Happy birthday, beautiful girl!

Corinne is two today! Unfreakinbelievable.
Sweet Corinne, we love how easily you brighten a room with your amazing personality. We’re amazed by how well you can express yourself and by all the things you can do. We’re grateful to be your parents and to help you to grow into the strong, loving, joyful person you are [...]

Enough about The Vegan Collection!

Okay, enough about The Vegan Collection! They’re jerks, and we need to move on.
The big news is Corinne is almost two  years old. Yea, I know, already? It’s true, she turns 2 on Monday. Needless to say we’re throwing a birthday bash for her this weekend. The guest list is fairly exclusive, and [...]

Jamie Oliver Inspiring Change in America

This video helped me appreciate something I took for granted when I was younger. We shopped for our own food and cooked it. I was encouraged to try new foods and I learned how to prepare them. Not all of it is food I’d eat today, but thankfully it didn’t come in a bucket or [...]

One busy three day weekend

Wow, what a weekend!
On Saturday we went to a birthday party for one of Corinne’s friends. The weather was beautiful, so the party was held out doors. Corinne enjoyed running around and playing, talking on a toy phone and pushing a child sized shopping cart around. It was a lot of fun, and she was [...]

Souper Saturday, Soup Bowl Sunday, and a friendly reminder that ice cream trucks don’t hibernate

I had the most amazing birthday weekend. Saturday was spend doing a few things I enjoy the most…spending time with my family, wandering around the local farmer’s market, and cooking. I made a huge pot of red lentil soup with lime and a vibrant green salad that had everything from almonds and blood oranges to [...]

A Cancelled Weekend

Well, sometimes things work exactly as planned, and sometimes all your plans get canceled. This past weekend was one of the latter. We were called upon to do some babysitting on Sunday, so I canceled my Saturday CthulhuTech game to give us more time to get ready. But then at the last minute the babysitting [...]