Christmas prep and giveaway

I spent most of Friday in Fremont with my little buddy.

Although there’s a little bit of stress leading up to these appointments, I look forward to them too because I get to spend 5+ hours with just Mr. P.  There are plenty of distractions – vital signs, nurse checks, and updoses of course – but it’s nice to hang with him.

I stopped at Starbucks on our way out of town and brought this bar for breakfast.

Share Bar is right!  More like “steal from your mom bar”.

This was so good.  It’s divided in half and Pacman swooped on most of the second portion after I gave him one bite.

 

But then moments like this make me willing to do whatever he wants.

That hand has my whole heart in it.

Let me share a bit more about these bars though.

Their ingredient list is short and sweet: dates, egg whites, coconut, apple juice infused blueberries, Bacillus Coagulant GBI-30 6086 (a probiotic)

No more, no less.

And every time you buy one, you give one to a child in need via Steve’s Club.

Awesome, right?

So I’m going to give some away, ok?  I thought you’d be cool with that.

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Ok, back t the show.

He was so excited to tell me that the song was one he recognized. Music is life – all day every day.

And once his 90 minute wait was up after his last dose we said goodbye until 2018 and set off for WF.  His choice!

He picked a bunch of stuff from the salad bar and was bouncing off the walls with excitement that every person nearby was commenting on his delight.  I didn’t want to get into it with random strangers, but I am always so tempted to be like “BUT HE USED TO BE ALLERGIC TO EVERYTHING AND SALAD BARS WERE MY NIGHTMARE!!!”  Instead I just smiled politely. Seriously guys can you even believe this is our reality?!?  He asked for TWO different kinds of cheese and I just said sure!  And who cares that his bowl of randomness didn’t make any sense!  He picked it all out – including multiple kinds of lettuce – and it made him happy.  And that makes me happy.  And I didn’t even have to bat an eye when worrying about cross contamination (or even true contamination!).  Phew!

This was the biggest salad ever, but I was super hungry.  It had goat cheese, roasted butternut squash, bacon and pecans with balsamic vinaigrette on mixed greens.

My date has the dreamiest blue eyes.

But his table manners are lacking.

After lunch we drove back to my parents’ house and spent the afternoon playing in the backyard.

I grew up on this swing set.

For dinner we made roasted brussels sprouts, rice, and salmon.

Deeeelish.

I was a little hungry later but didn’t want to ruin my dessert free streak (and was also in the mood for savory, not sweet) so I had the last bit of rice and salmon that was leftover.

Once the kids were in bed we put on Love Actually.  I’ve been in the holiday mood for weeks now, but we were celebrating our family Christmas early (on Saturday) so this really kicked the weekend off right.

And speaking of Christmas…gotta prep for the big meal!

Our menus for Thanksgiving and Christmas overlap by a lot – turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, and cranberry sauce are all staples for both days.  Usually we have roasted root veggies on both days too, but this year we didn’t because there were so many other veggie dishes instead.  Anyway, I chopped all the veggies, including parsnip, rutabaga, turnips, and asparagus, that night so there was one fewer thing to do when the kitchen was hectic the next day.  I also roasted butternut squash (above) for a salad (same-ish one I made for Thanksgiving…and Friday’s lunch).

Just wait until I tell you about the coconut creme brûlée that my mom made for we dairy free folks.  INCREDIBLE.