Taking My Body Back! 310 Shake Style!

As many of you know I started a few new journey's 

this year. 

One of which was the 310 Shakes!

These are my first bags and well I can honestly say I do not know if I am a fan yet. 

This is my first shake I have made sense my trial I got with my free shaker online. 

( FYI read the fine print if you get the free trial then you you will get another order taken out of your account 2 weeks later of $128 for your first month supply. )

First thing is first!

I got my trail pack and my shaker, which I love my shaker I don't know why but I really do love it!

I messed up big time! 

It says you can add 12 oz of water  or Milk.

okay here is the facts

DO NOT ADD WATER! 

it is NOT good with water it is nasty in fact and I almost threw up when I tried it. However my husband was there with me which meant I had no choice but to drink it all. Even though I almost threw up more then once trying to drink it all and keep it down. It was AWFUL! 

So please take my advice and Do Not try it with water. 

It might mess you up and make you not want to buy a larger bag and try it again. 

I have heard very positive things about this shake!

However I almost didn't get my large order thanks to that very BAD experience. Which at this point might have been a mistake. 

 I got my first monthly order yesterday evening and I decided to wait until today to give it another try.

 The above picture is from today and it was Much better made with milk! ( any kind of milk it doesn't matter in my opinion. 

I will admit that it is kind of grainy unless you shake it a lot or blind it in a blinder which I think you should do . 

As for right now I think that these shakes ( the second round ) taste pretty great. I got the strawberry one and it was great. 

I would 100% tell you to give this shake a try. As far as weight lose I can't not say yet if it in fact works however keep on reading 

and we will find out together!

Tomorrow I will be starting to try some new recipes.

Thanks for starting my Taking my body back  with 310 shakes journey! 

and feel free to email or comment with any questions or products you have tried! I would love to hear from everyone! 

If you want to try the shake the link is below!

Get Your Free 310 Trail With Free Shaker!

**  UPDATE! ** 

Y'all I couldn't not update y'all, after drinking 2 shakes! Today I have more energy then I have had in a very long time. 

I know that being a mom it drains your energy. 

Running around with kids all day, cooking, cleaning and trying to be a great Army wife leaves me with no energy or even the desire to do anything but sleep. 

Being a mom is hard work, it is more work then any on could understand unless they are a mom. ( or dad )

My energy is threw the roof and I feel better all around. I'm not saying my experience is the same as everyone else.

I am the kind of woman who likes to sit at home watching work out videos while I am eating junk food kind of lady. 

I don't work out really, I am a mom and that is my life I do not have a lot of time to be working out.

I know I sound like one of " those" wives/mom. 

I can't wait until tomorrow to try some of these new recipes! I will see y'all tomorrow! 

From The Eyes Of A Convert!

             Growing up the way I did in a gypsy style life there was never room for God or the love of God. There was only room to survive from day to day in what ever manner you had to. Being thankful for only those who at that moment were in your corner to help you. Knowing that they would soon move on to someone else's corner. There was no help I thought explaining why we would bounce from town to town which meant Church to Church. Leaving me lost as could be even though I knew what Church I belonged to. There was never a question about the Catholic Church however still I floated along trying to find my place. 

                                                      

             I have felt the pull to take RCIA classes as an adult to reconfirm my Faith.

                                 First off for those who do not know RCIA stands for.

                                                  Rite

                                                      of

                                                 Christian

                                                 Initiation

                                                     of

                                                 Adults

RCIA is the process that takes place along the Spiritual path to Chris. Normally entering into and " inquiry " process for a few weeks to a few months. A sponsor will be assigned to you if you of not have someone to be your sponsor.  When you, your sponsor and at least one member of the RCIA team and the Pastor feel you are ready to take the next step. You will go through a liturgical Rite called " Acceptance " for those not Baptized or " Welcome " for those who are. 

After spending any where from a few months to a year or more during which you will learn and study Christian faith and the Catholic practice of living it out. Things like the Mass, The Sacraments, The Scriptures, prayer and everything else is covered. 

If you are not Baptized during the Lenten season you will be participate in the " Rite of Election " and will begin an internal reflection process preparing for the Sacraments of Initiation at the Easter Vigil. 

If you are already Baptized you will participate in the " Rite of Continuing Conversion "

and start to be received into full communion with the Church by receiving the sacrament of the Reconciliation ( Confession ) Either at Easter Vigil or on another Sunday will receive Confirmation and first Communion.

All who are received into the Church or who are Baptized at Easter then spend a year in Mystagogy.

Meeting in the Small Christian Communities in the homes or else where to reflect on your experiences and learn from one another. 

At 28 years old I decided to start this process all over and for me its as if I can feel the joy I once did as I learn about God, The Holy Mother and the love. Its been a long time sense I have truly felt as if I am part of the Church. Maybe it wasn't the Church maybe it was all me all along.  I know I could go through my own Church to do the classes however many people have been asking how they can do the classes in their own home. I worked very hard to find a place where everyone can do just that. 

The Catholic Home Study Services are the only ones that I know of that are helping people do these classes in their own homes, office, park or where ever you choose to take your journey at.

RCIA in your home   ( Click the link to get started learning about where to start on your journey )

Thanks for joining me on this journey.... here we go! 

Lost in life , lost with in myself

Who am I?

What do I want to do in life?

Where do I want to be in 5 years?

These are questions I have been faced with all my life more so today then any other day of my life. 

I can honestly say I do not know who I am or what I want to do with my life. 

At 28 years old I still feel like a teenager waiting on my life to start. Out side of my family I can not say that I have much of a life or life goals. I want to be able to stay at home with my kids. Raise my children and home school my kids all while I am working to support myself and my kids. I know my husband does a great job  of taking care of us as it is however why should he?

Why should he have to pay all of the bills and do everything on his own when he and I are meant to be a team? 

Why can't I find a job working while I am staying at home with my kids. 

Here is my problem I do not have a college degree nor do I have much when it comes to training.

I don't want too be a customer service  worker or a call center agent. That is just NOT the life for me and I just can't do it. 

So what are my options really?

I have searched the internet up and down and well all around. 

So far I have found  that there pretty much are NO jobs out there besides selling random products.

Don't get me wrong I love to buy from those ladies when I am on the hunt for some new products to try. ( I love Mary Kay make up remover )

However that is not a career that is like the updated door to door sales man and that is not the life for me. 

I am a Military spouse so I can't be working long hours when my children need me at home. 

I can't go to school for years in order to get a job. I need money to start coming in now.

Christmas is coming and I feel like I need to help pay for everything. 

Here is what I have found out!

1. you can go to college and find a job at home

2. No I am not making a joke

3. You can make it in sales it take A LOT of work but it can be done.

4. There are a lot of career fields where you can work from home.

5. don't allow being a Military life to stop you from reaching your goals

6. you can get help for paying for college or what ever trade school you pick to go to. you can also get help  not only paying for school as well as paying for a few other things that you need. 

Don't let this life stop you from living your life!

You can do anything you want to do no matter where you are. you can do anything you set your heart for. 

Military Life .... Wife of the Guard

Long work hours

being called in on his day off

never ending training 

no contact while he is at work

praying nothing happens where he is harmed

These are things that every Military wife has to deal with every day of her life. Normal to some and very stressful to even think of to others. 

For a new wife the stress of this life can be a change she thinks shes ready for but trust me you can never really be ready. 

Ifs a life style as that no one can understand unless they have lived this life. Even then its hard to understand how times have changed. Even with the pro wives things are never they same. Every different MOS in the Military brings its own set of challenges.

For us right now that means that I had to learn as much as my husband had to learn about his new MOS.

My husband is Guard in a Military prison which whens he works long hours and we have no contact the moment he walks out the door. There is no being able to call him and see how he is. No calling him if something goes down  and I need him home. He can't come home and I am all on my own here. I thought that he worked a lot when he was stationed in Korea. I thought that was hard even though the kids and I were not there with him. Boy was I wrong he seems to work a lot more now then he ever did back then. 

12+ hours of no contact and we never know when he will be working so we just try to go with the flow. 

I looked up a lot of information about how things work for a 31E wife. There was little to no information out there to help us. To tell us what to expect or even lacked in groups of other wives out there.

There was little to no information to help me along my way. I spent my days searching the internet looking for any connection. Only to find that their were more groups of Prison wives then I thought their could be. However their was hardly any groups for Guard wives. 

It was honestly hurtful and I felt like I was all alone. I had no FRG, no friends who understood or anyone to lean on. 

I thought that maybe I would find some place to belong once we moved to our next duty station where the kids and I could be with my husband. 

Once again I found myself beyond wrong. Yes I live near a post where pretty much everyone is a Guard wife however these wives were like no other. 

They were like a tribe of ladies raising their children together. With their husbands always working what other option do they have? 

To become part of this group has been hard to put it nicely. I have been here for  around 6 months now and still I feel alone. 

I have yet to make friends, yet to really meet anyone and I feel lost. 

I find myself  remembering that I wanted to be part of the FRG yet there seems to not even be an FRG here. The spouse club has not be active really sense we came right as they  were ending their year. Hopefully they will be starting back up in the next 30 days. 

My husband is gone all the time and I just hate this. 

Being a guard wife sucks however I love my husband and I know that his career will change with time. He already talks about how he wants to make a change no to his MOS but to what he is doing right now. 

Things every wife should know about the 31E life

1. Your husband will work a LOT!

2. you will be stuck dealing with everything

3.This MOS has a very high divorce rate

( yes I said that and it is true! for those of us who are new to this life it is hard but just because they say we get divorced more doesn't mean you will get divorced. )

4.being independent is VERY important

5. you are NOT alone 

( we are working on getting a better network together for wives of 31E's , Military Guard wives connect with us! feel free to email me I am here for you! )

6. Just because they say that they can get their new duty station with in the first few weeks if not before he goes to Korea... 

don't believe that. 

A lot of the guys don't get their new duty station until the last 30 days they are there. 

If you have any questions feel free to email me at any time with any questions. this will not be my last post about 31E wives!

Catholichomeschoolingarmywife@gmail.com

I love her .... but I love to Fish!

      Those words drive me nuts! As I know it does many others.

I will admit I never thought I would have this problem more then ONCE in my life time!

My husband loves to fish and he is NOT picky about where he fishes or what he is going to fish for at all!

To think that Hunting and fishing can be the cause of a few divorces.  The neglect of someone always leaving on their free time in order to go hunting and fishing. I grew up in the south and trust me hunting and fishing is a huge a part of life. Not only with the men but the woman as well. 
Deer, camo, duck calls, guns, fishing poles and  learning to bate a hook at a very young age.
Our girls learn to bate a hook and shoot a gun at a young age.
The boys well lets just say they are born to hunt and fish and learned that when they get the chance they should always do it. That this should be a way of life , a way to relax. A way to spend time with your family every chance you could get.
Now to think that people are getting divorced over it.
My husband loves to hunt and fish though I will not lie I did not know this at the time we got divorced. He was unable to get any free time to do so back then.
I  totally understand that we as wives and mothers need time. Time with our husbands and time as a family for our children. However maybe just maybe its time to take a piece of advice I was given before I got married. Something that I feel like many of us male and female need to know and remember.

" Love what your spouse loves, if you do not yet love it take the time to learn to love it. For then and only then can you truly love your spouse. We all need to put more effort into our marriages."

Fishing that annoying monkey that never seems to stay off of our backs. Going and watching  a man fish is one thing. However understanding it is a whole other thing.
Different kinds of  fishing hooks, weight of lines , kinds of fishing poles and the information just goes on and on. Never ending information that husbands seem to keep in their heads and act as if we all should know it too. I do not ask my husband to remember all of my recipes, the products we all use every day or the amount of food we all eat every month. Yet I am looked onto remember all of the crazy fishing stuff. I am over it and Lord knows I cant remember all over it even if I try. 
I sit there smiling and taking pictures with out saying a word knowing that as soon as I say a word. He will look on to me as to say that I know I am going to scare all of the fish away. 
I do not fish though I have tried so hard to learn to love fishing. I sit their in my comfy camping chair with the pretty pink head rest that allow me to lean back and write as my husband and children fish the day away. 
His passion makes my heart smile, as my daughter says, he loves the peace of fishing. The catching and release of the the fishing game. A fun and loving thing that he has learned to do sense he was a child. His memories of  fishing with his grandfather in his younger days before his late grand father would take him out to fish.

My advice take what he loves and try to make it your own. In what ever way it is you have to do that. My husband loves to fish and I love to write so I write and take pictures while they fish the day away. I also love boats and want to buy one.... well it makes things easier if I make it out like its all about his fishing. I get a new boat and he gets to think its a gift for him. That way I can cruse on the boat, tan and enjoy the day while my kids and husband fish. Its a win win. I love my husband and my little fishing munchkins. I will be unhappy if they are unhappy so when making them happy I also get to be happy. Thus I win and life is good. My husband is hunting for a boat as I type. 

Life is good!

4th of July!

Happy Fourth Of July Everyone!

Back home we use to go see fire works, have a BBQ, go to a fair , or some kind of big event. Sense leaving our home state we have had to find new ways to spend our time.

For our family today was a pretty great day in spite of the fact that my husband once again , as always had to work.

We went to the Fort Leavenworth M.W.R event and we had a blast. All of the games, lots of friends and families all around. Even though we were unable to spend the day with any of our family we had each other and that's what matters. 

For us every day is Fourth Of July. 

We spend our days teaching our kids about this great country of ours and what makes it so great. 

Is shocks me to know that so many children or people for that matter believe that the day is all about fire works and seeing if you can drink yourself into a state of stupidity. 

For the first about 20 years after the Declaration of Independence was sign it was not something that was celebration. It wasn't until 1870 that Congress first declared  July 4th as a national holiday. 

It was a bill to officially  recognize several holidays including Christmas, further legislation  about national holidays was not passed until 1939 and 1941.

We all need to start teaching our children and even our selves the history of our great country. If we don't share our past with children then it will be long forgotten. Keep the past alive and teach your children about everything that made this country so great.  Help form the future of our country! 

Happy 4th of July everyone. 

Cheesy Joe's ( Recipe below! )

YES!

You read that right!

Cheesy Joe's!

Dump and Go Dinner!

I have been searching for something new and simple to make for me little ones!

It is AMAZING! and you can put in the crock pot and forget it!

1 pound of ground beef ( or what ever amount you want )

Velveeta Cheese block ( the whole block )

cut up in to small cubs

add the ground beef ( I cooked mine first )

and the cheese together in the crock pot.

you can also add diced

*peppers

*Onion

*tomatoes

pretty much anything you want!

My kids loved it! they ate with no fighting or

complaining about how they wanted something different.

I am so use to hearing people talk about how their kids always seem to want the basic mac & cheese and chicken nuggets.

My kids gave this recipe a 100%

Kid Approved rating!