Look what released yesterday!
The Rhythm of Family: Discovering a Sense of Wonder through the Seasons by Amanda Blake Soule and her husband Stephen Soule of SouleMama.
Playful Learning: Develop Your Child’s Sense of Joy and Wonder by Mariah Bruehl of Playful Learning.
I love when my favorite bloggers write books.
We’re going to be blogging lightly for the month of August, posting frequent photo postcards with a snippet of text. View the entire summer postcard series here.
A delicious and simple meal of miso soup, rice noodles, and tofu.
We’re going to be blogging lightly for the month of August, posting frequent photo postcards with a snippet of text. View the entire summer postcard series here.
Serving up a tasty snack of cuisinaire rods. Who says they can only be used for math lessons?
We’re going to be blogging lightly for the month of August, posting frequent photo postcards with a snippet of text.
Father-daughter kitchen adventures: making chai from scratch.
Are you tired yet of these posts from the couch, with photos from my camera phone? I know I am.
The big news is that I can now place weight on my ankle, stand for short periods of time, and inadvertently took a few steps yesterday. (Talking with friends can be so fun and distracting; you may start walking without even thinking about it!) Today I walked around the house quite a bit and am now recovering on the couch. This is very, very good news.
However, I have been concerned about staying healthy since I can no longer run each night. While using crutches does give me a stellar upper body and core workout, I need to get back to consuming more vegetables in my diet. (We’ve done a LOT of take-out the past two weeks.) The good news is that since I’ve stopped running, my appetite is much smaller. The bad news is that it’s harder to get in the kitchen with crutches.
That being said, I have been doing some cooking, focusing on preparing veggie intensive, healthful meals.
I pulled out our trusty recipe binder and found several salads and healthful grains to prepare this week: Quinoa Salad with Pears, Baby Spinach and Chickpeas in a Maple Vinaigrette; Golden Spice Rice with Chickpeas (from Feeding the Whole Family: Recipes for Babies, Young Children, and Their Parents); Green Beans with Roasted Nuts and Cranberries; and Garlicky Shrimp and Spinach. Yum yum!
