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…)
I just had a baby 2 months ago and I am 28. I knew I was always ready to have children (even at 20!) but my husband and I also wanted to spend some time just the 2 of us before hand. We have been together for 8 years. I find this is just the right time for us – not too early not too late! My DH is 35.
Gotta say, I love the Ezekiel tortillas. So much better than flour ones, the taste is great in my opinion. If you warm them up a bit, they get softer.
The english muffins are freaking amazing though – you MUST try them!
i’m turning 26 tomorrow…. one of my good friends is pregnant, and both of my brothers wives had babies last year. we got married last may, and with the baby mania wanted to start trying right away!!! we got pregnant… and then miscarried right after christmas (as if a miscarriage wasn’t hard enough on it’s own, it started dec 26th…)
so now…. i don’t know. i was depressed, gained more weight than i am comfortable admitting to, and feel like i need to get my head on straight. my husband’s job is kind of up in the air right now, not sure which direction he’s headed in, so it doesn’t feel like such a great time anymore. BUT we still both want a kid really bad. so i’m working on getting healthy and losing some of these pounds, and maybe in a few months we’ll talk about it again, and re-evaluate where we’re at. i definitely think it’s good for both of you to talk about it and make sure you’re on the same page.
are you trying to tell us something? ;)
I want kids. But only when I am with someone that I am sure will be a good father, who wants a family and when I am at the place in my life where I am willing to sacrafice parts of my life to ensure that my children are raised well. That means for me staying home with them.
Good topic.
I always thought I would start having children when I was 23 and I just turned 25 in november. The date is not as important I just want to keep moving forward in life and I have always wanted children so I would like to move on to that. I have had a very weird feeling for some reason though that when I try to have children I won’t be able to but really I have no idea. I would like to experience giving birth and know that a little piece of my boyfriend and are in this little person but I would love to adopt just as much I think I would be just as satisfied adopting first before even trying to have a baby. I would also like to get married one day but don’t think that I have to be married to have children.
Even though I’m only 20, I know that I want kids someday, and I think I’m going to take a page from my mother’s book. She had her first (me) when she was 30. I have heard from many many people that you don’t become a ‘real person’, or who you will be for the rest of your life, until you are 30. Before that there is still so much possibility for change, and why make it any more stressful/confusing by having children? Anyway, I also think that it will give me time to settle down and really have my act together before I create someone who will be completely dependent on me.
There is still a lot of change after you are 30 as well. I am 52 and still learning about myself.
No kids for me. Every time I think I might want one, I hear the kid downstairs screaming his head off for the fourth time that day. No thanks! :P
You know, before this summer I was 100% the girl who wanted children when she first got married, but realized after several years that she could wait indefinitely because being a young working married couple is just so nice. There is so much freedom and flexibility inherent to it. I will be 28 in June and I’ve been married for five years. I would’ve been happy to hold off for years yet.
That was before we hit our “someday” mark this summer. Years ago we set an absolute deadline for starting a family if we hadn’t started already. This deadline was designed to snap us back to reality yet still give us enough time to have 2-4 children before I’d enter shaky maternal age territory where increased health risks and decreased fertility become a real concern.
When we reached this deadline and I got over the initial shock, I realized something. I can make more money later. I can travel more later. I can run more races later. I can’t get pregnant later. If I miss this reproductive window that is open to me now, there will be no other chance to naturally try for biological children. In the (hopefully) long timeline of my life, so many things are possible at almost all ages but having children is not one of them. I have to start now.
Realizing this gave me the push I needed to overcome the fear and uncertainty I had about whether or not it was the right time. We will probably never be more ready than this and I will never be more physically able to support life. Plus, from a purely phyical standpoint, the sooner I start, the faster my body and energy will bounce back.
After we hit our deadline this summer, we took several months to double-check that we were all ready. I got up-to-date on any remaining dental and medical work. I had a pre-conception appt. complete with bloodwork. I’ve taken prenatal vitamins for years so I was in good shape there. We reviewed our insurance to make sure we had the necessary coverage and also started saving more.
We haven’t told anyone but we officially started trying last month. :) It’s scary but exciting and I feel great about this.
I want to start having kids after residency at around 30! I loveee Ezekiel tortillas – the taste took a bit getting used to but now I prefer them to softer tortillas. The English muffins are amazing too – surprisingly dense and filling as I always consider muffins to be calorie dense for their size.
I had my first when I was 28 and the second when I was 30. I’m happy with the age I was. Had done some travelling, spent time with DH (we got married young at 21), had our own home, etc. Now 10 years later I’m really happy to have had them when I did, especially when I see older Mums as their kids hit 20 (and they are in the 50-60 age group) and grandparents are very elderly. However, while I consider late twenties to be the ideal age it really depends on when you are ready for it. Babies are LOTS of work and each age seems to bring its own challenges. I’m now dealing with a tween – what fun!!!
Libby in Australia
Haha, all my pictures with a green backdrop are made on a kind of yogamat :-p
I am not thinking of having babies yet… Maybe with 28 or 29? ;-)
i’d like to start having children by the time i’m 28 or 29, simply because we have several friends who found they were infertile really late in the game. i hope i have a fighting chance!
I am 8 mths pregnant as of tomorrow! I am 30 yrs old.
Even though i’ll still be 27 when I have our baby, i’ll be just shy of 28. Steve is 35. I think this has worked for us. I don’t really think you have to take age into account, but more so how ready you are. I think we are having our first at the perfect time. We both have secure jobs with a good income. Yea we have bills to pay, but when is a married couple not going to have bills? Probably never :) I’ve had some comments about why we didn’t wait until we moved to Canada and while that seems reasonable we just don’t know when that will be exactly. It might be next year (and i’m planning on that!!!), but anything could happen -we might not be able to sell our house right away, visa/sponsorship could take a while to get Steve to Canada… anything.
I think life changes so quickly that we can never predict what the next year or two years is going to be like. So if something feels right, you gotta go for it (and that means choosing to have babies right now OR not).
I don’t want children personally, and at 38 I think soon that decision will be made irrevocable by my biological clock anyway. If I did want children though I definitely wouldn’t have done it very young – I would’ve waited till I was very secure financially and had done anything I really wanted to achieve in my life – it sounds silly, but taking holidays is harder with kids to consider, things like training for a marathon would be harder if you had to incorporate childcare and quality time – even starting your own business might seem like to great a risk with kids to consider. I don’t think I would ever have had time to have children as well!
I’ve always felt like I didn’t want to have kids but kept in mind that the feeling could arise at any moment. So far I’m 26 and the idea of having kids is still horrifying.
My boyfriend wants kids and I told him I would start considering it at age 30. I don’t know if I’ll want them then either but that’s the age I’ve set for starting to think about it.
Hi Angela!
I loveeee the Ezekial tortillas that you tried in this post–I’m always making wraps and burritos with them. I have not read all of the comments, so maybe someone already suggested this, but STEAMING the tortillas makes them SO much more malleable and palatable. When you steam them, they are not tough and chewy and dry as they are when you take them right out of the bag.
To steam mine, I just boil water in a pot, put a vegetable steamer thingamabob over it, and rest the tortilla on top for about 10 seconds or so on each side. Some microwaves also have steaming options, although i think you can put it between two moist paper towels and microwave it.
Anyway, steaming revolutionized my burrito/wrap making endeavors! Try them again this way!
Hi,
Great question and I have to agree it is very individual choice. I am 31 and have a 5 year old and twins who just turned 3. I mostly wanted to have them before 35 when health risks increase however only if I was financially stable and had a strong relationship.
I think it is important to ask yourself if you are ready for a big change in your life and relationship. You also need to be realistic about life after baby and maybe think ahead to some of those changes on your current life. You can never fully realize the impact until you have a baby but it helps. For instance, do you enjoy going out and having your own schedule with only 2 person financial demands? Are you ready to lose quality time with your husband? Are you ready to sleep less? I’m not trying to be negative because if you are ready for big changes and ready to change some of your emotional focus and adjust your life then a baby is the most wonderful thing. Kids teach us a lot but you have to be open to it and not resentful because of how drastically your life changes. So make sure you have had the time to enjoy your life and your husband but once your ready to have a new adventure then enjoy every moment and be open mentally to shift some ideals. I think you will be a wonderful mother when you do chose to have one. Maybe your next food venture in baking will be include a few baby and toddle foods adventures :)
Oh and when you have baby 6AM might feel like sleeping in :) Funny it is hard to picture loosing so much sleep but somehow you adjust and it all is fine.
B
I had my baby at 23 and split up with his father shortly after. We were never married and it just wasnt in the cards for us. We both now are with people we truely love and we just find our son surrounded by double the love. We WOULDNT recommend having children out of wed lock but we wouldnt change a thing!!
I had my kids late 20’s I think it was the perfect time to have kids for us young enough to retire at a decent age but not too young to not be ready financially and maturity wise.