Update, Salsa, Smart Cars and Kohlrabi

Does the weekend have to be over already??

This weekend definitely had it's good moments and it's hard! Things are kind of crazy right now since Erik's dad has been sick. Since I haven't given an update, he's got a type of cancer, Multiple Myeloma, so at the moment he can't do much on his own because 5 of his vertebrae are broken in his back due to the cancer. He started chemo on Friday and so far it's going well. Needless to say, it's made life feel hectic and hard lately, but we take it day by day and do what we have to do! : ) Thanks for keeping him in your prayers.

Anyways, on Saturday we got to "get away" for a few hours and went to KC. We, of course, stopped at Whole Foods to eat and grab Erik's dad some food to bring back. Yum, yum! Recently, we were just joking about Smart Cars and then we actually got to thinking about it and we decided to test drive one to see what they were actually like. I really like my car and have only had it for a year so I don't know that I would want to get a different one. I don't know that it'd be a smart thing to do, and I don't know that I'd have a good reason to sell my car and get a Smart Car, other than I like them and in the long run it would end up saving us some money in car payments. However, I really don't know that it'd be something we'd actually do. None the less, we thought we'd try one out before we thought anymore about it at all. So here I am .... It was such a fun little car to buzz around in! Ha, I loved it. And they're actually a lot more spacious feeling inside than you'd think. Surprisingly enough, Erik even really liked it, and was more comfortable in it then my current vehicle (a Scion XB). It's ironic because he always complains about the seats in my Scion hurting his back but he was really comfortable in the Smart Car. Who would have thought? Ha. They're also neat because you can drive them as a stick or automatic.

If nothing else, it was a fun thing for us to do after a hectic, busy week and another one on the way. My mother-in-law made tons of salsa this weekend and gave us a bunch ... thanks, Linda!! : ) It's very tasty!!! I had some on a toasted piece of sprouted bread with a Laughing Cow cheese wedge and it was SO good!! And last but not least, here are some veggies I picked up this Sunday for the surplus of our church's community garden. Some yellow tomatoes and kohlrabi. (I was SO excited to see kohlrobi there!) Anyways, hope you all had a wonderful weekend and I can't wait to continue my Lifting and Clean Eating series this week! Here's Part One in case you missed it! ; )

"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
-Mother Teresa-