tortillas! Sprouted tortillas toast up really crunchy, so maybe try a pizza on it? Cook it in a pan while assembleing topings (tomato paste, veggies, and I use a mixture of hummus and nutritional yeast for cheese+ a drizzle of tahini) and then broil, that way it cooks from the top and bottom. Here’s a link to the page, if you would like!!
http://ohhmay.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/its-a-pizza-pie-part-2-la-galleria-de-pizza/
I’m another one of those “usual lurkers” but I’ve been reading for almost a year, and this subject is so interesting!
Each woman in my family is very different in terms of when they had children. My great grandma had my grandma when she was 16 (!!), which wasnt that unusual in 1923, when my grandma was born.
Both of my grandmothers had my mother and father, respectively, at age 30. (Weird!)
I was born right before my mom’s 33rd birthday. I have two younger brothers– my mom had my youngest brother when she was 39! I have an aunt that had four kids starting at 18; I have another who had 2 kids: One at 42 and 44 (That aunt is extremely healthy). So I have all kinds of precedents.
I used to think that I wanted to have kids relatively early, when I was 26. Now I’m 23, actually in my 20s, and I’m realizing how great it is. And I surprise myself by knowing I’m going to push that age back probably until I’m 30. I’m dating the man I think I’ll marry,and I’m realizing how much more we have to do together, and how much more we want to do together. And if it means that I’m ‘selfish’ to want to do that before I have kids, I think I’m okay with that. I love kids (I come from a big Italian family) but I love what I, as a woman, have the freedom to do. Launch a big career, run marathons, travel. To be a good mother, I think, I want (and need) to do all of those things, and fulfill my dreams outside of motherhood. Then I can tell my kids to chase their dreams and be happy when they do it, instead of watching them do so and wondering what would have happened if I had followed my own.
Interesting question about children! I didn’t get married until I was 36, and didn’t have my first until 38–and he was difficult to have–we finally conceived with in vitro fertilization.
I was a person who lived abroad, traveled all over the world, followed my dreams…but when I finally got married, I wanted children immediately. I had always wanted a big family, but I am 40 now and after a few more failed in vitro attempts, it looks like one may be it for us unless we adopt. I try to live with out regrets, but in retropsect both my husband and realize now that it would have been easier for us if we had started trying to have kids a little earlier. Being a parent is the most amazing experience in the world and we are so happy and blessed with our son. We lived in New York City, and it seemed like everyone married late and had children late, but what we didn’t know at the time was how many people were having a hard time conceiving at that time!
There are benefits of having kids young in life, but there are also benefits having them later–financial stability, emotional maturity, a tendency to not take little things for granted. There is NEVER a perfect time to have children, though.
There were some great comment tonight-thanks for getting this conversation going!
I got married at 21, and will be married 6 years this July. When we got married, my hubby and I always said we would wait a year or two and then have kids. We never realized how fast that year or two would go by!! We still don’t have kids, and I would still like to wait another year or two!! My aunt is a OB GYN though, and she told me that women are waiting a lot longer to have kids these days, but fertility really does drop A LOT starting at 30. That got me worried a bit. I wish I had more time – none of my friends are even close to having kids, so I would be so alone if I did :-(
What about you!!??
Interesting question — For myself (I’m 23) I feel like I have waited a couple years too long, but then I read baby mags and see mama’s who are my age and think “shizz that’s young” — But they’re only my age! My husband is 25 and we felt that we wanted to start our family while we’re young. We are definitely family orientated people, and enjoy going road-tripping and camping — Experiences that I believe Children would only enhance. I’m not sure how many we’re going to have, we discussed it before we got married, and struck the deal of 2 kids, but I was allowed 3 if we adopted one. My hubby doesn’t want to drive a mini-van!! lol. As far as money goes, we are struggling a lot, but we have a house and a secure job and a very supportive family behind us, so i’m not too worried. At the end of the day, I don’t think we could ever have been “financially secure” and we decided that it was now or never — after all, I think that sacrificing a bit of money for a child that will love you (and you will love) unconditionally is beautiful and so worth it.. I’m so excited to be meeting my little one soon! (Due 7th April)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who is child-free by choice (yep, that’s what I call it). I love kids – I just really didn’t and don’t want that job. This mindset gave me a lot of freedom when choosing a life partner and how I wanted to spend my time/life. Looking back, if I were to change anything I still wouldn’t have kids, but I would have worked harder on my career.
I really wanted to be done having babies by the time I was 30, but it looks like we’ll be starting around 27-28 and we’d like 3. I’m happy with that timing – it will be perfect for us! :)
I married for the first time at 22. My first (and only) child was born when I was 28. I would have loved to have had more children, but if I was going to have only one, the one I had was/is sheer perfection. She is now 19 years old and a freshman in college. If I had it to do all over again, if anything I would have had a baby sooner, but my “then” husband would have preferred no children, but agreed to have one. We got pregnant on the first try, too! We divorced when my daughter was 2 and I didn’t remarry until I was 40 and not interested in more children that late in my life.
I’m not a big planner, so I definitely advocate letting nature take its course at least when it comes to that first pregnancy.
The Ezekiel wraps definitely take some getting used to, but I love them now! Nothing beats the bread, though.
Ideally, I’d like to wait at least 5 years after I’m married to have kids to enjoy my husband’s company without all the stress! My parents waited 13! Hopefully I’ll be ready to have kids by the time I’m 30-35.
I always said that I wanted to be done by the time I was 30. I’m turning 30 this year and we are done at 1 =D. I had her when I was 27 and I wouldn’t change it for the world. She came into our lives right at the right time :)
I actually live in an area where more people DON’T have kids than DO so the majority of my friends don’t have kids and never want them. That part is kind of hard but I’m meeting more people with kids.
I used to never want kids but after I was about 20, that started changing more and more. I want to have kids someday but as of now I’m not married, in grad school (aka no income), and basically am totally not ready! My mom was 23 when she had me, and I LOVE how close we are. I think out of all my friends, I definitely am the closest with my mom and some of that definitely has to do with the generation gap not being too large. My boyfriend’s parents were in their late 30s and he agrees that the age gap makes a difference, and he apparently has always wanted to have kids at a younger age than they did.
Anyway… John, the boyf, works in research at an in vitro fertility clinic and I have learned so much from him about getting pregs (that sounds just wrong). We have way more topics about getting pregnant than most just-dating people our age ;). Basically, while it seems more and more people have babies in their late thirties, fertility REALLY goes downhill and complications start to multiply. I can’t remember stats but if you are thinking of waiting til later 30s, do some research!!
We don’t have kids yet but want to adopt. We are hoping to start the process this fall. We waited since we got married later and wanted to enjoy the first few years of marriage without kids.
i have been itching to try ezekiel wraps too — would you buy them again?
Glad you asked. I am 33 (about to turn 34 in 11 days) and my husband is 33. We are trying for our first and we are experiencing some bumps along the road. I don’t think I would be able to be as financially (or mentally) ready in my 20’s. In my 20’s, I was still living at home, had a part time job (no stability), going to college and going out (parties) every night. Plus, I wanted to finish school before anything else.
I can say that age is just a number. You can be 22 and have fertility problems or you can be 34 and have fertility problems.
I think women put some much pressure on themselves (among everything else) to have children at “the right time or the right age.” Hate to break it to you but there is no right time or age. Do what is best for you (and your significant other).
I have total baby fever! I’m turning 26 next week… getting married in may…and I’d like to have my first baby by the time I’m 28 or 29. We’ll see how it all pans out but that’s my hope!