My life is in slow motion this morning. I slept in until 6:45 and didn’t get myself to the gym until almost 7:30, so now I’m rushing around like a crazy person. Typical, right? 
Anyway…
Breakfast was especially fabulous this morning. 
I had the ripest banana ever to add to my oatmeal. The key to soft, pillowy banana oats is definitely a super ripe one.
In the mix:
- 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats
- 1 cup water
- 1 tbsp ground flaxseed meal
- 1 ripe banana
- 2 scoops of Teddie peanut butter
I also drank an iced coffee with eggnog with breakfast. The eggnog added a TON of sweetness, so I didn’t need to add any agave nectar to my iced coffee. In fact, my iced coffee + eggnog was so sweet, I added even more iced coffee on two different occasions. A little eggnog goes a long way!
New Blog
So, I have some exciting news for you guys! I’m starting a new blog! 
As you know, I work at NuVal as a “social media strategist,” so having my very own company blog definitely makes sense for my position and responsibilities. Plus, as much as I believe in NuVal and support their system, I’d like to keep Carrots ‘N’ Cake separate. Of course, I’ll never be able to keep them truly separate since CNC is about my life, which includes working for NuVal, but ya know what I mean, right? 
I’m so excited to start a new blog! Ahhh! I hope to debut it within the week!
Question of the Day
Do you have a hidden talent? What is it?
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Can’t wait to see the new blog and the name you picked for it! As for a hidden talent…hmmmm…I am awesome at guitar hero!
Haha – I don’t know if i have any “hidden” talents. I can still do a back layout from when I took gymnastics as a kid! That’s pretty exciting
Haha
Yay for the new blog! So fun!
I really want to add some eggnog to coffee! It sounds so good!
haha, i don’t know many people that consider sleeping until 6:45 to be a late start… i wish i could get myself up at 5 like you do so i wouldn’t have to go sprinting into my day. alas, i am a sleeper.
I’m always rushing to leave in the morning, heck I’m rushing right now . . . good luck with the new blog!
Love adding eggnog to my coffee, reminder I need to get some!
Best wishes on the new blog, very exciting!!
Hidden talents?! Um… not sure, maybe its so hidden I don’t know what it is.
I love that you’re late time frame is ridiculously early compared to my normal day! I definitely commend you on that!
6:45 is nothing! I slept in til 8am today! My oats were particularly good today too, I don’t usually photograph breakfast but today I did
I’m in slow motion too. I think it’s the snow we have in MA.
Good luck with the new blog. I’m excited to see the happening’s!
My hidden talent is that I twirl a baton. I competed at the national level in high school and college. I can even twirl fire!
6:45 is pretty early for me, I am not a morning person at all. Can’t wait to see the new blog!
looking forward to the new blog!
I have no idea what my hidden talent is…. hmmmm….
I love egg nog! I’ve been getting egg nog mistos from Starbucks and it really puts me in the holiday spirit
hidden talent: i have perfect pitch! came in super-handy during my a capella days in college
I can wiggle my ears :O)
Congrats on now two blogs!! Yay! also….hidden talents…I think mine are always still hidden
Cannot wait to see the new blog — se exciting!
I can roll my tounge three times
Congrats on the new blog, should be fun to follow that one as well! Hidden talent? I am awesome at the running man and roger rabbit dance moves
Uber ripe bananas totally do make the difference in oatmeal. I only like eating greenish bananas (kinda weird huh?) so once they get yellow they become destine for my oats.
Hidden talents…I can play the piano but I try not to tell people that because after 13 years of practice I should be a whole lot better than I am!
My hidden talent is that I can speak Swedish! We lived there when I was younger and I’ve worked hard on keeping it up!
I love to sing show tunes! I was a vocal performance major (before switching to English Lit) in college… Every now and then, I have a little too much wine and decide to perform for people… then I end up so excited I just keep going and going… and then I wake up the next morning and smack my head like “Did I sing show tunes for 45 minutes last night in front of all our friends?!!” Embarrassing!
Can’t wait to hear the details on the new blog! I love the idea of adding eggnog to your coffee – fun spin on it for the holidays.
Hey Congrats on the new blog….what fun!
Oh, I luv noggy coffee’s…yum!
Enjoy!
Congrats on the new blog! I look forward to reading both of your blogs. I don’t know if I have a hidden talent..hmmmm.
sounds like a neat upcoming project!
my “hidden talent” would have to be my ability to roll my belly. it’s really strange… not sure if it’s exactly a talent though.
I’m always in slow motion in the morning. I am NOT a mornign person.
Eggnog coffee? Sounds amazing!
For some reason eggnog always grossed me out, but I wonder if now that my taste buds have changed I should try it again…. we will see.
I can do a mean robot dance
Oh, rushful mornings…I’ve been having a lot of those, myself, lately! At least your breakfast looks relaxing and amazing!
Exciting news on the blog!
Oh, and I’ve been playing the piano since I was pretty small, but that’s about my only “hidden talent.”
yeah for a new blog!
My hidden talent is finding things. Hunni loses stuff all the time and I am able to find it with no problem. He acutally stops looking and just lets me find it.
I know this may be a odd post, but I was wondering how the weather was in NYC during January? I want to go for the first time on my 30th birthday, but everyone is saying it is so cold. Right now it is about -8 degrees where I live, so when I hear people saying it is cold I think that may be relative. Thanks in advance!
I used to be incredible with the hula hoop, though who knows if I still am? My one enduring talent: I make a scary realistic pig noise. It’s a really low, gutteral noise that comes from the back of my throat. It’s actually uncomfortable to make but it’s pretty freaky.
Can’t wait to see the new blog!
Can’t wait for the new blog! my dad does eggnog in hot coffee for the whole christmas season (and with maple syrup the rest of the year!)
my hidden talent is probably the ability to talk anyone into anything – my friends joke i could sell an eskimo ice!
and i would love the apron bc I’m in college and always baking and its so cute and fun and not dowdy!
I feel like I have been in slow motion all day too! I think it totally has something to do with this fine weather we are having in Boston right now! yuck, right?!
I can’t wait to see the new blog. My hidden talent is that I can draw tattoos and tribal designs. I used to do it when I was younger and have stopped. Now that I’m older, no one suspects that I have this hidden talent. Oh, and I can speak Spanish.
congrats on the new blog! you are going to be one busy girl!!
no hidden talents here… im boring.
“Pillowy banana oats”? Great description!!
Congrats on the new blog!!
My hidden talent “a water witch”. Yup, I can find underground water with metal rods.
congrats on the new blog!
Can’t wait to see the new blog! I don’t know about any hidden talents, but I do have an excellent memory!
Hidden talent? I make the bombiest omelettes! So I guess it’s not exactly hidden, but it’s the only thing I could think of…
Congrats on the new blog!
My hidden talent would be my sport which, unfortunately, needs to stay hidden on the blogs
Can’t wait to see your new blog!!
I am not sure about hidden talents. I am a good cook and writing things concisely comes very easily to me.
eggnog to coffee sounds great. Congrats on the new blog I’m sure it will be fabulous like this one.
I wish I had a hidden talent. Maybe I do I just haven’t figured it out yet. At least that is what I am going to keep telling myself.
My goodness you will be busier than ever with a new blog can’t wait to see it. If I have a hidden talent, well let me tell you it must be well hidden as I have not found it yet lol!
I’m really good with directions. Although I guess that’s not exactly a hidden talent. My finance can wiggle his ears.
Oops, not my finance. My fiance. I always spell that wrong!
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