Posts Tagged "December"
Banana-Nectarine-Coconut Smoothie
Recipe Ingredients
* one young Thai coconut
* one banana (large-ish)
* 1 nectarine, skin on, cut it off the pit
* eyeball some honey (I over did it, but I’d say a few tablespoons at most)
* fill with ice to 6 cup mark on blender pitcher
Recipe Instructions
Use above ingredients in this order:
coconut, banana, nectarine, honey, ice
Blend to smooth. You can add water if it’s too thick, but I found it was just the right consistency.
Read MoreAutism can’t tear twin brothers apart – St. Petersburg Times
Autism can’t tear twin brothers apart – St. Petersburg Times.
I read this and started crying. I don’t know if everyone will/would, but stories like this always make me cry. I always see myself in them. I think all siblings of special needs children are like this (or I’ve never met one who wasn’t). It’s almost the same as a parent/child relationship, but it’s different too. I would have given my arm for my sister to be normal. I would have done anything. I used to tell my gram to rub her legs, so she could walk. I wanted to be a therapist when I grew up. I took care of her, I loved her, and I defended her to strangers all the time. A pierce of me died when she did, and it’s a piece I notice missing all the time. A huge piece of her grew in me, and I know it’s there every day when I interact with my own children.
I feel for this little boy. He has no idea. His entire life is already different from his peers, and it isn’t better and it isn’t worse, but it is most definitely different. He will grow up knowing things that I wish we could instill in every child in the world. He will grow up a little faster, perhaps he already has, and he will grow up a little slower, because that’s just how it is. I wish him and his brother the very best.
Read MoreMy kitchen is a happy kitchen today
I am the proud, happy new owner of a Maxximum blender and an Omega juicer. Michael dug up these bits of love for me on Craigs List – there was a juice bar in Hollywood that was going out of business. I just got almost 750$ in kitchen love for 300$ (yay for work holiday bonuses and [bad Jenn!] digging into the vacay jar)
I did not get the sexy chrome juicer, I have the white one. You can read all about it here if you are interested. It’s a masticating juicer and makes things like yummy banana “ice cream” too.
I can’t find the actual site for the blender, but here is a place selling it so it has a desc. It’s similar to the Vitamix and Blendtec blenders.
I cannot wait for breakfast tomorrow :-) I’ve got a freezer and fridge and counter full of fruits and veggies and goodness.
Read Moreswagbucks.com: Swag Store
You guys should sign up for SwagBucks! Better yet, if you sign up through this link, every time you win, I get bucks too! I think it goes the other way too – yay! I’ve gotten two SB today just by using their google portal instead of going to google directly.
I spend way too much time online
and here is where I do it the most!
- Punky Moms
- LJ
- FB
- Ravelry
- DLT
- RawFu & their forums
- Quirky Mom
- Whole Addiction
I’m sure there is more, but those are more or less it.
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