I’m prefacing this with an admission/disclaimer that I’ve totally gnoshed on chocolate chips today. This is a brainstorm post as much as anything, so please feel free to chime in with your tips and tricks! I have never claimed to love meal planning. Cooking through The Vegetarian Mother’s Cookbook forced me to meal plan and stick [...]
Nesting. Sleeping. Crying. Urgency. Anxiousness. Peace. Excitement. Anticipation. Preparation. Busy. Accomplished. Tired. Tired. Awake. Full. Complete. The third trimester of pregnancy is intense and magical all at once. Your baby has grown to fill you up, and just when you think they can’t grow any more, they do. A big stretch reaches from ribs to [...]
I can never pass up a good ice cream opp, so even though the last one was a giant flop, I had to give the Root Beer Float popsicles a try. I think I made up some other thing we needed at the store, and while I was there I snagged a Hagen-Daaz pint of [...]
I tried. I really did. My cousin and her hubs are moving out here – the first time we’ve lived in the same state since we were itty bitty – and they stopped by on their way through. I knew I had another popsicle post to do, and I knew they had to be special. [...]
We are all about strained yogurt lately as a quick, satisfying snack. Chobani is my brand of choice, but at $1+ for 5 oz, it adds up. Even though my cashew yogurt attempt was not the greatest, I’m always up to try something new. When “something new” means “something you forget about overnight,” I’m particularly [...]
Historically, the second trimester for me means early summer. I’m feeling good, the weather isn’t too miserable yet, the belly is rounding out from early pregnancy bloat, and by the middle to end of it people are already asking if I’m due any day. The upside to that is a great big pregnant belly can [...]
Just before the craze of moving and baby learning to walk and everything that has made my life a whirlwind for the past several months, UncommonGoods sent me a bright little ray of sunshine in the mail. These guys have the best products, hands down. If you are wanting to drop some Mother’s Day hints, [...]
As Spring rolls around, I have been reminiscing about those two pink lines I saw two years ago, who now runs around with pink pigtails and dirt on her toes. Blogging here was therapeutic and a good distraction as I navigated nausea and toddlers and generally tried to avoid thinking about how in the world [...]
Winter has been half-hearted this year, with mild temperatures that I won’t come close to complaining about. Instead of playing outside in snow suits and galoshes, we’ve been in jeans and barefeet. But it doesn’t stop us from coming in looking for soup to curl up with. Here are some amazing looking soups that I’m [...]
For those of you who have followed along since the beginning of this blog, through my pregnancy and first year with MoxiLady, you know that meal planning is a challenge for me. I don’t enjoy it, and often the meal plans come late or not at all as I stall to organize my thoughts and [...]
