 Hello there.
Isn’t that a sexy face?
How about this one?
I guess this one is more of a pitiful face. It looks like someone beat him up.
So what’s with the faces?
This weekend we made our annual trip to get haircuts for the boys. We like to save a little moolah and only do it once a year. Seems like the best way to save money, doesn’t it?
Well, it appears as if the irregularity and infrequency in barber shop visits may have created a bit of an ingrained fear in one of the boys. Panic set in as soon as he was hoisted into the barber’s chair and told it was haircut time. He fought valiantly, but I won.
And doesn’t he just look so cute now? Happy as a clam. As long as there is a lollipop involved.
Another equally amazingly exciting thing that happened this week was this:
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I’ve been thinking. Yes, sometimes I do get a moment of mental clarity to actually sort our my thoughts. Usually is occurs around the time I am closing my eyes to go to sleep, mind still racing, small chubby cheek pressed up against my breast, a tangle of arms and legs below the blanket and not a pen or pad of paper anywhere in reach. These are the times I treasure though, when I can just think.
Sometimes it’s about the past and things I’ve done, and thinking of ways I might have been able to do them differently and wondering what the outcome would have been. But mostly I think about the future and what I’m going to do. About the dream we have to buy a boat, and travel down the west cost with our growing family until we hit the Panama Canal, eating our way through different cultures and writing about it. Then turning tail and heading up the East Coast to do the same thing there, stopping in the Caribbean for awhile and seeing where the tide takes us. Since our plan is to homeschool our children, the learning potentials are awesome and I can’t imagine what the experience would be like for them.
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Skirt steak, sometimes confused with hanger steak and flank steak.
Let’s clarify, shall we? Skirt, flank and hanger all come from the same general area of the cow, the lower rib region. There are four main cuts that come from this area: Brisket, skirt, flank and hanger (there is also the short ribs cut from here too), although good luck finding a hanger steak at most retail outlets as it is not a popular cut and is often ground up for hamburger meat.
The skirt steak is cut from the diaphragm, and includes the inside and outside skirt. The inside skirt is what you will find in the grocery store. Although you could use flank steak in place of skirt in most recipes, I prefer the skirt steak for it’s thinness, texture and excellent flavour.
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Pssst…..
Guess what today is?
27 years ago today, my poor mother laboured for many hours in a hospital bed. Then I came into the world, all 5 lbs. 10oz of me. My older sister’s dreams of being an only child were shattered in those moments and life has never been the same.
That’s right, today is my birthday.
I look forward to painting my toenails a glorious shade of fuchsia, travelling into the “big city” with my growing family, eating the most delicious tuna tacones the world has ever known and then finishing it off with a double scoop ice cream cone. Chocolate dipped waffle cone please.
What could be a better way to say, “Happy Birthday” to me? I can’t wait to see our little guy’s face covered in his first ice cream cone experience, and I can’t wait to spend an evening by the ocean side, enjoying every minute this life has to offer.
I’m not getting older, only more beautiful and wise.
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Tacos, tacos tacos, burritos, cilantro, guacamole, salsa, sour cream, tortillas….they all play a huge role in my life. Why? Am I actually part Mexican and have been hiding it from you all this time? Sadly, no. That would give me a great excuse to love this food, though I think if I was culturally attached in a bloodline kind of way, I’d probably have a lot more authentic recipes. Sadly, I am your typical European Isles ancestor type (Scottish, Irish, English).
My reasons for loving Mexican food with unabashed passion are thus:
1. My parents live in Mexico for 6 months out of the year and the best gift I receive upon their triumphant return, is new recipes to try!
2. Hubby and I have take a couple vacations in the land of sun and tequila (including our honeymoon) and we have a certain special attachment.
3. We got married on Cinco De Mayo.
4. Last but not least, who doesn’t love Mexican food?! I know people have strange aversions to cilantro (I used to too!) and spicy foods, but there is so much more to our Southern neighbours glorious food than that!
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