If I had to summarize what I have been eating over the past few weeks (while I wasn’t blogging), the theme would be recipes from this cookbook. I am obsessed and have more or less been eating one thing or another from the book every single day. The most frequent have been superhero muffins, the DIY grain salad, and the Thai quinoa slaw…although the fennel and apple salad is hot on their heels. I feel like I am making the apple cider vinaigrette and lemon miso dressing constantly. The Thai quinoa slaw has accompanied me… Read more >

Hi! Remember me? I have a post titled “anxiety and being nice to myself” in my drafts right now, but the post is empty. So that’s a pretty good indication of how this past month has been going. But really, it’s going great. And sadly, that’s because this blog has taken a backseat to all the other awesome things going on…like teaching for fit4mom, and kiddo graduations, and becoming an auntie again, and, well, SO MANY things I couldn’t list them all. Needless to say, my attention has been scattered. But I’m here for now,… Read more >

It’s starting to feel like summahhhhhh! I don’t want to jinx it by writing it out, because we’ve had several rainy days recently, but we also finally broke into the triple digit temps, so I feel pretty pretty prettyyyyyy good that the weather is here to stay. Going to the splash park also makes it semi official, right? Even though both kids love school, we are all very seriously anticipating some unstructured time and all the playing and freedom that comes with it (myself included!). Remind me that I said this in a month. 😛… Read more >

After so much sickness and solo parenting, the four of us joined my parents and sister’s fam for a much needed vacation. We missed my youngest sissie mucho, but she is days/weeks away from having a baby so it was a little too risky for her to come. We hit a lot of traffic on the way down, which added an hour or two to our car time, but the kids didn’t care one bit because now that we have the DVD player we could drive to Maine and they’d be unaffected so long as… Read more >