I'm back at my blog, sorry about the delay and sorry about the weird amazon ad, I'm working on fixing it. Many years ago one of my best friends told me that as a New Englander, you have to seize July, you have to take it and show it who's boss, because the weather turns a little funny in August and you have to squeeze as much summer out of July just in case. I did the cape (bourne, sandwich, mashnee, cataument and pocasset only), maine (damariscotta/pemaquid/bremen baby), the vineyard (up island) and squeezed in a little marblehead, duxbury, and public garden swan boat action. Ate a lot of lobster, got my kids nice and brown and cuddled and fed and improved their swimming in the mix. I wanted to take advantage of this summer because I am doing a full time job search after a few years of consulting part time while I have been home with the kids.
My son still eats nothing and my daughter is still dreamy and sweet and a pretty good eater these days, she is much hungrier after so much swimming. Tonight I was craving spicy asian so I went off the reservation and made coconut green curry cod with broccoli and water chestnuts and jasmine rice for me and the great husbando. He loved it and actually said, "this dinner makes me happy". But just as long as I don't cook gourmet every night...(hi Gina)
This summer I have been doing an elimination diet to try and solve insomnia and other ailments and so far I am off sugar, eggs, dairy, and I eat almost no meat. I've been cooking a lot of fish for dinner and I do feel a lot better, the sugar and dairy have proven to be bad news even in small amounts. Lunch is salad with tuna or leftovers, breakfast is blueberries and kashi with rice milk, hummus and veg for snacks, and watermelon for dessert. I don't tortutre myself with this if I go out for a nice dinner. (a nice piece of...)
In regard to the delay in posting, right after I started the blog I had a rough month, I fell down the stairs and sprained my ankle, had a tooth pulled and lost a dear first cousin all in one week and I didn't have the mojo to be on here in addition to getting my kids through the stressful end of school. My daughter starts first grade and she is getting so grown up, I hope she has a better experience with first grade than she did with kindergarten. She first experienced mean kids which broke my heart, and she first experienced feeling truly famished after school. I had kept her steadily fed 24/7 for 5 1/2 years and when she went to school she basically starved all day because all she could eat were goldfish, juice boxes, raisins, and soy nut butter and jelly sandwiches. This is a kid who ate penne pesto with chicken for lunch at home. Onward.
