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Beachouse with kids, Grandma and Aunt Dawn

At Megan and Jay's wedding with sleepy baby girl and sunburned Dave

chopped it off!

It's hot! 95 again today, so I decided to chop off my hair again. Just as I have recently been able to get it in a ponytail, I unregrettably cut it all off and love how much cooler I feel already.

Vegetarian Thanksgiving Dinner

Local, vegetarian and delish!!!!!!!!!

David and I hosted thanksgiving again this year but with a different twist. We challenged ourselves to make it all vegetarian and as local as possible. So when choosing our side dishes, we used what is in season and what we could get at the farmer's market. Mom made the stuffing, which could not abide by the local rule and of course, cranberry sauce from the can was not local. But we made red skinned garlic mashed potatoes with kale flecks. Also, we had roasted butternut squash with garlic and pine nuts. The main dish (if you want to call it the main dish), that replaced the turkey was soy protein patties that resembled chicken I guess. But David made this awesome gravy that was the essence of thanksgiving flavor. It was a success and we had no complaints from even the most stubbon meat eaters among us.

So many next time we'll stick with all local to step it up.

I don't have dessert pictured, but we had pumpkin pie and apple/cranberry pie, ordered from Tidal Creek Coop- they use all local products whenever possible and holy yum they were too.

Thanksgiving diner complete with nursing baby. She never wants to be left out of mealtime.

Good and Bad

Good: popcorn and chocolate after dinner snack- that's popcorn and a bite of chocolate to quickly follow. Repeat. Rearranging successfully! Growing into super stinking cute clothes that are so so snuggly! (Fiona, not me) New season of Fringe. *Was ok with it.

Bad: New season of Grey's Anatomy. Max under my feet constantly! Getting needier every day. But I am not walking him twice a day like he's used to. Bad bad Mom. Growing out of clothes already. (Fiona, not me). Got a bad grade but... go above to *