I’ve been working really hard lately to make good exercise and eating choices, and it has not been easy. The medication I’m on will give me days where I want to eat anything that crosses my eye-line, so I had to come up with a snack that was at least a little bit healthy and […]
[Continue reading...]Neverending Mama Guilt
February 17, 2010
After naming my child Atticus you’d probably assume that I take him to the library every day, that we lounge around bookstores in our free time, that he’s already worked his way through the entire Seuss oeuvre. Not so much. Oh it’s a sad fact of life that there are only so many hours in […]
[Continue reading...]2010 Year of Pleasures #7
February 16, 2010
This lemon is from my very own backyard lemon tree. The tree is so puny I can’t believe it’s even producing, but here’s the proof. I thought it was exciting the first time I used homegrown herbs, but this was even better! I stuffed this inside a chicken with some of those homegrown herbs, rubbed […]
[Continue reading...]Cupcakes and Cleavage
February 15, 2010
Me and Laura from SurfsUpButtercup. picture by Sugar Jones Friday night I went to another San Diego Girls Night Out event with a bunch of the bloggers I went trapezing with. I am having so much fun with these women. The internet has given me so much, one of these days I’m going to stop […]
[Continue reading...]Atti goes to the zoo
February 12, 2010
My friend Cynthia and I finally managed to align our schedules this week, so she took us to the Wild Animal Park. I was really going for a nice day out with a friend, I really didn’t think Atti would care too much about what was going on. He’s still pretty internal and really doesn’t […]
[Continue reading...]Spinach Artichoke Puffs
February 10, 2010
We spent Thanksgiving with the big extended family, and with so many of us getting together, we all get assignments for food responsibilities. One of my jobs this year was to bring an appetizer, so I wanted to make something that people could grab and keep going as they were running between keeping up with […]
[Continue reading...]2010 Year of Pleasures #6
February 9, 2010
I had my first meeting with the rest of the women I’ll be working with at church, and so Bear made us homemade angel food cake with fresh whipped cream and homemade strawberry sauce. We all licked our plates clean. Oh my gosh, homemade angel food cake is so much better than the stuff in […]
[Continue reading...]They say it’s your birthday….
February 8, 2010
I had so much on my plate lately, I could not wrap my brain around planning a party or making a cake. So I just bought a few presents and Bear did every other thing. Including this cake. He was adorable, preparing the cutting template weeks ago, making a practice version, going to the cake […]
[Continue reading...]2 years old
February 4, 2010
Today is Atti’s second birthday, and I’m rendered nearly speechless. I can’t count the number of times someone told me, “Treasure this time! It goes so fast!” but boy howdy, they were not kidding. How do I have a two year old? In some ways I don’t. He’s caught up on the growth chart, but […]
[Continue reading...]Mason Dixon Handtowels
February 4, 2010
More time ago than I’d like to admit, I started knitting the handtowels from the Mason Dixon ladies’ first book. This is one of those projects that I don’t have to hide away in my studio to work on, or worry about keeping things clean, so I have it tucked in a basket I keep […]
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