Mmmmm....veggies!

 

 

I thought I'd share the awesome dinner that I had tonight. Picture 1 is baked sweet potatoes. I LOVE fries and this is a really nutritious way to trick myself. I cut them (leaving the skins on) brush them with some olive oil and toss them in the toaster oven. That's the same with the beets that are still in there baking. They needed some extra time. The 2nd picture is a stir fry of kale (oh, how I love kale!), orange peppers, and mushrooms. Again, in a little bit of olive oil. The kale is boiled slightly first to soften. The "sprinkles" is actually shelled hemp seed. It doesn't really have any flavor and has tons of omegas and lots of protein.
Later tonight I am trying goat yogurt for the first time. I've always been curious about it and it was on sale (usually pretty expensive). I love goat cheese, so we'll see!

 

 

 

Bad Sarah. Actually, this is an old vault in a building that used to be a bank. It's now a coffee house. So much fun to sit in the vaults!
Ah, Sunday morning. A cup of tea, a book, and sunshine atop my roof.
Project that I did tonight. Super easy. Not perfect, but perfectly cute. There are 3 little boys I know that will be turing 1 this year... =)

randomness

 

 

 

 

and then there was Afgan food....

Last night I went to an Afgan food (as in food from Afganistan) restaurant. It was a gamble as I have never had that and didn't know what to expect. It was AWESOME!!!!!!!!! Below is a picture of what I had. There's rice, pumpkin, okra, spinich, and eggplant. So yummy!

MMMMM....yummy. Thank you to the makers of this Punjab Eggplant and for making it so speedy and easy to cook. It went really well with my naan from Whole Foods. My belly thanks you.
Never had this? You should totally try it!

Crisis of the Week

Well, it turns out that there can be worse things than the crisis from last week. Sigh. That's all I can say at the moment, way too emotionally drained.

in the middle of a crisis

Today was one of the hardest days that I have faced at my job. Not due to being no-showed for appts. or difficult parents. Not even horrible weather or traffic or the mountain of paper work. Today it was emotional. It was hard. It was infuriating. It was sad.
Homelessness was not something that I had a personal connection to for most of my life. Most people don't. It is easy to assume that people that end up homeless must bring it on themselves. They must be drug addicts or people that are irresponsible. It's sure what the media might lead us to believe.
When I first thought of homelessness I thought of adults. However, with my first visit as a therapist to a shelter last summer I got a different glimpse. Children. There were so many children. Babies and toddlers just starting life. All of the belongings that a family has in garbage bags piled up in a hallway. So many people counting on a system that is broken at best. I recently read that it was estimated that Americans gave around $580 million to the relief fund after the Haiti earthquake. That country is so needy and I applaud the generosity. However, it is hard to see these families in our own country and how they are living. There are millions of homeless children in the U.S.
To walk into a small room and have to step over bags of belongings that cover the floor make it real. For someone to pull out of a garbage bag the one family photo that they own to show you. To hear their stories and respect their struggle. To try to offer them at the least an ear to listen and maybe a little bit of hope.

tofu night

 

It may not be perfected, but my tofu is pretty spectacular. The key is that you have to toss it in a bowl or zip loc bag with corn starch and then put it in the skillet. That forms the "crust" that it has when ordered in a restaurant. Super yummy. This batch also has kale (something I'm newly addicted to thanks to my wife) and mushrooms. Oh how good it is in the belly! I can't wait for farmers' market season. I try to buy local when possible and it's so much easier in the summer. Many New England farms are organic or are but just can't afford the government label of organic. I try to eat organic as much as possible. Also, the utensils in the picture are sustanable bamboo. I am slowly starting to rid my kitchen of plastic and go to bamboo utensils for cooking. =)

a few days in Philly

 

 

 

 

Thursday morning I set out to Philly to visit Tracy, Johnny, and their twin 8 month old boys. Here are a few pictures of Carter and Jacob. #2 is Carter and #3 is Jacob. They are so cute and I miss them already! The last picture is some of the homemade baby food that I made for them.

late night crab rangoon....oh city living, how i love thee....but how i'll feel like a heifer in the morning thank goodness for afternoon therapy.....

Saturday

 

 

 

 

This Saturday the weather was AMAZING! It was in the 70s and Sarah and I took advantage. Our feet were so happy to hit the sand. I missed the ocean all winter! We couldn't resist adding to our collection of shadow shots. There was even a cute doggy that was enjoying the weather. Unfortunately, it's going to rain for the next few days.

it's a friday

No shows at a homeless shelter, baby vomit, and domestic violence. All in a day's work. =)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Hip Hop!

Tonight was the start of my hip hop dance class. We had so much fun! Who would have thought that I would be in a dance class?!

 

 

 

sarah and i celebrated the sunny and somewhat warm weather by a trip to the mt. auburn cemetary. it's an awesome place and all of these pics are from there. really, people hang out here. it's not creepy like it sounds.

more

 

 

 

 

a cemetary day

 

 

 

 

and some more...

wifeys and dance floors, 3am poptarts and SITC marathons are always a DO

awesome-ness on 2 levels

 

 

What an awesome gift from my wife that I got tonight. She brough it back from L.A.
Tonight also was a multiple cocktail night. Attacked at work makes for a rough day. Now don't get all worried about me. It was by a kid, but still not so fun. I'm fine. No blood drawn. Let's hope for better tomorrow.

Today was a huge leap out of my comfort zone. Sarah and I went to a Hip Hop class. There is a local center that's offering a sampling of their classes this week. TOnight was hip hop and tomorrow is belly dancing. We had lots of fun tonight, even though i CAN"T DANCE AT ALL. We'll see how tomorrow goes.