I love me a long weekend! On Friday I drove to and from Fremont.  It’s the first time I’ve done it all in one day without going to my parents’ place on Thursday for a half way point reprieve.  It was do-able though, because we were only there for one single up-dose (as opposed to the full 5 hours that a bunch of updosing would require).  We left at 6:45 am and arrived at the Fremont Starbucks by 8:30 am. NO. NO. Notorious. We passed the time with the usual bag of tricks…and I brought… Read more >

I just found this post in my drafts folder.  FROM two years ago!  It was so fun to read it because even though so much has changed, at the same time, so little has changed. Here’s a glimpse into March of 2016…   El Nino is something else.  We swap extremes in weather with the East Coast seemingly every other week or so now.  It was gorgeous sunshine at the outset of March and then we had a two week stretch of gross that kept us indoors (while NY was all hot and bothered), and… Read more >

Breakfast rut of the moment is home-made cashew yogurt with granola and cashew butter.  It’s reallllly good. Salad making. I went big with avo and goat cheese on this one – usually I pick one or the other.  And after a decent amount of massaging the balsamic vinaigrette into the kale, the chevre and avo made the most wonderful coating on the greens. What a beaut! Unfortunately this messed up my gut a bit and I felt a little blah for the rest of the afternoon.  My GI tract has been pretty good lately so… Read more >

I made regular and mini muffins for breakfasting on Saturday but they were all gone by Tuesday.  Actually I have one left that has 2 grams of peanut “hidden” in it, for tonight, but the normal ones are all gone. Q: How many layers does it take to exercise outside in the Winter?  A:  All.  All of the layers. No photos of my breakfast, but I ate home-made granola at MOPS and had way more coffee than I usually do.  It was an awesome meeting and V did especially great in child care so I was… Read more >

Not related to food, but it has to be noted…my two year old is suddenly looking way too grown up. She is mischievous and wild and headstrong and will probably drive me and Kyle mad, but man is she ever something special. I finally uploaded a bunch of pics from the nice camera, and the quality is so much better than those of my iPhone. Enough about the babes.  Kyle got home late late late Friday night so we were all asleep, but come Saturday morning it was a joy to have someone else to help… Read more >