Packed her a special Valentine’s Day lunch this morning – heart shaped ravioli, field roast slice, cauliflower, carrots, parmesan popcorn and carefully sectioned grapefruit. It’s a bit lighter than usual, but I suspect there will be lots of celebratory food in her classroom this morning. Hope you have a great Valentine’s Day with your friends, … Continue reading »
I turned 38 this past weekend and had a super quiet day with my two most important people to ease the soul and brain. Made this cake. Lounged in bed with a book. Watched some football. Ate at Elizabeth Street for the first time. Lounged in bed some more. Perfection. Continue reading »
Hope that you all had safe and happy new year’s celebrations. Whatever it is that you resolve to do better or do more (or less) of in the coming year I hope that helps you all land in a happy place each and every day of 2013. We’ll just be working on the simple task … Continue reading »
A creamy, vegan roasted squash soup from our Thanksgiving dinner table. Continue reading »
Our celebrating kicks off today with Halloween! We’ll cart the 9yo over to our friend’s house for what has become one of our most treasured fall traditions. Their neighborhood is CRAZY into Halloween with haunted houses, spooky decorations (and sound effects), tables of full-size candy bars, and hundreds of children flooding the street in costume. … Continue reading »
This will go down as the birthday that she baked her own cakes – vegan chocolate cakes to be exact. They were moist and dense without being bricks or too sweet. Hoping that this is the beginning of a new birthday tradition and looking forward to baking many, many more cakes with her. Happy Birthday, … Continue reading »
Our summer break officially began earlier this week, but that rewarding finish line with cheers and sigh of relief that you expect deserve after running a mad dash for nearly a month? Not even the 8yo was feeling it. The lazy pajama morning that I had been looking forward to was nice and all, but maybe … Continue reading »
It’s Valentine’s Day and although I am not super into the wining and dining version of the holiday that adults embrace, I am a HUGE fan of the grade-school version that brings together our love of crafts and food. Her classmates got a new variation on last year’s Mad Libs Valentines. The little rolls from … Continue reading »
Usually opting out of the Thanksgiving hoopla, we went for a change of pace this year for the sake of our holiday-starved daughter. Still understated, but celebrating nonetheless. Continue reading »
We have decided to make the celebrating a bit more official this time around for the sake of the holiday-starved eight year old. Continue reading »
