What happened to summer? How are the kids back to school and the trees turning already? HOW? Oh right … it went buy in a fabulous blur of swim lessons, weekend trips, sweltering days (still here, unfortunately) and frozen yogurt. It was nice! But it was busy. Now I am looking directly at an entire [...]
Daddy got to pick out breakfasts this week and (surprise, surprise) he chose breakfast burritos. Technically, I’ve already posted a recipe for breakfast burritos, but we’ve changed things up a bit since we first started making these bad boys, so here’s what we do now. Breakfast Burritos 18 flour tortillas (we buy Market Pantry low-carb) [...]
This past week really tested my cooking mettle. Last week, I ran the dishwasher every single night, even the night we didn’t cook; even yesterday when we’d been gone most of the weekend. Seems we’ve been getting off easy with the kids in daycare. Without having to provide them with 2 of the 3 meals [...]
Matt and I have a fabulous history of doing very little for our anniversaries. Gifts according to the fun materials schedule? Nope. Dinners out? Err … maybe once? But this was #10 so we were determined to do something! We had to reschedule … twice … but we did finally make it on our weekend. [...]
Goody gosh it’s been a crazy week. And it’s not quite over yet. After two successful playdates and a very successful first two days, Ben had some setbacks today. He apparently cried for a good part of the day. Seems like the problems started when Matt dropped him off. He wanted to go back to [...]
This morning after a quick breakfast and the ceremonial “finding of the shoes,” we set off to drop Miss Tabby off for her first day of kindergarten. It was a nice feeling with lots of folks walking along the same sidewalks and paths towards our neighborhood elementary school and when we saw the pileup of [...]
This morning, with nary a glance backward, my baby headed off to preschool. He stashed his nap mat in his cubby, hung his backpack up haphazardly and went to sit on the rug with a bunch of other little boys who were assembling a giant puzzle. He asked to join and was soon working with [...]
When we signed up for the Firefly 5K a few months ago, I sort of forgot it was our anniversary. Not only that, our 10th anniversary. But it seemed like a fun thing to do with some friends and when the neurons finally fired and we connected the two, we weren’t upset. It sounded like [...]
So yesterday I got to go on a couple of jobsite visits. We visited two sites on CSU’s campus where we’re busily renovating a library and an arena. It’s cool stuff. The arena is very much a work in progress still, but the library is almost done and it is really neat. It has [...]
For the past two days I have been absolutely dogging it at the gym. I was OK with strength work, but anything cardio (i.e. running) is killing me. I used my inhaler a couple times each session, very odd for me, as the asthma thing has almost always before hit me very sporadically with long [...]
My name is Jess. I'm a 30ish wife and working mommy. I love spending time with my family and friends, crafting up weird and beautiful things, cooking delicious food and running lots of miles to work it off. I love chocolate, wine, Photoshop, my Nikon and sleeping in. I do freelance design work for fun and marginal profit at JKN Designs. This is my blog. Read more »
