02/17/2017
I’m so excited for this round of Weeknight Meal Plan, mostly because of all of the great recipe suggestions you guys left last week! I feel like this is going to be a great way to break out of my usual rotation of meals and try some new things. There is a strong quinoa theme this week which I’m not at all mad about. We’ve also been doing a lot of kale caesar salads as a side since this post, so I’m sure that will pop up at least once. In other news, we spent the week brainstorming ideas for the rest of our spring … 
Happy Valentine’s Day, friends! We started the day off in our house with heart shaped waffles– saving the leftovers for these guys after dinner tonight! Do you guys have plans? I know it’s a day that people tend to have a love/hate relationship with, but it seems like we could all use an excuse to celebrate love over hate. I can remember years past where Valentine’s Day has been a total letdown, not at all living up to expectations. I also have really wonderful memories, though, too. Memories of my dad coming into … 
Parker is currently in a phase where she constantly asks me to tell her stories about when she was a baby. I proceed to tell her about seemingly mundane moments like the first time we took her to visit the ducks at Franklin Canyon Park or the first time she rode the horses at the Studio City Farmer’s Market. I tell her other stories like what happened on the night she was born when they first laid her in my arms and she looked up at me with these squinty eyes, making such strong eye contact or her first trip to Disneyland when we … 
When I was in college I worked on the weekends for a wonderful family, doing some of their grocery shopping and errand running so that they could enjoy more time with their kids. Every Sunday afternoon, the mother would sit at the dining room table with her favorite cookbooks and come up with a meal plan for the week and then carefully craft a grocery list accordingly. It’s taken me many years to get in the habit of planning our weeknight meals ahead of time, and some weeks are better than others (Aaron can attest), but it’s … 
