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Have any of you tried my simple naan bread yet?   It made a really good breakfast sandwich yesterday.  Although I tried to crisp it up in the toaster, but that just made it soft and chewy, which I didn’t mind at all!  The naan bread is 3 points, on the inside is egg whites, spinach and an ounce of Trader Joe’s mozzarella (1) and fruit...

Happy Monday!  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.  It was very low key at my house this year and it was perfect.  I can’t tell you how many years I would start menu planning two weeks in advance, start cooking Saturday morning the day before Easter and get up early Easter morning to get the ham going and making Parker House rolls from...

My MacBook Pro is no longer holding a charge. I ordered a new charger so we will see if that works. I’ve been blogging on my way to work – it’s very tedious to blog from my phone – I can type way faster on my laptop. So it will be a quick post today. I have to give Hannah a shout out because I...

I hit the ground running when I got to work so didn’t eat my breakfast until around 10:00. An open faced egg white sammie in a high fiber muffin (I forgot my cheese at home!) with fruit drizzled with two teaspoons of reduced fat Jif peanut butter. Breakfast was 5 points. Charlie, have you seen the Tabasco sriracha?? So good! I have to give a...

At approximately 5:55 am yesterday, a man parked his car and walked onto the train tracks and stood until a speeding commuter train killed him. Obviously the commute to work was interesting. Thanks to an Instagram story my friend Tia alerted me. I drove two train stations and waited until the trains started running. I got to my desk at 10:30. So many people were...

My Pit Barrel Cooker is a great addition to my BBQ set up. I didn’t care that it was only 35 degrees yesterday, I was going to grill.  It helped that I bought packages of chicken wings for $1.70 each at Jewel in the discount meat bin.  And it also helped that I had this amazing cooker.  Yes, that’s what is called – a Pit...

I woke up yesterday to balloons everywhere!  Hannah had them hanging outside my bedroom door and in the kitchen.  I love her so much.  We all got up to wish Jacob well on the first day of a new job.  It was 7:15 when he left and I thought to myself, I could probably sleep for another 45 minutes, and I brought the dogs back...

Mom, can you believe your babies below are 50 years old?!  How the hell did that happen?  What’s weird is that for some reason I thought this morning about how old my step-son is going to be – and next year he will be THIRTY years old.  What the what?! How did time go by so fast?  I have no idea.  Hannah still always remembers...

I kind of love it when I have leftover beef that can morph into breakfast.  It’s already Thursday and my meal plan is a little off because I thought I’d have leftovers for lunch – that giant 64 ounce steak I cooked on Sunday?  Only THREE ounces was leftover and four people ate it.  I think Hannah’s friend Melody went back for the beef three...

Some birthday parties I had for Hannah when she was growing up were so warm I had water balloons and other times I was shoveling five inches of snow. I remember her 7th birthday she was going to a Young Scientists Club at school from 9-12 in the morning.  It was perfect because I still needed to finish her cake, it snowed and I had...