La Vida Lunch

Wanna join me for a bloggers lunch today?

This is what I'm serving:

That would be a chicken salad and homemade wheat bread, fresh from the oven.

I'm sipping a piping-hot cup of blueberry-green tea...with a splash of honey.

Tea?

Glad you asked.

I haven't been talking about it here on the net, but {{looking over my shoulders}} I'm trying to cut back on caffeine.

I've been feeling run down, and tired, and just a little "off". At first I thought it was sugar. Cuz sometimes if I get crazy with sugar consumption it can make me feel super tired and run-down.

But it wasn't that.

The truth is that its cold outside and I like be warm. Drinking coffee is such a warm, wonderful, thing.

Anyway, instead of drinking coffee all morning, then again with my lunch, and yet again with my afternoon snack (yes, I snack like a toddler in the afternoon) I decided to try to drink other hot beverages.

My first hot beverage of choice was to pull out the amazing recipe my dear friend Tracy sent me at Christmas. (Hi Tracy, my best friend from high school!) Its hot chocolate with some butterscotch schnapps and whipped cream added for a  delightful afternoon warmth.

Obviously, being a light-weight I wouldn't want to risk getting schnockered in the middle of the afternoon wasting all those calories just to keep warm, so I have been trying to drink herbal or green teas (along with decaf).

Once I got over the initial lack-of-caffeine period (I hate to use the word withdrawal since it has that whole "addiction" connotation) I'm feeling a lot better!

Ok, this is not where I intended this post to go....let's steer this ship around.

How's your lunch....more bread?

Its a rainy day here in the Carolina's and my part of school is finished.

Along with teaching I made the kids Sweet Biscuits for breakfast, and bread for lunch.

I have made my bed, and straightened the living room.

I washed, folded and put away three loads of laundry, with two more whirring as we type.

I've helped the kids get their chores done for the day, including the dishes, the sweeping of the kitchen floors and the vacuuming of the school room and the upstairs.

I am seriously considering cleaning the master bathroom, although the cleaning schedule says it doesn't need to be done until tomorrow.

Do you know why I am so very productive today?

I'm procrastinating. Big time.

My new shelves are painted and ready. And while the rest of the house is fairly tidy, my office has been neglected. To say the least.

I must organize and clean all of this....

Before I can get to this:

It's in moments like these when I wish I could twitch my nose like Tabitha and make everything magically go in place.

All right, my lunch is gone and since I have managed to encourage mid-afternoon drinking and witchcraft all in one post...I should probably sign off...

Can we blame it on a lack of caffeine?