I photograph my meals on pretty placements, but please – do not let that fool you. Most of my meals are, in fact, eaten in the baby cage. And when I say baby cage, I am referring to the more politically-correct playpen. But we do call it the baby cage. (My friend Sara and I [...]
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So much good food. In lieu of maple syrup, I’ve been using brown rice syrup, and it’s so much better! You get that moist, yummy texture, but without the sting-my-teeth sweetness. Chips while working… And a few pieces of chocolate. And for lunch: leftover squash and a brown rice, egg, arugula, onion, tomato, and soy [...]
Top 3 best days of my life: My wedding Henry’s Birthday Yesterday Yes, a random Sunday in December makes the list. In the wake of Friday’s school shooting, we, like so many Americans, took ‘off’ yesterday to focus on family. I am not sure that I have ever been so painfully aware of the [...]
After hosting Thanksgiving, I was feeling {relatively} good about my ability to throw a larger dinner party. Bring on the holiday cheer! Of course, every good dinner party needs a theme. Ugly Christmas sweaters, anyone? We actually ended up on MSN for these sweaters – nothing related to the blog, I guess MSN just throught [...]
Remember how I wrote that I’m struggling to stick to my training plan for more than two weeks in a row? That the third week is always the crap week? Now I’m wondering if this is a self-fulfilling prophecy because I totally blew it this week. Well, perhaps not totally, but I definitely didn’t make [...]
I always feel like such an butt when I write any post on a day like today, when I know there are families suffering so deeply after the Sandy Hook school shooting. Nothing I could write about the situation could really do it justice, so I’ll just say that the loss of life is horrific, [...]
A few days ago, I was asked to give you all an updated blog roll – you know, a list of the blogs that I love to read. I read SO many blogs that it’s hard to give a comprehensive list – which is why I don’t keep a traditional blog roll – but I [...]
Good afternoon. How goes it? Thursdays are always one of my best days of the week because I meet up with my mom’s group – it’s nice to see my friends. Our meet-up today was at Whole Foods. That meant I got to hit up the hot bar (for the second day in a row… [...]
I totally woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Well, I was on my side of the bed, but you know what I mean. Hello, Mrs. Grumpygrumperstein. I thought a run would lift my spirits. Well… technically speaking, it was supposed to be a run, but once I got out there, I [...]
One of today’s meals: It was a delicious meal! I used to be a pretty dedicated daily food blogger. I blogged nearly every bit of food that passed my lips for a few years – it sounds annoying and tedious, but it was actually pretty fun. And it’s such a neat way to see [...]
These days, my mornings are pretty repetitive. Baby alarm goes off anytime between 6:20 and 7:00 AM. I stumble upstairs and change Henry; we play in his room for a while. Then, we stumble downstairs (carefully), I make coffee and food, and he has lots of play time. Even my breakfasts are repetitive. I [...]
Exxxxcuse me while I dust my shoulders off. I have had two really awesome weeks of training (I only put three weeks on my fridge at a time so I don’t psych myself out – it seems to work). I’ve done all my ‘minimum’ workouts and even squeezed in two bonus swims. However, my current [...]
Making a list and checking it twice? Here are a few of my favorite things (plus some wonderful discount codes) for the holidays! Operation Beautiful: One Note at a Time Shameless plug. Please consider giving a young girl (8 – 14 years old) my new Operation Beautiful book, One Note at a Time. You [...]
I asked a very serious question on Twitter this morning. And I got some amazing responses. My favorite thing was how many people simply replied, “Yes.†Craziest response? Stacey – she ran TWENTY MILES on a treadmill once. I thought to myself, “If Stacey can do 20, I can totally do 7.†Why was [...]