Nugget got a delivery from Sugar Plum so I got another loaf of Nourish bread! This bread is vegan heaven. It’s just soooo good and so nutrient dense.
I had a couple of slices with cashew butter.
And then we were off to school. Stomping and splashing in puddles the whole way…
Except that she fell shortly after this and landed IN A PUDDLE and then was heartbroken about being super wet and dirty and not getting to wear her skirt. She got over it once she remembered we were making apple pie.
She shocked me and everyone else when she didn’t eat a single piece of apple on it’s way into the crust.
And waited oh so patiently for it to bake. It smelled pretty awesome but she didn’t share any with me, so I can’t vouch for the taste 😉
I made a mocha with marshmallows for myself while they ate lunch and then both decided to nap so I got to eat a very peaceful lunch a bit later.
We had soccer that afternoon, this time for P, after which we got right on the freeway to head down to the Bay Area. I had packed us all up – dinner and overnight stuff included – for the night at my parents’ house and OIT in Fremont and we sang Christmas songs the entire drive there.
I got myself dinner from the Nugget prepared foods section as a treat but packed up food for the kids from our casa.
Nothing gourmet, but it got the job done. That winter kale salad was awesome by the way, and I will probably try to recreate it soon. In addition to walnuts, pomegranate arils, and cabbage, it had roasted butternut squash and roasted cauliflower…plus carrots and greens and some kind of vinaigrette. It was super!
SO. I have decided that I won’t be having dessert until Thanksgiving. Day one was no problem. I didn’t want anything anyway. The evening was great – my dad gave the kids baths and then P and grandma read books forever. But the best part of all was that Kyle got back from his trip. Woo hoo. We watched football and vegged out before the time zone change called him (therefore us) to bed. TGIT 🙂
Spotted on the way to Fremont. Oh Starbucks. That said, I will probably be doing a gingerbread house with the kids in T minus one week (or less?). Is that too soon? I mean, P has no school all next week so I am going to be looking for activities… And we already popped the pandora Christmas station cherry (they were requesting Away in a Manger, so that was the best I could do). So I guess we may as well embrace it and go full steam ahead with decking the halls and fa la la la la-ing until the end of December.
