This is a guest post from The Messy Baker.

One rainy summer day, unable to build blanket forts on the climbing bars or soar through the sprinkler on a tire swing, I decided my younger sister and I should do some baking. "Baking" meant raiding Mom’s pantry and dumping everything within reach into a bowl. Raisins, nuts, vinegar, flour, icing sugar, food coloring... There was no final dish in mind, just some frenzied sort of let’s-see-what-will-happen culinary experiment. If it looked interesting, we threw it onto the heap. Then stirred. More Here...

I served this fruit salad with the spicy Asian Chicken Sandwiches I made for dinner recently and they paired nicely together. The sweet and juicy fruit salad cooled down our mouths after bites of the spicy sandwich. I loved this combination of fruit together. The sauce was a combination of orange and lemon juice & zest along with some brown sugar and vanilla. It reduced down to a very flavorful sauce that topped the fruit perfectly. We all, kids especially, loved this fruit salad. More Here...

"Have patience in all things, But chiefly have patience with yourself." -- St. Francis de Sales

I know people have made it to the place I'm going, I hear the boasting of arrivals every day. I've seen them rejoice in their accomplishments and relax because their journeys have concluded. I taste the jealously of my heart with every passing mile marker, I feel the sense of urgency in my soul to continue on this road although I feel so alone. Every day I'm thinking of how to go faster without losing my grip, how to get there quicker; seems as though I'll literally never get there, but that won't stop me from giving it me all.

It seems when it comes to anything worth having and holding on too, that it takes an arm and a leg to get it. This goes for so many things in life, but for fitness especially. More Here...