Food

Food....I love it!

Really, I do love it - everything about it - making menus, grocery lists, grocery shopping, food porn, food blogs, baking, cooking, mixing, all of it!

Oh yeah, especially eating it! Yes, I love to eat! And I'm really not that picky either. Sure, I love to have a fabulous dinner, or a real nice breakfast, or a superb sandwich for lunch, but sometimes I can just go basic. Take this for example...for the last two nights, and I'm sure a few nights last week, I have poured myself a bowl....okay, large bowl of corn flakes with soy milk. The Kirkland Organic plain soy milk...love it! I really have never eaten corn flakes much in my life, but recently I just have had this craving for them. Corn flakes with honey and milk was my Dad's breakfast of choice while I was growing up, so maybe it's a bit nostalgic for me. Who knows...

Anyhow...I am on this huge baking craze right now. Made cinnamon rolls and banana bread lately, with plans to make donut muffins, more banana bread, pretzels, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bread, granola bars. Do we see a trend here....carb city! Yikes! I knew there was a reason that I have started going back to the gym.

Oh, and then we do have some healthy stuff going on. We're eating lots of veggies from the garden right now...edamame, green beans, tomatoes, basil, beets and carrots. It's probably worth noting that I do try to have a salad every night for dinner...speaking of which, I am so missing my Feta Cheese from Costco right now...my favorite salad topper! I sense a Costco run in the near future!

Okay, enough rambling about food. It is honestly what I think about most of the day...odd, wouldn't you say?

Our Summer

So my plan was to keep updating what we did this summer.....FAIL!!!!!

Well, we did A LOT!

Camping for 2 nights with friends, Whistler for 6 nights - just us, Long Beach for 4 nights with Josh's family, Great Wolf Lodge, blueberry picking, blackberry picking, raspberry picking, strawberry picking...what he heck...let just do'em all!, Laine had swimming lessons, played with neighborhood friends, went bowling, worked on my Mom's yard, planted and harvested a garden, went to the Fair....got sick at the Fair, JJ learned to ride his bike with no trainers, spent the Labor Day weekend with friends in Yakima - sadly no sunshine to bid farewell to the summer... and even though we were super busy, there were things that we didn't get to that I would have liked to...at least there's next year!

And, to top it all off, it was the most beautiful, warm summer and I know the kids had a fabulous time...I know I sure did!

Now, Laine has started her second week of 1st grade with the teacher she so badly wanted - Mrs. Petersen, who, curiously enough was a high school classmate of Josh's in Vancouver.
JJ starts his second year of preschool on Thursday - he'll be gone 4 afternoon's a week. What will I do with my time? Oh, I'm sure I'll find plenty to do...or maybe I'll treat myself so some "me" time.

We have a quiet month and then some activities start for the kids. Both will be doing gymnastics and JJ will do basketball. I'm sure more things will pop up unexpectedly, but for now, I'll just enjoy the slow pace of September.