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I’ve decided to write my blogs in the morning before work – it makes perfect sense!  It’s quiet, I can enjoy a cup of coffee and listen to the news on the t.v. in the background.  It’s a balmy 9 degrees this morning! 🙁 For full disclosure, here is my scale picture from weigh in Monday.  Thanks for all your kind words on agreeing that...

Being off of work all week, I had every intention of going to the gym every day, but that dream pretty quickly faded on day 1!  My co-worker and I are definitely hitting the gym at lunch this week – no excuses! 😀 It will be nice to get back into a routine and have some normal “Biz” eats.  I haven’t used Calorieking all week,...

Of wonderful memories, the love of family, laughing until my stomach hurt and delicious food!  I have so much to be thankful for this year! 😀 Christmas morning started early – Joe had to work so he was at our house at 8:00 a.m.!  Luckily I made his favorite cinnamon rolls the night before, then finished the glaze after he arrived.  Hannah, who doesn’t even...

My brother Charlie and his family are in town so I spent yesterday at my Mom’s house and ended up spending the night.  Charlie didn’t get in until almost 9:00 and then we were up until almost midnight talking and laughing!  He drove 21 hours from Austin to Chicago!  Needless to say he was a bit sleepy, but seemed to get a second wind once...

We stayed local for our anniversary, and chose Porter’s Yellowtail Bar & Grill.  We sat at the bar to begin with, and the bartender could not have been nicer – and hearing that it was our anniversary, the first round was on the house! Once I saw goat cheese on the menu, my appetizer choice was simple!  Tony on the other hand got 1/2 dozen...

including my own!  We just watched our video from our wedding 9 years ago today.  Our kids look so tiny!  I spent the day with my mother in law, Mom and Hannah – we went out to breakfast, I had a manicure and pedicure and had my make-up done.  It’s funny because I rarely wear make-up and when I was watching the video, I looked...

Even though they think most of my pictures are “not crisp,” “unflattering composition,” and “un-compelling subject matter” I got two really good ideas yesterday!  I found one, Tony found the other because he knew it would be right up my alley:  sauerkraut latkes! 1 cup sauerkraut, squeezed dry 1 egg 2 tablespoons flour salt and pepper to taste Just mix and pan fry until crispy...

We had such a fun time with our neighbors last night!  We had a couple errands to run yesterday morning, and since we I didn’t get up until 9:45, we decided to hit up Mama Rini’s for breakfast.  We both had corned beef hash on our mind!  It never fails – crispy crunch on the outside, nice and tender on the inside. Okay, Tony made...

We got about 1/2 an inch of snow overnight, and it looks so pretty outside – I love how fresh snow looks! So everyone was right that the picture yesterday was a back massager!  The weird thing was that my boss gave it to me and said “maybe you and Tony can have fun with this.”  Huh??!! I knew a co-worker was bringing in bagels...

Let me show you: See that red and greenish spread on the lower left hand corner?  It was Goat Cheese Spread:  Herbed Goat Cheese, olive oil, sundried tomatoes, black olives and fresh rosemary and basil.  I don’t even like sundried tomatoes or olives, but the combination was amazing! And I had a glass of this wine.  Not sure what a claret was, but this was...