sickies

I am sad to say that me and my family are experiencing our first colds of the season. Yuck! I can't believe this is happening already!! Brooklyn had a runny nose on Thursday. On Friday Kennedy was a little snotty and I was a full fledged snot factory. Jeff doesn't have it yet-but usually when one of us gets something like this we all do. SO today after Brooklyn's soccer game I made a huge pot of chicken soup and then some fruit smoothies for us to up our vitamin C consumption. I actually have been making smoothies a lot the last week or two and the girls have been loving them. Which is great news because I struggle with their nutrition quite a bit. I picked up a big bag of frozen fruit from Sam's and throw a bowl or two in the blender with a ripe banana cut up and a splash or two of almond milk and it's super duper delicious or bee yish ous and Kennedy would say. Because the fruit is frozen or partially frozen it's like ice cream to them. And I don't blend it a ton so it's still really thick. I've been trying to get them to eat smoothies forever but have been unsuccessful I think because of their texture issues. So frozen is where it's at man. Now I just need to find some yummy veggie juice recipes so I can start using my juicer. I have a sneaking suspicion that Kennedy may balk at that a bit. We'll see...in the meantime I would like to advise all my friends to carry around antibacterial lotion for your hands and clean your shopping cart handles and all that fun stuff that goes along with cold and flu season because it's here baby.