A month and a half almost since I’ve written here. Nothing totally tragic. No severe suffering. All are healthy and happy for the most part. Life is still hard, though ~ isn’t it? I don’t know if I’ve ever felt its heaviness, its burdens, and its challenges like I do right now. Oh, I know… Read More Highlights In Heaviness & Girly, Giggling Grace
I’ve definitely cheated a few times, because crackers and chips are some of the things I miss most in following this high protein, high fruit and veggie diet. Some days, before switching to a no-grains-no-legumes diet, I was subsisting on rice crackers and hummus. Crunchy and savory in the same food item is hard to… Read More Gluten Free/Paleo Friday ~ Crackers!
Hanging out at Common Grounds coffee shop. There’s a recipe at the end of this post, I promise. A good one, too, if you happen to like olives and all-things-Mediterranean. It’s just that I also wanted to post photos from our trip to Texas last weekend, since I haven’t found the time to write all… Read More Gluten Free/Paleo Friday ~ T-Bone Texas & Chicken Sicily (and bats!)
The wonderful thing was that it was a gorgeous day in Massachusetts for apple picking, which is a New England tradition I don’t think we’ve ever missed in our 14 years here ~ warm, sunny, and perfect for seeing the changing colors in the trees. The sad things were that we were dong it without… Read More Gluten Free/Paleo Friday ~ Exporting Apple Butter
It was Saturday night that we were sitting at our kitchen table, chatting, and listening to the Baylor vs. West Virginia game online. The teen s’mores & pizza party was over and cleaned up from the night before, a baby registry for my friend Christie had been accomplished earlier in the day, and I was… Read More The Socially Awkward Homeschool Graduate
Before I tell you about our mushroom outing and observation, and about a meatball soup we tried this week, I just have to share a recent discovery about the connection between Celiac Disease and coffee. I found a message in my Facebook inbox today from a friend who figured I already knew it, but thought… Read More Gluten Free/Paleo Friday ~ Mushroom Spores & Meatball Soup (Coffee Concerns, too.)
This week marks the halfway point in our Classical Conversations Challenge II semester, and I can hardly believe it. This is my second time to tutor this level, and I really enjoy the hands-on nature of the curriculum ~ even though biology and algebra II are a challenge for me. Actually, the entire curriculum is… Read More Pondwater, Polynomials, Philosophic Discussions, and Pizza
This experience and post should definitely be filed under “things you never thought you would do,” because spending three days in NYC for the purpose of going to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week is most certainly a thing I never thought I would do. Actually, I’m not sure I even knew the event existed, so it… Read More Gluten Free Friday ~ Prada and Paleo in NYC
It really started several years ago, this toying with the idea of restricting my diet even MORE than it already is, but this magazine that I bought to read on the plane to Texas last month included the compelling evidence I needed to make me stop toying and start practicing. I’m sort of scared to… Read More Gluten Free Friday ~ One Month of Paleo
It’s mid-September, the leaves are beginning to change, the apple orchards are all open for picking, the farm stands are selling corn AND cornstalks for seasonal decor, and I am not so happy about all of this. It’s too soon! I do love the fall (really nothing like fall in New England), but I love… Read More Completing Her Quest