11 years ago today, Mr. FG and I became the parents of a little baby boy…and when I looked at this picture, I was struck by how not little he is these days. My boy is growing up.
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When I took a picture of the Cilantro Chicken Salad before, it was dark and I didn’t have a lot of the salad left. So, the picture was not really as appetizing as I’d have liked.
I made it again, though (except I didn’t add avocado this time because mine were slimy!) and I think it looks a little more appetizing in this picture.
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It’s Zoe’s daily request…she loves her United States puzzle! We’ve had it since Joshua was little, but Zoe’s used it more than the other 3 kids combined.
I’d keep it down at her level, but when I do, pieces mysteriously go missing (Maine is at our old townhouse, I think!). So every day when she’s done with it, it goes back up into the closet, only to come down again the next day.
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Lisey’s looking at a great horned owl here and a Peep is along for the ride (a little yellow bunny this time). Lisey and her Peeps are never far apart. 
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I usually pick the most beautiful-looking loaves/rolls to photograph just because I want my recipes to look appealing. But it’s not like I never have ugly bread.
I was making garlic breadsticks for dinner, and several got stuck to the tea towel and got all twisted around and stretched when I removed the towel for baking. But, only a few breadsticks got stretched out, and even the ugly ones still tasted good (and that’s usually the case with homemade bread. Ugliness has no effect on the taste!).
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Yup, our van has now crossed the 100,000 mile mark.
It’s a Toyota, though, so we’re thinking it’s probably only reached the halfway point (if that!). Which is good, because my new van savings fund has a long way to go.
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…it might not be a wise wardrobe choice. Unless leggings are going to be worn with it.
(I didn’t buy this. I just took a picture!)
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Last year, Zoe wore these as cropped pants, and I loved them. Sadly, this year the pants won’t button around her tummy (they’re cut pretty slim and Zoe isn’t super slim!).
Sonia is so teeny, though, the pants button on her with nary a problem, and she’s wearing them as capris. And this is not the only item Zoe has handed up to Sonia either…several items have made their way from Zoe’s drawer to Sonia’s.
It’s amazing how two girls from the same set of parents, living in the same house, eating the same foods can be built so differently. I love it, though…Sonia’s teeny-ness is just so her, and it just wouldn’t seem right if Zoe wasn’t round. 
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I’m not going anywhere…this dress just is. I wore it when I was the matron of honor at my sister’s wedding (which, oddly enough, is the only wedding I’ve ever been in besides my own!).
That wedding happened to be at a point in my life where I was, um, a little smaller than I am now (my unusually small size can be blamed on food poisoning and following on the heels of that, a painful tonsillectomy which left me unable to eat properly for several weeks). I found the dress while I was cleaning out a closet last week, tried it on, and discovered that I couldn’t zip it up past my ribs (Lisey offered to help me, but I explained that any zipping efforts would probably be fruitless!)
Oh well. It’s not like I attend a lot of functions where a full-length dress is required. And thanks to the magic of freecycle, this dress is now in the hands of someone headed to a destination wedding.
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