I’m sorry for showing this salad AGAIN, but I can’t stop eating it.  I made it without avo this time, which was definitely not as good, but compensated by eating tripe the amount of candied walnuts.  I had to save the barely ripe avocados for dinner that night though. For dinner I made use of the rest of the crab meat I had from this dinner.  Wow that was a long time ago.  Hence the need to use the crab. I got these spring roll wrappers at Nugget the day before but when I opened… Read more >

After a busy week away for Kyle, he was all about staying home this weekend and I was totally on board.  The weather was AMAZING, too.  It felt like Spring (or early Summer!!?) and I was loving it.  So much time in the backyard getting my Vitamin D doses.  Happy happy hippie. Happy happy kids. I had chocolate buckwheat waffles for breakfast while Kyle took the kids to Home Depot for the monthly craft.  I’ve talked about that program on the blog before.  Having Saturday mornings to myself has become an unspoken thing that Kyle tries… Read more >

The only photos I have from the morning are of the kids making sparkly slime.  I ate buckwheat chocolate waffles and brought a coconut milk chai tea with me on the go in my beautiful pink yeti. GREEN! Since I’m out of butternut squash, I swapped in roasted Brussels sprouts.  The rest of this salad was the same as the past few days’ with kale massaged with balsamic vinaigrette, candied pecans, dried cranberries, and avocado. I finished the Brussels so now our fridge is devoid of roasted veggies.  I’ll fix it this weekend, but until… Read more >

We usually go to library story time on Tuesday mornings but I wasn’t in the mood to go after our fiasco the night before.  So instead I dragged my butt to stroller strides.  I’ve been having arch issues in my left foot which may be contributing to my lackluster efforts in the exercise department so it was good (and very necessary) to be out with a group of friends pushing me to actually exert myself.  Also, I needed to unload all my emotions about our freak incident that landed us in the emergency room.  Phew! … Read more >