Dinner tonight was beautiful (it tasted pretty good, too). We had black bean soup with lots of vegetable and spices, sauteed zuchinni with toasted sesame oil and sesame seeds, sweet potato oven fries with cumin and cinnamon, and fresh pineapple. I wanted to take a picture, but I wanted to eat more than I wanted to go upstairs and get the camera ( Read more... )

I have been reading Chris Johnson's On Target Living, and I love it. It combines detail with clarity, and even though I helped create an elearning series based on the concepts, I'm still learning so much from what I'm reading. I've been reading a lot of books lately--The China Study, Eat to Live, Food Rules, Fast Food Nation, In Defense of Food-- ( Read more... )

About a month ago Rachael challenged me to a month of vegan eating. The China Study is a book that promotes a plant-based whole foods diet, and it's pretty convincing. The author suggests trying it out for a month. We decided to do it together. I'm now on week 3, and I can't imagine going back ( Read more... )

I could probably title every post "Grateful for Tender Mercies" because it seems the Lord is blessing me or members of my family in large and small ways every day. Today Rosalind was in an accident--the car ahead of her on the way to school braked suddenly, and she was in the middle of one of those large puddles on Westnedge that collect when it ( Read more... )

This is a happy day, in a happy week. Seminary is great. The kids fit well together, and I see this group being active contributors if I don my part to encourage them. We had a good day today, and they are getting the hang of reading for class ( Read more... )

So I was sitting in seminary yesterday during a video watching the kids interacting a bit, and I thought "I really like this. I'm so glad I'm here ( Read more... )

So today has been a very good day. I'm excited about the seminary year; we seem to have a really good class, and it's so much fun to be back in seminary again. I find myself thinking about the next day's lesson all day. It's a great way to dwell upon the things of eternity throughout the day ( Read more... )

I keep looking for new posts from Provo, but they don't appear very often. At least, not as often as I would like, which is at least once a day and preferably morning, noon, and night. Maybe a bit unreasonable, but I thought if I post then maybe my karma will improve ( Read more... )

So I was under strict instructions to take pictures and post details about the Japanese cooking class I attended the night the girls flew back to Utah. Except it is very complicated to post pictures, and I can't remember how to access photobucket, so the pictures are still on the computer ( Read more... )

So Isaac is a pretty cute kid, and he is fairly easy-going at this point, as well. He eats, poops quite a lot, and spends some waking time looking around. He also makes noises like a creaky door closing. He has tons of black hair, that seems to creep from his head down his back and across his forehead. At this point, he eats at night and goes ( Read more... )