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I’ve been MIA!  Things have been chaos ever since the fire in Paradise began.  Kyle was actually en route to Chico on the day it started and turned around because his friends (who he was visiting) were all being forced to evacuate.  Eek.  Guys, it’s so bad.  These fires are taking over our state and it’s heart breaking.  The smoke made it’s way to us in Davis lickety split thanks to the insane winds last week (and pretty much the rest of the entire Bay Area) so we haven’t left the house much and the… Read more >

I finally got around to making a jar of freezer jam with these pineapple guava fruits. They are such a confusing taste for my tongue to process.  It’s kiiiiinda like the texture of apple, but with a kiwi-ish tartness and acidic sweetness.  That sounds so weird right?  It’s hard to describe!  Definitely a tropical thing that I’m not used to.  I made a big pot and whatever didn’t fit into the jar, I used in oatmeal for breakfast.  Which tasted similar to when I make oatmeal with applesauce.  I didn’t use any additional sweetener in… Read more >

How did everyone’s Halloween go down?  We went trick or treating with BOTH kids this year! I took Pacman last year solo, but Valley got to join in this year and she was ALL FOR IT.  It was so sweet.  We only went to 10ish houses but they thought it was awesome. We’d already gone downtown earlier in the day for Davis’ trick or treat trail where you hit up a bunch of local vendors for candy…but they didn’t really care about it too much and the crowds were kinda crazy so we kept it quick. … Read more >