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…)
wanted a kid before im 30 but there are no male prospects so i dont see that happening. im almost 27. and when married i wanted to be child free at the beginning. so much for plans :(
I’m with you on those wraps forsure!
I’ve got a sweet tea giveaway on my blog that you may be interested in- fellow Canadian you- especially if you’re heading out to the west coast sometime soon!
xx
interesting question. i was just having this conversation with my mom this past weekend. i will turn 30 this year, as will my husband. we have been married for almost 11 months. growing up, i never wanted kids. but, as i get older, that is changing. when my husband and i started talking about marriage a couple of years ago and about our future, we said that if we decided to have kids it would be around age 30. i just dont feel like we will be financially secure or that we have had the chance to enjoy being a young married couple yet so i dont know when we will start to consider it. personally sometimes i feel like maybe im getting too old and that it may just not be in the cards for us. plus, sometimes i am reminded about how i always thought that i didnt want kids, so why do i now?
i had my daughter when i was 27; my husband and i married early (i was 20), but decided to wait to have children. i’m so happy we did — we had a lot of time to just be a pair. now that we are a trio, i don’t know what we did before! she’s incredible and i love being ‘mama’. there’s been talk of a second, but we are now entering our 30’s and unsure of the timing. there’s still a lot of things we’d like to experience (just the two of us) and aren’t sure we want to embark on those adventures in our mid-fifties. i’ll be sure to keep you posted!
I’m 26, almost 27, and have been married for five years. It’s amazing to me that in 2010 people are shocked when I say I don’t want to have children. So many of my friends have kids. I love their kids, but I also love traveling wherever I want and napping in the afternoon. I don’t think kids are in my future. For someone that does want kids though, 30 seems like it would be a great age.
I don’t want to have kids before graduating from college (nor do I want to get married before graduating) but I don’t want to have them really late in life either. My ideal would probably be late 20s. Late enough to get my schooling finished with and get started on what I want to do with my life but not so late that it will mess with my career or anything.
That really is a tough one though.
What about you?
When I was younger, I always thought I’d have 2-3 kids by age 35, but here I am going on age 36 with zero kids! I love to think of us eventually becoming parents, but we also enjoy our child-free lives. Hubs and I keep putting it off (“not ready”), but we are starting to wonder if we will ever be ready. One thing is certain – we are way overdue to make a decision!!
Sorry I’m a bit late, thank you time difference :-)
Same as Tamara Lea above, I just turned 33, my boyfriend is turning 36 in a couple of days, we’ve been together for 7 years and we very shyly talk about kids, we don’t feel ready. Same as you, I wonder if we will ever be ready. We also started to talk about adopting, but again we still need to discuss and figure out what we really want.
I am 27 and I am doing a second degree in nursing, it’s 20 months, and I am in my second semester, so I won’t be finished school until half way through my 28th year. I have been dating the same person for 7.5 yrs, and we plan on getting married when I am finished with school, we would also like to do another year overseas, and then there is always the student loan debt I want to have paid off.
I have never had that maternal thing everything everyone talks about, I have never wanted kids, and I still don’t know if I want them, in any case I still feel way to young to 1) be married, and 2) be a parent. I am hoping I will feel different in my 30’s. My Ideal age would be after 36, I still have a lot of ‘living’ to do before I give over my life to taking care of another human being.
I’m only 20, and I’ve chewed on the idea of having children someday. I really don’t think I could handle childbirth. The thought of having an infant incubating inside of me kind of creeps me out! I totally respect mothers, I know it’s a lot of work to take on.
I wrote about this a few weeks ago in my blog, my husband and I are thinking about starting to try for kids after my 25th birthday (about 18 months from now.) Ideally we would be done having kids by the time I’m 30, but there is a lot of things we would like to do before we have kids, travel, renos, etc. So we will have to see where life takes us in the next 18 months!
i am ka-raaaazy about ezekiel! i splurged and bought a 5 dollar loaf of the original ezekiel bread, and i’m loving it. if i could afford it, i would buy the english muffins every week. they taste so wholesome and are so filling, perfect for breakfast.
i’m guessing the lovely couple (you and eric) had some kind of kids talk? haha. i’m hoping by 25 or 26, i’ll be doing the super-preggo-woman walk.
:)
Good question. I was not sure I wanted children and something changed when I turned 27. I just had a complete change of heart and now I am due in May. My husband and I wanted to have a child sometime during our late 20’s, early 30’s. We shall see if it was the “right time”. Either way we are so excited.
I’d like to have kids before my 30th birthday but seeing how I don’t have a boyfriend it might be delayed!! LOL…
This is interesting. Okay, I had my two children when I was 19 and 21. Obviously the down side is that we struggled financially, and we didn’t have the emotional confidence to tell our inlaws to butt out. In hindsight, we were great parents, but we weren’t allowed to be. because we were young, it was assumed we didn’t know what we were doing and there was way too much interference. So from our perspective, we didn’t get to enjoy our children as much as we wanted to, because we were always being criticized. But now our children are adults, and we are a very close family with lots of shared interests. I’m back studying again and we are still young enough to have a really great life.
Personally, I don’t think there is a ‘perfect’ age, just the right time for you.
I want to have kids in my late 20s (I am 22 now). However, I am from Utah so I am getting to be an old lady because I dont want kids until then :) A lot of people I went to high school with are married and pregnant now. One girl is pregnant with her THIRD at my age! Im the odd man out and perfectly happy with that! I want have my career started before babies.
Well one thing’s for certain, and it’s that both Ross and I want two kids. Ross gets into logistics that he wants to have a boy first, but I just tell him that’s up to him. ;)
As far as a timeline, it’s changed. When we first got married (I was 21 and he was 24) we were thinking of maybe having kids around when I was 26 and he was 29. I think Ross was really into having at least one kid before he turned 30 (I think his mom was 24-25 when she had him, so he’s afraid of being an “old dad”). However, I feel less and less ready for kids, esp. since I’m starting a back to school journey. I’d ideally like to start at 29. But we’ll see.
Honestly there’s only so much “effort” you can put into a plan, because things never go as planned. Look at me – I thought I was going to be a professional orchestral flutist, and now I’m pursuing becoming an R.D. All that to say, just roll with what life throws at you, when it throws it at ya. :)
For so long I wanted kids early so we could be around longer. Now that we’ve been married almost 4 years I realize how much a child would change things also and that we want to have SO much money saved to feel secure. It’s one thing for things to be iffy financially when it’s just us two figuring stuff out…but with a child to support that would scare me to death. People have said “it’s never the right time…you just have to do it”…but still!
I will be 28 in a few days and my Mom had me (the first of 4) when she was 28…but we just aren’t ready yet. We need to grow our business and just have “us” time for longer. It really took being married for me to realize the HUGE change a child brings and that you can never go back. This quote sums it up perfectly – “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
Also, we want to adopt! So that leaves out the part about wanting to be younger so it’s easier physically. :-)
Has Leah got you speeding things up? :-P
I tried the Ezekiel tortillas last week for the first time http://bluetreegreenheart.com/2010/01/26/good-taco/ . True, they are a bit tough, but considering how much healthier they are, I think they make a great taco! They weren’t too bad at all.
On another note—I always said I would have kids when I turned 30. Now that 30 is two years away, I’m thinking 32. Or 34. Or 35!
I am childless by choice. I never really had that motherly instinct so didn’t force it. I am 46 years old and have been married for over 23 years with NO regrets! Great question!
Thank you for this! I’m 25 and have never really had the motherly instinct either. The idea of having kids just doesn’t appeal to me, but it’s always the kind of thing where you wonder “gee, will I regret that decision later in life and wish I’d done it after all?” 46 is still a little ways away for me, and a lot could change, but it’s really great to hear from somebody who chose not to have kids and has no regrets about that choice. It’s been great reading comments from other childless-by-choice women here too… it seems to be a minority, but I appreciate reading other’s reasons and views on the matter.
Thank you to everyone who is childless by choice and has been brave enough to comment :)
I’m 29, and all my friends are dying to start their families. While I wonder what my life will be like when they stop being my friends and start being somebody’s mommies, I would never have a child as an insurance policy against regret. I’ve never had a nurturing instinct and can’t stand children, so I think my fate is sealed.
Thankfully my fiancee feels the same way, but my family and friends all thing there’s something wrong with me :(
I’m one of the childfree by choice women as well!! I like kids; I just don’t want any of my own.
It’s so reassuring to hear other women have made this choice. People (including my family) can be so judgmental and rude when I tell them I don’t want kids. While they may not understand my decision, I just want them to respect that it is my decision.
I also don’t want to get married. I have a wonderful boyfriend and neither of us feels the need to get married. We’re committed to each other and (for us) that’s all that matters.
Marriage and kids…it’s all a personal choice. What I don’t get is the judgements people pass on each other about such personal choices. What works for one woman isn’t going to work for all of us.
We’re getting married this year (at 25) and our plan is to try and have kids around 27-28. We both want to be still young(ish) when they turn 18 so we can still be able to travel and enjoy life – but also so we can have the energy to raise them!! My parents had me at 22 – looking back I was nowhere near mature enough for that at 22. But I think now we’re in a really good, really sound, mature place – so if they come at 26, 27, 28… I think any of those would be great :)