Recipe Post Updated

My desire to please won out over my overwhelming laziness and I updated my menu post with recipes.  If there’s something that I still haven’t linked to, it’s because I just cook it without a recipe -For example “Chard” is just Rinse chard, chop up, throw in a pot with garlic sauteed in olive oil, [...]

Going Green

When we first started this gluten free thing, we ate A LOT of beans and cheese and meat.
We still eat a lot of meat because that’s what keeps Mr. E full, but as we sail towards the New Year and a slew of resolutions, I really need to get back in the practice of eating [...]

Happy Birthday To My Favorite Supposed Human

Because we’re losers and have no money and have to make our own fun, we always joke around that Mr. E is a robot.
But seriously, sometimes I wonder.
The man is just too nice to be real.
He likes talking to old people. He calls his mother four times a week.  He is the best dad I’ve [...]

Dear Chicago

Please please please please please please please let this not be the year that I spend Christmas in the Denver Airport. Please.
Please.
However, just so you know. If you DO strand me in the Denver Airport on Christmas Day, my dear Chicago, I fully intend to make the best of it.  After all, there is a [...]

How I Spend My Day

6:00 AM – Am awoken by beeping of husbands alarm.
6:09 AM – Am awoken by beeping of husbands alarm.
6:18 AM – Am awoken by beeping of husbands alarm.
6:19 AM – Am awoken by the melodious tones of my child screaming two hours before he should be awake.
6:20 AM – Stagger out of bed, collect child [...]

This Just Freaks Me Out

Eli, 21 months

Me, 2 years old (sorry for the pic of a pic, I am not down with the scanning technologies.)

Christmas At Our House

How My Day Is Going So Far

And no, he’s not allowed to sit on the table.
He’s also not allowed to chuck oranges on the floor, now that you mention it.

Correction

I’m editing my last post because in thinking about it, it’s actually pretty racist for me to assume that someone does or does not speak English as a second language based on how they look or how they speak, or that they would know the european or american pronunciation of Eli as the “correct” one.   [...]

I’m Offering Today Up

I just ate five pieces of salami rolled up around canned black olives and cream cheese, and I’m not ashamed. Nor am I am pregnant.  In other news,  it was delicious, and I may have more.
This single parenthood thing is turning out to be a real pain in the ass.  Today was one of those [...]