Diets are stupid!

I just got back from the grocery store because I'm going to try and do a low/no carb diet for the next couple of weeks. Talk about hard work just to get through the store! I'm not really a fan of dieting but we're going to Mexico soon, and I'm really needing all the help I can get right now. I usually just rely on moderation, but since the weather won't co-operate and warm up, I'm still in winter hibernation eat to stay warm mode which does NOT equal look good in a bathing suit.
Anyway, I've got a few things to get me started. I promise not to make my blogs about my day to day hits and misses with a new diet. Nothing says, "holy crap that's boring!" like a blog about what I had for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I'll just let you know when I can finally put on the pair of jeans that have been laughing at me for months.

About Me

Writing my About Me box was a lot harder than I thought it would be. It's pretty difficult to think of just the right things to say about yourself to make people interested enough to stick around and read but at the same time trying not to come across as too desperate to have people stick around and read.
As I thought about my About Me box today and what I had written last night, it brought up a memory which has been stored away to the all time Top 10 memories section of my brain. For my birthday this past year, I asked for plane tickets for my daughter and I to go visit my best friend in Pittsburgh, PA. After we arrived and were settling in to my friend's apartment, my daughter Aidyn started asking questions. She's 3 so she's really interested in how people are related to her and how they fit into her life. Aidyn wanted to know just how Karen fit into her life. We started to explain that "Auntie" Karen was Mommy's friend, but Aidyn being pretty darn smart cut right to the chase and asked, "Auntie Karen, are we family?" "Yeah. Yeah, Aidyn, we're family".
That short conversation pretty much sums up my About Me box. My family is #1 and my friends are my family. To me it's all one and the same.

What would your About Me box say?

Let's give this a shot!

So, I'm not sure I actually have anything interesting to blog about, but I guess we'll see. I may just be talking to myself here. What is it I want to blog about? Well, the things that mean the most to me...friends/family and food! Family is #1 and food is #2. I don't consider myself a foodie or anything, I just love to cook and I really love to eat. I've always felt that a lot of our memories are tied up in the things we've had to eat and vise versa. I hope this blog becomes a place to preserve some of my families best memories and tie it to some really great recipes. Like I said, I could be the only one reading this, but I'm okay with that.

Here goes nothing...