Happy Monday! I have lots to tell you about, so I decided to smash them all into one post. First, I am pretty excited about one of my recipes being featured on Shape Magazine’s website. The freelance writer who put the piece together contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I would mind if she used my stir fry recipe for a story on Shape.com. Would I mind?…
Remember the pretty plants I got from the farmer’s market last month? Well, they are growing nicely, and we were able to harvest our first Juliet tomato yesterday. Juliets are like grape tomatoes, small, long and deliciously sweet. They grown in clusters, but this one was all alone because of eager little hands that picked the first two when they were still green. Joe got the first taste. “Mom, that’s…
Leila has been sick this week. Poor squeaker has almost no voice. Instead of thinking about everything I could be doing right now, I am choosing to be thankful that I am the one who gets to snuggle with her. As much as I want to complain about lack of sleep, I choose to be thankful that I get to hold her hand and make her feel better. And now,…
How do you help your kids want to eat more vegetables? The simple answer is to offer them more vegetables. Sound too easy? I promise, it’s not. Research has actually shown that the kids who are offered more vegetables eat more vegetables. Makes sense, right? But sometimes it doesn’t seem so easy, especially when you hear moans and groans from kids at the dinner table. Here are five ways to…
Birthday month is finally over. Joe is now 5, Leila is now 3, and I am now tired. Jeff’s birthday in March begins birthday month where we have 3 birthdays and many more celebrations, including Easter, in a span of 30 days. For someone who doesn’t like to bake, I’ve made a lot of cakes and treats this month. One of the most popular of the non-baked items that I…
Happy Birthday Joe! Today you turn 5, and there are some things about this age that I never want to forget. When someone asks you what your favorite color is, you say, “Blue, and black, and white…and pink, and purple, and orange, and I like ALL the colors!” It seems like you have inherited my inability to make a decision (sorry about that). You love to go to school. You…
Last month it hurt me to walk a 5k. A few months before that, it hurt me to turn over in bed. Last Friday I ran for 20 minutes and felt great. I am so thankful. You should have seen the look on my chiropractor’s face yesterday when I told him that I had run for 20 minutes. I think his exact words were, “What are you trying to do…