Baking some amazingly tasty and healthy breads (thank you Oma, Aunt Karen & Alicia), which usually incorporate my new handy dandy holy trinity baking ingredients of: flax seed, millet & whole wheat flour. This is still a W.I.P., but if I ever get a recipe down to perfection, I'll blog it.
Dan teaching music lessons 3 days a week, still forging ahead with church choir, getting prepared for upcoming school year, working Tasty Tuesdays at Bittersweet. Still, never complains.
Making various flavors of homemade ice cream (last night was coconut ice cream - there really are no words for this tasty little treat....). If you're going to do this, toast your coconut first in the oven and then put in the food processor before adding to the other ingredients. Trust me on this.
Dan meeting summertime quota of computer game play time (heck yes for Star Wars!) and challenging anyone & EVERYone to a game of chess. If you're interested, please call the guy and give him his fix.
Reading. Reading for fun, for the kids, for work, for recipes, for a healthier lifestyle, for occasional celebrity gossip...
Lots of coupon clipping, advanced meal planning, bargain grocery shopping. I love when my diligent coupon clippings allow me to purchase organic chicken for $.99/lb. Also, the new norm for our family is to enjoy family grocery shopping trips. People stare at us and sometimes even comment on how nice it is to see an entire family of 4 at a store together. I concur.
Blogging, reading blogs, realizing that all of this blog writing I've been doing has become a lovely little journey of self discovery. I quite love it.
Deeply enjoying a new-found but very real love for sauvignon blanc. It's the only kind of wine that the husband & I agree on these days. So we make it a point to purchase in bulk.
Getting excited and maternally anxious for the birth of Edith's baby (it's totally a girl)
Watching the kids learn to play together (!)
Loving my husband and learning to bite my tongue
(finally getting around to) Decorating Ben's room
Flirting with & researching the idea of a new career path in my sometime-future
Adoring So You Think You Can Dance with child-like giddiness. Not just Nicole. Dan AND Nicole.
Deeply appreciating our amazing families.
Making & enjoying lots of lattes with our sweet Alice and loving how much money we're saving with her.
The Kids:
Ella is still desperately trying to crawl, spends lots of time in the "downward dog" yoga position, scoots on her tummy and can reach anything within a 6 ft. radius
Ben has graduated to a "big boy bed" which means no more toddler bed, and in its place is a fantastic twin bed with very darling bedding
Ella learned to wave on her own and does it all day long
Ben likes to be 100% boy 100% of his day. Usually this entails lots of monster/superhero/lion impersonations and playing with sticks & dirt in the backyard
Ella has suddenly developed opinions on just about everything. You don't even want to know what she thinks about the state of our economy.
Ben sits with me almost every time I go to nurse the baby and we watch "cooking shows" together. He begs for it. LOVES the Food Network, and asks for Giada or Barefoot Contessa by name (of course, he has a bit of a crush on Giada. Go figure.)
Ben & Ella are both plagued with their mommy's eczema skin and we've spent a good portion of our summer (and our pocket book) trying to get it under control. Nothing seems to really help, so we keep trying using a combination of natural remedies with doctor prescribed remedies. We'll see...mostly Mama just feels really guilty for passing on such an awful gene. Sorry about that, kids.
They are REALLY learning to love each other and play together (what we've been waiting for!)- Ben without bulldozing Ella over every 2 seconds, and Ella getting tougher (i.e. less tears) and more wise to her brother's silly ways.
The End.
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