My Creatively Random Life

I did not do an update last week because I was just chugging along on my step goal and nothing exciting was happening.  Just cranking out the same steps everyday though gets pretty boring as I am sure you know if you have tried it, even if you are training for something bigger.  Mike was looking for something to make our walks a little more interesting and he discovered that there is an app for Walking to Mordor.  Now if you have been around the blog for a while then you know that I attempted the Walk to Mordor before and lost interest in it because tracking it was not the easiest thing.  But guys, there is an app. So Mike and I are now in a race to Mordor and I am losing.  Badly for the moment but we are only 4 days in and things can change in an instant. Our rules for the challenge are as follows: 1) Anything that we count towards our progress must be done intentionally and counted separately from average day to day walking. 2) One must be carrying t...

Disclaimer: I received compensation or goods in exchange for this post.  All opinions, however, are 100% my own. As some of you know I hurt my knee at the end of February last year and it threw off my whole excising routine for much of the year.  Okay, I'll be honest...I'm still not really back on track yet.  I am getting there slowly though. Point to the story being that after fighting so hard to lose weight after having Cat being unable to stick with my routine threw me off and I slowly put on more weight than I care to admit over the last year.  Really does come on much easier than it works off eh? Ever since I purchased my FitBit last year I have been in love with tracking everything and I have noticed several things. I don't drink anywhere near enough water. I am majorly sleep deprived. When I track my food I eat better. I abhor tracking apps Enter  Lose Weight Without Dieting  my new favourite tracking app. It's t...

Reading is a popular activity in our house so I was excited for the chance to try out the FarFaria app which puts a library of over 800 children's books into the palm of your hand, so to speak.  The only question was what to install it on, I opted to put it on Ace's IPad so that it was accessible to both kids and it had the larger screen for my mom reading stories to Cat. So far, I have only gotten to play with FarFaria when I first installed it and read one story to Cat.  The kids have taken it over.  Cat loves that she can wonder off with it and use the Read-To-Me feature to read books that are above her level when everyone in the house is too busy to read to her. Ace's favourite thing about is that there are so many stories that they haven't read yet, and it was easy for him to steer Cat towards them.  No matter now many books you have repetition is apparently a huge problem when you have a little sister. My favourite things about it are that you can...