Quick Morning Breakfast

Good Morning Dear Friends,


Another great crazy day yesterday! Before I go there, what an amazing concert Taylor Swift was. I love the fact that she is so entertaining and so grateful! I tell my girls that the more gratitude you give the more great things will come to you. Taylor Swift must have said Thank you to her fans for where she is today 20 times. She is so sweet, talented and entertaining and I thoroughly enjoyed being with my entire family!

Needless to say, we all slept in yesterday and Hayley and Grace were a tad bit late to school....well worth it! Grandma even called yesterday morning to give her love and hear how much fun the girls had at the concert. So fun!

Yesterday was filled with showings and DT tours. Can I just say how much I LOVE the Austonian. Yes it is the most expensive in DT Austin but it is a dream building. Beautiful finish outs, ever amenity you can think of, amazing service and the best views!


Unfortunately I did not get home until after 5 again, dinner was not ready and the fam was starving and the cold front came in. We ran to Blue Bamboo for some Thai....not much for me to order on the menu so I opted for Tom Ka, spicy coconut milk soup with tomatoes, onions and mushrooms. That was nice since the cold front came in....Then we ran to HEB to get some goods for the girls, cereal, junk food, all the stuff they love. I try to feed them well but they get tired of my "healthy options" So does Chris. Can you believe the basket of Junk....they were amused!




Today: up at 5AM for our Friday Hero WOD! I think my arms might fall off today. 50 pull ups, 400M run, 21 65lb thrusters, 800M run, 21 thrusters, 400M run and 50 more pull ups. Time 21:40! :) Proud of myself today!

Home at 6:40, had my favorite P90X® Results and Recovery drink showered quickly and threw together a delicious quick and easy paleo breakfast. Chopped red onion sauteed in coconut oil, whisk 4 eggs together with chopped smoked salmon (3oz) scramble eggs in with onions, add chopped parsley, capers and chopped tomatoes. Season with S&P and your favorite hot pepper sauce. This is a slightly modified version from my "Make it Paleo" cookbook!

Kids off to school and now I have got to get read! 9-10meeting, 10am 360 showing, 10:30 at the W residence, 11:30 at the Four Seasons, 3pm inspection for 360 back home for dinner, family pumkin carving and I have to make a pumpkin pie paleo style tonight! Then dusk showing at 8-8:15 at 360 and then back home for more family time! Love my husband for all his support and love my kids for being amazing! Thank you Lord for an amazing life you provide to us every day!

Don't forget to say Thank you every day for all your blessings!
Make it a great day
DB

The Day Gets Away From ME

Good Morning ALL,

I was so pumped to write yesterday and just could not find the time. My girlfriend, Emily, asked me the other day, where do you find the time to cook. Yesterday I found no time, after a 9am sales meeting, 12noon developer meeting, catching up on phone calls in the car on my way to preview a property for one of my clients who is in Afghanastan, setting up showing appointments for Thursday, following up with my sellers and trying to get a condo under contract that is not on the market yet it was 2:45pm. Had to rush to the school for a room mom meeting from 3-3:25 then off to middle school to pick up my 6th grader. Dropped her off quickly while chatting with tutor who was coming over to help Hayley with her reading, had to make sure we knew what all my precious baby needed to focus on. Grabbed 4 slices of turkey and ice water and ran back out the door at 4pm to make it to my 4:20pm showing in South Austin. By the time I was done it was 5 pm and I realized I did not have time to stuff the pork with garlic, season it and put it in the crock pot. It was supposed to have been cooking all day.....Hmmm what to do. Family will be starving, hubby will be starving! Pulling out of Johanna Street towards 1st street I see Polvos, one of the most delicious Mexican restaurants in South Austin. Is it Paleo? Of course not it is Mexican. Can I make it Paleo, YES!

I ordered everyone what they would want so the family could cheat...I on the other hand ordered steak fajitas with onions and pablanos, no rice, no beans not tortillas and headed home. I will say is very hard to not order a margarita or a beer while I sat there waiting for my food reflecting on my day thinking about everything I needed to do when I got home....I did not, I was good.

Needless to say, yesterday there was just no time.

This morning was great, 5am up and out to CSCCrossfit. We did some amazing things today. Power Shrugs, High Pulls and Squat Snatches, the girls (my CSC friends, Julie and Brandy) and I made jokes about being snatch happy, gotta be silly too! Not that easy, snatching a bar up the front of your body over your head and then squatting with it. 55lbs for me was about all I could take. Then our fabulous WOD. 15 muscle snatches, 20 box jumps and 25 "good mornings" time was 13:13. What is a good morning? I have never done one but is called good morning because apparently when you wake up the next morning your body will ache "GOOD MORNING" I will let you know tomorrow. The movement, you lift a weight bar over your head and rest it on your traps, slight bend in the knee, flat back, looking forward and you bend over to the ground and back up. Sounds simple and easy.....Lets see what my hammies say tomorrow!


Rushed home but 6:40am got girls up, started breakfast! Went for my new "Make it Paleo" cook book and make coconut nested eggs and breakfast sausage for hubby and me! Kids went for the cereal bowls (bought from whole foods, gluten free and they are eating it!!!)






7:25 Chris out the door with Grace and Hayley and Faith and I get to finish up in the kitchen, eating and cleaning. Then Faith surprised me and says "do we have any lettuce". Of course, in the fridge drawer, she grabs the butter lettuce. "is this real lettuce mom?" Yes my dear, there is no fake lettuce that I know of. So PROUD of her....she makes her first paleo lunch butter lettuce wrapped turkey bites. So cute and so healthy! So PROUD!




7:45 out the door to school....I cant find my keys so I have to use Chris's set. What's new, I always loose my keys. Home by 8:05, finally shower and hit the computer. Oops gotta find my keys. After searching the entire house, Chris calls me and says did you put the key finder on them that I bought your Christmas last year? Um Yes, but there were too many things on my keys so I took them off and that is in my car....Not gonna help. We chatted about it and I asked Saint Anthony to please help me find my keys. Sure enough I walk outside retracing my steps when I got home last night. Remembered I pulled a sign out of my back seat to put in the yard for a new listing....Keys found....In the back seat! Whew!

Today, I made time for paleo breakfast. I have a lunch appt and will eat at Toastie's a new fabulous sub shop in DT Austin. Here is the best part....they have a sub called Banh Mi with slow roasted pulled pork topped with pickled cucumbers, red onion, carrots, topped with fresh Cilanto, red chile and a squeeze of lime. They put it over salad for me instead....Perfect!

Tonight no cooking....Family Date Night!!!! Going to see Taylor Swift and will eat a treat at Maria Maria...I will make it paleo for sure!

Paleo and Kids

Many of you know how much I enjoy health and nutrition. I just wish my kids enjoyed it as much as I do. I realized this weekend while talking with some of my girlfriends how passionate I truly am about putting the right things in our bodies but making it taste amazing too.

I have these 3 beautiful little girls that are very active and I am always worrying about their nourishment. It comes only from my heart! Faith my oldest, is such an amazing young lady at the age of 11. So mature, so beautiful inside and out and has one of the most caring hearts. She loves her family more than anything and always wants to do the right thing. She is extremely active and fun, but I don't think she eats enough or feeds her muscles with the right foods. Even though I cook a lot of delicious good food for them, she does not go for it. My idea....lets cook and create together. Today was day 1 and we made a great breakfast full of protein and good fats, but all natural ingredients....SHE LOVED IT! We named it Poached Green Eggs. Inspired my by new cookbook "Make it Paleo" we started cooking. Green sauce is simply avocado, lemon juice, garlic and water ground in a food processor to create a yummy sauce to top on your poached egg. (by the way, I rarely measure anything)



Then there is gentle Grace, my sweet 8 year old (almost 9)!!! She will try almost anything but loves seafood. We started cooking Saturday night and created a seafood feast! Sushi, steamed crab legs and seared Ahi tuna. Okay, not many kids will eat seafood but this girl will. Grace has such a sensitive and sweet soul. She loves her family and her heart is filled when she gets quality time and hugs. She is one stunning beauty!!!! Just adore this girl and I am looking forward to cooking with her in the kitchen more often!!!



Ahh and the final munchkin of the group, Hayley Anne...aka Lunkins, Lunkers, Lunk the Dunk....Which ever on you say she will respond to. Funny story about this little girl is that when she learned her name she learned it as Hayley Lunkins Bodman. For years, probably until she was 3 1/2 maybe even 4 she swore her name was Hayley Lunkins not Hayley Anne. So adorable and our Beautiful Baby, now 6 almost 7! Hayley is full of life, fully aware of what is going on around her and is always thinking ahead. Watch what you say and do around this monkey because she will repeat!!! If we could all have the zest for life this girl does, we would all be so much happier. Hayley loves to eat and dance, we call her our entertainment! She can eat out anyone, ask my neighbors. They always say "how can that little girl put away so much food?" It must be from her dad! She too loves to help in the kitchen, her new favorite thing to do is to make Dad his coffee in the morning! Precious Girl.

The one that made it all happen....my husband! Chris is such an amazing man and hands down the BEST father any child could ever ask for. He is the oldest of 8 and I believe he is a kid magnet. He was a stay at home dad for a while when we lived in San Diego, CA. and I remember my girlfriends use to call me while I was at work and tell me how much fun they were having. Laying out by the pool and where were the kids....in the pool with Chris! Great Man! Chris is not a cook, not sure why not because his mom baked and cooks some amazing staples. Staples for his time growing up that surely he could have brought home to me but he swears to this day that he has NO CLUE how to cook....I get to figure them out when we visit the Bodman family and boy are they good. Chris likes to eat!!! He is the taste tester, the one who licks the bowl and the one that always asks for desert. He is my inspiration to figure out how to bake paleo deserts. To keep his sweet tooth happy without sugar, dairy or wheat. This is fun! My other love with this man is working out and staying fit. We enjoy intense crossfit workouts together and he pushes me to be stronger every day! I absolutely adore and love this man!

Before I leave you today, I have to mention my mom! Some of our baking and cooking is going to come from her but surely modified. My mother is an amazing cook. She taught me how to open up a pantry or a fridge and create something delicious out of "not having anything to eat" My goal is to modify and create it paleo style. Sharing my first, what I will call "soozi's sausage stir fry"

At my mom's one weekend (on the farm) they were all eating the normal pastas, breads, starches and meats. I ran to the store so that I could eat with them too. Sausage, green and red bell peppers, garlic, jalapenos, tomato's and red onions. Ohh and don't forget the avocados for toppings. I basically stir fried it all together in coconut oil, added salt, pepper and garlic powder, topped it with the avocados and delish! Paleo easy!


That is just a small intro to how this is going to go. I will cook with the girls, Chris will taste it all and hopefully we can all enjoy and learn from one another. I will mention many friends and family members throughout this blog as they are truly my inspiration!