So yummy I ate before I remembered to take a picture...
Lentils (steamed ones from trader joe's)
2 beets (also from tj)
1 big cucumber (diced)
1 tbs of sunflower seeds
Apple cider vinegar, salt, pepper.
So good, filling, refreshing. Next time I might add cherry tomatoes and raisins. Yuuummm.
I made crockpot chicken last night for tacos (chicken + salsa), then instead of throwing away the salsa-y broth it created, I added corn, onion, garbanzo beans, cilantro, water and some taco seasoning and made soup!
In the bowl I added a little cheese and a bunch of tomato. I plan on freezing half of it. No wasted leftovers, hooray!
I love county/state fairs more than many things in this world. I try to make it to the orange county fair multiple times a summer. I've even been to the Alaskan State fair (where I rode a mechanical salmon, by the way).
My favorite things about the fair are the knitting, quilting and crochet, the wood working, centennial farms... oh man, all of it.
This year was a little different with baby in tow. Lots of finding a good place to feed him. But I did get a chance to go through the textile exhibits twice and got all inspired. Next year I will submit a piece or two, just have to decide what!
One of the great things about living in this great big park are the lectures that the Friends of Griffith Park host periodically.
Tonight a researcher from UCLA discussed her research about rodenticides and their impact on bobcats. We have a bunch of bobcats here in gp, which was one of the areas she studied. It's a pretty clear correlation now between when these poisons are introduced into the environment and the fatalities of the urban carnivores, with enough of an increase in deaths due to mange that that became a focal point of her study. Recently, Griffith Park's famous mountain lion P22 was found to have mange, most likely due to the correlation between the rodenticides he is exposed to amd the inflammation to the immune system it causes.
Interesting information, and there's a lot more at urbancarnivores.com and on the facebook page of the same name.
#200happydays day 17
Makes me feel like such an in tune mother.
Nothing makes me happier than spending the day in a sunshiney park with unschooling moms while cuddling my baby close in a sling.
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| I can feed him anywhere! |
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| entertaining babies |
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| we found a field! |
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| Grizzly Falls |
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| Torturing our son on our car trip to Fresno... |
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| Little family portrait |
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| Baby absolutely enthralled by the ceiling fans |
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| Baby BFFs hanging out |
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| Wyatt's dog, friend, and protector |
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| Time to swim... and totally unsure about this wet stuff |
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| Trying on hats! |
My sister recently went to England for a few weeks, and when she came back she brought Wyatt this Padington. Too adorable not to be my happy days post.
#200happydays day 11
Today a neighbor took me on a tour of their backyard, so that I can come swim whenever I want. They've rescued dogs, rabbits, and a goat from the park (my husband actually rescued the goat and gave it to the neighbor). All the houses in our neighborhood are built into the hills, so their Jacuzzi is up some beautiful mosaic toled steps and has a great view. Pictures will come, I am sure.
The happiness here...a husband who talked up how much I love to swim, a neighbor who offered.
#200happydays day 10
Wednesdays are park days, the staple of any good homeschooling week. Today was a small group. We sat in the shade, and I sang to the baby while he laid looking at the trees and squawking.
#100happydays #200happydays day 9
It's been a while since I've posted anything about this fantastic park I live in. It's been so hot the last few days that I have either hidden myself and baby away behind dark shades, or gone down to my family's houses for swimming pools. So, time to revisit!
This popped up on my facebook feed today -- Griffith J Griffith, well known as being the man who donated the money to build Griffith Park... is also known for Shooting His Wife In The Head (through an eye, actually). It is HIS statue I drive by every day to get home!
So, he makes her get on bended knee, shoots her in the eye, she *survives*, and jumps off a balcony to escape.
That's not why I am choosing this as one of my #200happydays posts. The happiness for me comes by way of the fact that we have a diagram of this event, and that we have the right combination of archiving and technology that I can share it with you now.
#200happydays day 8
First, my happy days post was going to be about loading the car up with baby and husband, swimsuits and go pro, and heading to my sister's to swim the day away. But then I got home and discovered a new and fun photo editing app on my phone.
Today really was a sweet, simple day. We outlasted three different servers at a restaurant for lunch, swam for hours watching little kids learning how to swim, had frozen yogurt, and flew my husband's drone with his new first person goggles. And of course, all this with Wyatt oeering out of his carseat and over shoulders, taking it all in. He makes every little experience sweeter.
#200happydays day 7
It sounds cheesy to say that my best friends are my family, but it is very, very true. There is no one I would rather spend time with than my sisters, no one I think is smarter than my mom and no one I find as delightful as my dad.
One sister lives in San Francisco now, and came down on the bus this week. My mom picked her up in the early morning at Union Station, and since I was awake feeding the baby, they brought breakfast to my house. We sat on the front lawn eating pancakes and talking baby talk to Wyatt.
Of course, I forgot to take pictures of that.
But here are some of Wyatt with my family.
#200happydays, day 6
I remember before we were married taking my husband to Disneyland. "That was fun," he said, "it'll be more fun when we take our kids." Same thing at the apple orchards. We both looked forward to seeing all these places through the eyes of little children.
Every day my baby is a little more alert. Every day his field of vision seems to expand, and he expresses more. Today we were walking through The Lab ( used to be called the anti-mall), in Costa Mesa, when we parked his stroller underneath trees that had been yarn bombed. It was sunny, there was a lot of light playing in the branches, and he was delighted.
We were lucky to get photos of some of his experience. Everything is brand new for him. And I'm so lucky, as I watch what he's watching, that it is all brand new to me all over again, too.
