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Twitter can be scary, but not at a party with your friends all over the world! Fit2B is throwing a twitter party today at 9:30pmET (6:30 p.m. PDT) and it will be 30 fast minutes of fun and prizes and silly questions about the core! All you do is get on twitter at the right time, follow me @fit2bmama and my twitter-pro assistant Dee @disneyinatweet and then search for #fit2b and/or #nomorecrunches and we’ll be there!!!

winners! winners! winners!

No party is complete with games and prizes, and we had a ton! My own children “helped” select the winners by calling out random numbers between 1-41 (since we got 41 comments on this blog) I simply went down this list of prizes, wrote down the numbers they called out, and lined them up with names! I’m announcing them on twitter and facebook today 5/2/13 and you have a week to claim your prizes with the creators.

MomBodFitness has graciously donated a FitSplint! WINNER: COMMENT #31 – TINA T.

I’m contributing some Isagenix goodies (chocolates & greens) that I love for cleansing my inner core and herbal detoxifying. WINNER: COMMENT #10 – LORI M.

Fit2B on Your Skin will be giving a sample of our NEW tummy formula for the skin that puckers when a diastasis heals. WINNER: COMMENT #30 – KIM F.

Natural Kiss is donating an all-natural herbal 4 oz. bug repellant… I chose this item. I hate bugs. WINNER: COMMENT #7 – MELINDA

Book Giveaway from Author, Lanaya Gore – Title: “Laying Down the Rails for Children: A Habit-Training Companion.” If you are a homeschooler and love Charlotte Mason, you’ll love Lanaya! WINNER: COMMENT #41 – KATIE K.

Herbal deodorant from Blessed in Homemaking! I use this and it’s awesome!!! WINNER: COMMENT #20 – BREANNA

Fit2B is also giving away ONE ultimate homemakers bundle that includes 2 months free to Fit2B! WINNER: COMMENT #2 – KRISTIN

AND ONE MORE!!! Author, Carey Jane Clark is giving away your choice of a digital or print copy of her novel, After the Snow Falls. WINNER: COMMENT #3 – LANAYA

Thank you everyone for making our first twitter party a huge success! You can still see some of it by going HERE to see all the hype!

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 Like many of us, Teresa is a mom whose goal is to keep her body strong and her abs flat the healthy, diastasis-aware way. However, not only is Teresa one of my founding members, but she also has such a unique and vibrant approach to her everyday fitness. Almost every day, she shares a picture on facebook of her daily lunch walk, and so I asked her to write about why she does it.

Taking pictures during her lunch time walks keeps Fit2B Mom Teresa motivated to stay in shape

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Our April, 2012 trip to Montana

Montana is a place of rugged beauty and stark contrasts: Immaculate Escalades with cattle-grill-guards parked next to beat-up Subarus still displaying blood stains from last year’s hunting season; the sharp cut of the Mission Mountains against the rolling plains; the dirt on the faces of beautiful children out playing in the fields; the poverty of shanty houses with luxury homes in the hills above; waking up to cows in our front yard… Not something that happens in our home town! My son claimed that red truck as his own…

On several mornings I was able to make oatmeal with rehydrated fruit on the woodstove. We used local honey as a sweetener.

It’s very exciting to have running water. You can see the 5-gallon tub we’ve been hauling water with. On this trip, my husband finished attaching the drain to the drain-field he dug on the last trip. The water is powered by batteries stored under the house which are in turn powered by our solar panel. He installed a switch under the sink, so can save energy when we don’t need water. No hot water yet…

The kids spent a lot of time on their grandparents organic farm just down the hill. My husbands parents raise much of their own food: gardening, raising cows and chickens and turkeys, and harvesting herbs that grow locally. They rarely go to town and get what they can’t grow from Azure Standard.

I guess you want to see a picture of The Shabin. It’s the lovely 12×20 2-level shabby blue shed that we’ve turned into a cabin. Here it is right before we left. We have to board it up to keep out the rats and … passers by. You can ready my other blog about Montana and The Shabin by CLICKING HERE

Here are more cows. It was calving season, and the field across from us was full of mamas and babies. Funny story: the cows would always gather at the fence and moo and beller at the farmer’s grey pickup truck as he loaded hay for them. Then they’d run along behind him as he drove the hay onto the field. Well, we also had a grey truck with us, and I made the mistake of coming by the field at feeding time. I thought they were going to stampede me! As soon as they realized I wasn’t driving the right truck, they went mooing and lumbering back to the other side of the field. Silly cows!

As I mentioned, my MIL raises chickens but not really for food. She adores them, especially silkies. This little puffball followed her everywhere. She made me sear I wouldn’t put a picture of her online, so I settled for my daughter holding “Angel” the chicken.

Here’s a close up shot… Like I said, she’s a fluffy little thing. You can barely see her beak!  

And here’s me, myself … Showing the sign my parents had made (I know you can’t really see it) … But it says welcome! And our friends certainly are!

I’d be honored to hear your comments or see this pinned. Thanks! Wait, here is one of my favorite pictures of the bluebird bus I can see from my kitchen window. Yes, it’s parked in the field, listing into a ditch. I’m not sure why someone in the family parked it there…

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All that online pilates and yoga paying me back in full during Portland to Coast 2011

I see my triceps meeting my posterior deltoids. I see the blur of the background as I leave it all behind me. I hear the rhythmic worship music blasting from my shoulder speakers. I feel my sweat-plastered shirt sticking to my sports bra … and I am proud. Because I am four months post-op from knee surgery, and I am doing 11:45 minute-miles for my Portland to Coast Team Toe Jammin’ #2100 … and our women’s team placed 6th!!!

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It’s a rap about organic food stores. It will leave you laughing and wordless, and it tells you where I’m at.

If you have no idea why I have deviated from my usual fitness rantings, you need to know about something special that happens on twitter on Wednesdays. Well, two things really. One is “Wordless Wednesdays” and “where in the world are you?” I decided to combine them this week with a video that will leave you wordless – laughing, but wordless. Plus, it will show you a piece of my culture. I don’t live in California, but we have a few of these stores nearby, and this is so utterly realistic.

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