Show Off Your Cottage Monday

Welcome to "SHOW OFF YOUR COTTAGE MONDAY", a blog party I host at the beginning of each week to celebrate the things we love about our homes and how we live.

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Hi everyone! It's official! The cozy season has arrived! Have you seen the Fall Fairy buzzing around your house yet? Well yes!! She's been everywhere helping around with all there is to do with fall decorating, baking, embellishing, and just feathering up our nests for the season! She's certainly been here at The house in the roses!

And she's all over blogland too! Would you like to come with me and see what she's been up to! Can't wait to see what you've been doing this week! Last week was another fantastic party! I am enjoying seeing all the creative ideas and projects you are sharing! Here are a few for the review:

A Daily Cup from Mrs. Olson: shared a cozy nook dressed in autumnal colors.

From my front porch to yours shared her fall mantel display and cozy dinning room.

Northern Nesting shared her lovely front porch and entrance decorated for fall...

Cabin & Cottage shared some lovely white fall decor... love it!

Dwellings shared some romantic fall vignettes...

Blessings from our nest shared a lovely fall mantel.

If you were featured here, please feel free to grab the

"I was Featured" button here:

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I wanted to say welcome new party goers

as well as say thank you to all my party friends
for taking the time to come over and share your wonderful
links each week!

THANKS SO MUCH!

Sharing with these lovely gals!

Eat More Fruits and Veggies

Hello!  I am back today with another quick health tip but first I want to know if you drank more water yesterday and today! 

How did it go?  Do you feel better yet? 

Today,  I want you to keep on drinking more water but I want you to add fruits and vegetables.  Fresh is the best but if this is new to you, cooked would be an improvement to!

DAY 2: EAT MORE FRUITS AND VEGGIES

This might be easy for some of you and for others, this might be very difficult.  It is recommended that half your meal is from fruits and veggies. 

We try to add a fruit and veggie with every meal if we can.  For example, this morning we made eggs with onions and fresh salsa with fruit on the side.

We have found if you put it out, the kids will eat it.  They actually like it!  Just try not to buy all the bad foods. (That is a whole other post by itself.)

If your kids don’t like fresh fruit or veggies, try to make it fun looking…

Just make it available for your family so you won’t grab the junk!

Everyone loves a veggie tray.  If you hate cutting vegetables, this is a great option.

I shared a lot of recipes with you!

You can add fruit to your yogurt.

You can sneak veggies into a wrap.

You can sneak strawberries into your pancake breakfast.

You can make a fruit smoothie.

And then freeze your leftovers into a popsicle.

You can add cucumber into a chicken pita.

You can make a fresh nacho platter.

You can make a delicious Black Bean and Corn Salsa.

You can make your own homemade applesauce.

You can make a strawberry, mandarin orange salad.

You can make your food fun.

You can make yummy sides for your roast.

You can make a Greek Cucumber Tomato Salad.

You can make Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp.

You can make Cranberry, Walnut & Gorgonzola Salad.

You can make a healthier Mac & Cheese.

You next goal is to add fruits and vegetables with every meal for you and your family!  

You can do it!

Do you eat fresh fruits and veggies with every meal?

Have a healthy day!

Bonnie :)

Water: Do you Drink Enough?

Hello everyone!  I am so excited about this new series!!!

I am joining the Nester with her 31 Days of Change and I really want to help you and your family make small changes daily during October.  Some posts will be short and to the point and others might have more detail.  

Like I explained here, I am Certified Personal Trainer and really enjoy helping people getting healthy, fit and toned!  So if you want that, then join me here this month and don’t forget to grab a button for your blog too!

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Today is day one and I wanted to share an easy and free tip that can really help you achieve better health today!

DAY 1: Drink Water

I know this might sound dumb to some of you. 

But you need to ask yourself:

“How much water did I drink so far today?”

“Do I measure how much I drink daily?”

What did you answer?  Was it good or bad? 

Go grab a glass of water and come back to finish reading this!

Ok, now ask yourself this:

“Do I feel hungry?”

“Do I have lots of energy?”

“Am I  fatigued?”

“Do I have a headache?”

“Do I have a dry mouth?”

“How many times do I go to the bathroom each day?”

“Do I have dry skin?”

“Do I get dizzy?”

If you answered YES to some of those questions, you may be 

dehydrated! 

Did you know that if you are thirsty today, it is because you didn’t drink enough yesterday?  Are you drinking your water yet, lol?

Here are of important things water can do to help your body:

• Transports nutrients and oxygen into cells
• Moisturizes the air in lungs
• Helps with metabolism (hey, who doesn’t want help with their metabolism)
• Protects our vital organs
• Helps our organs to absorb nutrients better
• Regulates body temperature (I think as women, this is huge, right?
• Detoxifies (I love to detox!)
• Protects and moisturizes our joints

So, How much water should you drink each day?  

Well, 6-8 glasses a day is recommend but a rough rule of thumb is to drink 1/2 ounce of water for every pound per day.  You will need extra if you workout, if you are pregnant or a child. 

Tip:  

If you are trying to lose weight,  drink a glass of water immediately right when you wake up. (I keep one on my nightstand.) This will help flush toxins and jump start your metabolism each morning!!

What kind of water should you be drinking?  

Well, we love our Reverse Osmosis System but you can also use a filter like this one because it will remove the bad stuff including lead (the only one on the market) and it will save a lot of plastic bottles by not buying the individual water bottles.

So, what do you think?  Can we all make sure that we drink enough water today?

Now, go drink your water to better health today!!

Bonnie :)