Life

OMG, the sleeping weather last night was amazing!!  So amazing I slept in until 9:45 this morning.  And I am scooping up my Mom and have to leave soon to have her birthday lunch in Chicago with my sister at Heaven on Seven. I haven’t been to Heaven on Seven in years.  Back in the day I used to walk a mile from my office...

It’s so crazy that with 365 days in the year, I have three family birthdays three days in a row!  Today my Mom turns 76 years young.  I started putting a collage together of all the pictures of just me and my Mom, but there were so many the pictures would be so tiny that I decided to just share a few.   Just proving that...

I wish the quality of this picture was better, but this is the image I have of you Joe when we first met.  Long time readers will remember that this picture was taken a mere three weeks after Tony and I met and it was at my law firms company picnic.  We basically moved in together a week after that photo was taken, got married...

When our Head Chef Courtney planned our theme for Cooking Club more than a month ago, who would have known that we would still be having temps in the 80s!  The last gasp of summer menu was perfect for last night. On the menu: Drinks were provided by Lindsay.  She made a blood orange soda sangria.  It was so light and refreshing! One 750-ml bottle...

One thing I love about having leftover artisan bread is making a filling toast out of it.  Yesterday was egg whites with schredded zucchini and cheddar cheese (7) with hot and spicy link sausage (4) (that I tried to put on top of my toast, but miserably failed so that’s why it is on the side) and grapes and strawberries for dessert. Hannah and Jacob,...

I had no idea what to expect going into my WI yesterday.  My eats have been all over the map – still trying to figure out how to eat around my schedule.  So I was happy with the –1.6.  So I’ve actually lost 4.4 pounds in the last four weeks! But in 16 weeks with the ups and downs, I am actually only down 1.2...

This is going to be a quick post because I have to catch the train to go back to work this morning.  I am hoping I’ll have time to pick up breakfast at Revival Food Hall – the couple times I’ve tried to go it’s been a madhouse, so we’ll see! I used random.org to pick a winner of my 8 year blog anniversary. True...

If my blog were a child, it would be entering the third grade.   I probably say this every year, but I never would have dreamed in a million years that I would still be blogging 8 years after I started.  For the first 8 months I had my blog, if I got 50 page views in a day I thought I was hot shit.  But...

Morning!  I am having technical difficulties this morning.   My pictures won’t download, my monitor keeps shutting itself off.  Gah.  Anywho, I have to run to a doctors appointment and then am having lunch with an old high school friend today, so no time to post my recipe from dinner last night, which was amazing by the way! I made a 1 smart point mushroom and...

I think I fell asleep dreaming about the brisket I had at my company BBQ.  And not a shocker, I knew I was going to incorporate it into my breakfast somehow.  Lordy, was this a delicious breakfast toast!  1.5 ounce sourdough bread toast (3) 2 ounces of the brisket chopped (3) scrambled with egg whites and topped with 1/2 an ounce of cheddar cheese (2)...