Wednesday CSA Day

This week, our box contains: Rainbow chard, kale, Easter radishes, rainbow carrots, asparagus, grapefruit, tangerines, red potatoes and a couple types of lettuce.

Cady is playing with her bunnies before dinner.

Disneyland

We will post more pictures, but here are a couple. Cady really enjoyed her first trip to Disneyland! Thank you, Tita Cionie for the tickets. We enjoyed seeing you!

We also went through the old neighborhood, the house looks great! We are so glad to have a property manager that does a good job. That, coupled with great neighbors who keep an eye on the house, makes landlord ing much less of a headache.

We head home tomorrow, and Cady will start in her new classroom Monday. She asked us to put her on the potty four times this weekend! She is getting so, so big!

Wednesday CSA Day

We picked up our new box today. Cady dug right in. That is bok choy she's eating. Daikon radish soup tomorrow evening!

Leeks are Goooood!

We had some more veggies from our CSA box tonight. Cady had fun helping in the kitchen. We made a Carmelites leek and bleu cheese flatbread. It was excellent, we will absolutely have that again!

Cady is on antibiotics again for another ear infection. Luckily, this one isn't too bad. Her stomach bug is gone, too. Here's hoping she gets and stays healthy after this round of antibiotics. We will probably need to take her in for a blood test to see about her allergies. Hopefully we won't need to, we'll see.

A Day at the Beach

We took Cady to the beach on Saturday. We all had so much fun. Cady loved playing in the sand and picking up shells and rocks. It was a beautiful day, we will be back soon!

CSA and Catching Up

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, you should see if you have a CSA in your area. We just got our first box of produce from ours. Since we're right here in the middle of some of the world's best farmland, and since I'm working with the agriculture industry now, we have decided to take advantage of it and support it. We will get a box of produce every two weeks, like the one below. The majority of it is organic, and all of it is grown locally. This week's box included Guajillo chilis, organic baby cauliflower, organic celery, organic golden beets, organic grapefruit, organic cabbage, organic romaine, organic tangelos and organic chard.

That brings us to chard, red chard, specifically. No one in this house has had it until tonight. And, until tonight, I had never used puff pastry, nor had I ever handled chard. I sautéed the chard in balsamic vinegar, olive oil, garlic and black pepper. Then I put it in puff pastry with some feta cheese. It was very, very tasty. We will definitely have it again sometime.

Cady is doing well, we love her new doctor. She is over her bout with pnumonia, thankfully. She's back to sleeping through the night, too. We think her issues are of all things...allergy related. She is taking an allergy/asthma medicine, and is on a breathing treatment twice daily. She is having a good time and learning a lot. We are starting to potty train, feel free to share your tips!

We just booked a trip to Alabama and Ohio, we are looking forward to seeing everyone this summer.

Happy New Year

We had a great bike ride on the trail today! Looking forward to doing it again soon. Happy new year everyone!