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As always – trying to include more green things in my daily eats.  Here are some of my recent meals and snacks. Veggie eggs, cranberry relish, toast. Banana with sunflower butter and chocolate chips (which were promptly all picked out by Henry – hmph). Mushrooms Over Everything Eggs with spinach, grilled mushrooms, more leftover cranberry [...]

I WENT ON A RUN. I haven’t run a single step or lifted anything heavier than Henry since last Sunday.  No action.  Nada.  I’m finally 100% better, which means that TODAY IS THE BEGINNING of a better week.  Healthy food, productive time on the computer, and EXERCISE.  I set out to do 4.0 miles but [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!   Because of the stomach flu, we had to push back our celebration a day.  Side note:  getting the stomach flu is always terrible, but to get it on Thanksgiving feels like a cruel, cruel joke.  I couldn’t even eat pie!  But we still had a nice time. My family really pitched in and [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope your day is filled with peace and happiness.   I’m sure no one saw this coming (hah!), but… I caught Henry’s stomach flu.  And then Kristien started to feel under the weather, too.  A whole house full of sick.  There was nothing left to do but reschedule our holiday meal.  Our [...]

A few weeks ago, I was chatting with some of my blogger friends (Kath, Tina, Emily, Meghann, Theodora, Monica, Gina, Julie, Anne, and Janae), and the group struck upon a great idea.  How about we design a beautiful shirt and donate all the profits to a fabulous organization that supports women?   If you’ve been reading [...]

Lunch.   Oh man. It’s one of those Monday. Henry has a stomach virus. I feel so bad for the little man. It is terrible to watch a toddler puke.  He has no idea what is happening (although he calls it “poopy,” which makes us both kind of smile in the worst moments).  Our doctor [...]

I feel like we’ve done nothing but run around all weekend.  Both literally and figuratively!  We’ve had a lot of fun family activities, and in between, I did 4.0 miles on Saturday and 5.0 this morning.  That’s the furthest that I’ve ran over the course of two days since my Half Ironman.  I ran on [...]

It’s Wednesday, but I’m all caught up on my projects, I have zero deadlines, and have no paperwork or invoicing to catch up on, and thus I am “off.”  Hell, I’ve even gotten a jump on my 2013 taxes.  So, I decided to garden.  Our pretty DIY blue clay pots (here’s the tutorial) were looking [...]

Good morning! Happy Monday! How was your weekend?  Mine was great, if busy.  I spent Saturday in Miami, speaking at a Women’s Leadership Symposium at the University of Miami.  After, I met back up with my friends Lisette and Danny, and we had an excellent meal at one of my old favorite restaurants, and then [...]

I grew up in paradise – and I didn’t appreciate it one bit until I left.  So I sure do love to come back! Hi, Miami!   I’m in town for a series of Operation Beautiful events at FIU and University of Miami.  I flew out of Charlotte early yesterday morning (up at 4 AM, [...]

I am so incredibly happy that it’s clementine season.  I love those giant five-pound bags they sell at the store! Henry has also developed an obsession with clementines. To get him off bottles, I started bringing him up a snack in the morning (because I used to bring him a bottle). It’s usually a slice [...]

It is with a heavy heart that I say that Pippa passed away this morning. Everything seemed fine. She wasn’t sick or lethargic. When I woke up, she greeted me outside my bedroom door as normal. She said hello to the dogs and ran upstairs with us to get Henry out of his crib.  She [...]

Good morning. A short poem about my weekend:   Another weekend is gone. I watched eight episodes of Breaking Bad. I tried to go running, but my knee hurt. It made me really sad.   Yup.  Still having problems with my knees after the race.  My knees started to ache (that old, unfortunately familiar Runner’s [...]