Lots of goodies today! First up, my collaboration kit with my awesome friend, Liz, of Paislee Press! This collab has been talked about for YEARS, and I am so happy that it's actually here! We make a pretty darn good team!
And for a limited time, you can grab 2 fabulous quick pages for absolutely free! Click HERE to purchase ZIPPY HIPPY. :) Here's a bit of a better peek at the papers:
They are seriously yummy! I am so in love with the colors!
I'm getting back into the groove around here. Even when I leave for just a couple of days, it takes me a bit to get back into the swing of things. I wish I could hit the ground running, but apparently I need more time to decompress than most. :) Here are some photos from my adventures of being a supermom wannabe.
Almost every day for lunch, the kidlets and I consume rice and kimchi. It's a habit. So, I smell like hot, pickled cabbage and so do the wee ones. We can't help ourselves. Even the Noodle partakes of the goodness. She calls kimchi, "chim chim" and it the cutest thing ever. And since we've discovered furikake, the kids would eat this stuff for every meal if we let them. Furikake is a topping you sprinkle on your rice and they should change the name to "CONDIMENT HEAVEN". As if I really needed to be more enamored of Japanese food!
Yesterday, I prepared the kidlets their bento lunch, but it wasn't really photo worthy. Today's was rather purdy, though, so I snapped a quick pic of it.
Of course, I have to make 3 on Thursdays. Noodle goes to school all day, so I packed her a diminutive version. We'll call it "Le Petit Bento" since I'm still rather fresh off the plane from France. All I need is a beret and a jumpsuit and I can pretend I work on the assembly line at the Ford factory in France. Do they even have a Ford factory in France? Oui? Non? Hmmmm?
In about an hour, my kiddos will be chowing down on yogurt with fresh strawberries, blueberries and Cheerios, a mini Caprese salad with fresh basil, little garlic bread pretzel things, and apple butter on whole wheat PLUS bread. The PLUS is important, as you know. PLUS is very good for you. I tried to give them more food, but they literally can't eat it all. This may be a way for me to buy much cuter, much smaller bento boxes. (Of course, this conflicts with my self-induced budget...sigh..) And the girls have told me that their lunches are a great intrigue in the lunchroom. Everyone wants to know what they've brought every day. Pretty cool huh? Being different is apparently...cool. And I have to give mad props to my daughters for not only taking furikake to school, but reveling in their lunch glory like madwomen as well.
So, after I dropped them all off at school, I had a lovely, leisurely walk back home all by my lonesome. The garbage men had just emptied my trash can, so I grabbed that and headed to my backyard to deposit it. On the way there, though, was evidence of what I believe to be our first domestic homicide.
Oh the poor poor birdy. I hope against hope that this bird is OK somewhere. I am a wuss. Then I realied that the garden was lookin' pretty cheerful, so I ran inside to grab my camera. I took a photo of the crime scene. (A silent moment for the bird, please.)
Thank you. :)
Let's take a stroll through my backyard shall we?
Ah, that's nice. Such a beautiful day. Hardly a cloud in the sky. I hope everyone is having a wonderful day! Thursdays are my days off, so I'm outta here. Lots of fun, non-puter stuff I want to do. Ciao, all!
