Natural conditioners

Oliver has a knack for finding natural conditioners in foods…

Oatmeal, in his vegan cheeze sauce, to keep away any potential dry, flaky skin!

Avocado in his guacamole for extra moisturizing and shine!

Excuse the color and the blur.  Some little [...]

Wrapping up May

I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.  We certainly did!  Yum!

PS. If you are wondering where all the crust to my pie went.  Please ask my husband and/or 3 year old.

Blackberry Pickin’ 2010

This year we checked out Blackberries of Houston.  These bushes weren’t super tall, but still tall enough that I didn’t have to bend over much if I didn’t want to.  There bushes, however, were thornless!  It was great to not have to strategically plan my every pick. We will definitely be [...]

Helpful

Ok, so I kinda slacked on the last half of April.  Woops.  I had a birthday, so there’s that.  We still got outside as much as we could for the great outdoor challenge.  Admittedly, I’m sure I missed a couple of days in there somewhere. I joined a gym and the boys are [...]

Ollie's first smoothie

The first one he’s been interested in actually trying anyhow.  Banana, strawberries, peaches, acai, spinach, and a splash of rice milk.

Despite that sour face, he had already had several tastes of it and liked it enough for me to pour some into a cup of his own.  He drank more afterwards, too.  Silly guy. [...]

Fun - inside and out

Despite my feeling not so great today, we managed to get quite a bit of things accomplished.  We started off the morning with a trip to the nursery to pick up a few plants.  They didn’t have what I had set out to get, but we came home with a few lovelies and [...]

Tea time

We’ve started a new ritual in our home: afternoon tea.  Once the boys wake from their naps, we all sit down for some tea and fresh bread that we made together on baking day.  Saturday is our baking day and we make plenty of bread to get us through the week and beyond, freezing most [...]

Aidan turns Three

I can’t believe my baby boy is already three years old!  Yes, I know.  Everyone says that about their kids every single year, but it’s true.  He has grown up before my very eyes, yet it seems like it’s only been a blink of time.  I remember wondering what his little voice would sound like.  [...]

A very late Thanksgiving post

This is almost what a vegan thanksgiving day table looks like:

My hubby took this photo.  Can you tell he was hungry?  The focus is on the food and not that gosh darn adorable baby in the background!

We had pan seared seitan with mushroom gravy, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, cornbread dressing,  apple pie, and [...]

Baking goodness

I’ve been on a soup and baking kick as of late.  My stints like this are fairly tame compared to other moms, I’m sure, but I don’t really like to cook very much.  Baking, though, I could bake for days.  So this past week, I have been working hard at having warm meals for dinner [...]