The Party Found Us

I completely forgot it was St. Patrick's Day until I was getting ready for church today to teach the little kids Primary Songs. I don't even celebrate the day. Neither does Austin. I didn't have anything green and figured I'd get pinched... until I looked down and realized my AFO brace was BRIGHT green. Austin of course, had a tie!

I got sick... again. Can you believe it? So anyway we had to break the sabbath and go to Walmart (don't judge us....) And because I have ear-aches, a sore throat, and swollen sinuses I just wanted popsicles and cold drinks all day. We drove by McDonald's and SHAMROCK SHAKES!! ...Okay, please, I know. Sore throats aren't even a good excuse for this... and totally not keeping the sabbath and I can't believe I'm admitting to it on here. I got one. These things are glory. I look forward to them ALL year long. Kids, don't do this at home.

I mean, who doesn't love that unnatural green?

It's the color of sinners.

And, I am wearing green now ;)

I suppose it was lucky because I was reunited with my favorite cat earrings in which I hadn't seen since high school.

I could not tame my burning face of sickness so I made this awesome raw-food pudding. I'm not really one for those raw food things but this is way too freaking good. And there's vitamin C (too late I know) and ice in it. A dream for me today. Basically you blend cashews, oranges, water, coconut milk, chia seeds, ice and a banana in a blender :)

Austin's been like this all day:

And I suppose so have I, but I get to paint :) Anyway I decided to make dinner tonight because we usually go by the "who has the lesser" and "who knows how to make this recipe."

I made bulgogi, my favorite Korean dish that we can use ingredients that are easy to find here in Idaho. If you know Asian food, there are no recipes, and one temperature: HIGH.

A mish-mash of beef, mushrooms, onions, scallions, garlic (a crapton), oyster sauce, sesame oil, soy sauce (you can get GF), brown sugar, water, spicy unwashed kimchi, sesame seeds, and red chili seeds!

Then of course you wrap it in lettuce leaves with rice, and topped with cold spicy kimchi.

Cleared out my sinuses! So spicy good!

Hopefully it took out the rest of whatever bacteria was in my stomach too haha!

Today ended up great, and we randomly started celebrating St. Patty's Day... and it ended in a great meal :) Hope yours was awesome too!

Comments

Call Me a SAHM in Training

Stay at Home Mom (SAHM) Besides a medical leave and two maternity leaves, I’ve always been a full-time plus on call nurse mom. I am now almost two months into being a SAHM and I would have to still say I’m training! A lot of you have told me routine is so important, and I’ve been trying my darndest to do that. We do library time or errands in the morning, naptime and quiet time after lunch, and art and outdoor/indoor active play until dad comes home! Some days it blows up in my face, much like what we’d call a s-tshow at work, haha! Except these are my monkeys and my circus! But mostly because I am learning and loving it, too. I struggle with anxiety and depression. Ever since I was little. My post-partum depression with R was so difficult. I am so lucky to have an incredible husband and health team that honestly kept me alive during that time. Luckily, I was treated prior to giving birth to A too because a) it was known I get PPD and b) it’s better and easier to tr...

Holiday Hullabaloo

It is full blown Christmas at the Carmens! The boys have been busy with holiday crafts, decorating and drawing. Because the colder weather draws us indoors and off our scooters and bikes (though we still go on walks these days in the bike trailer all bundled up) Our house these days looks more like this: We’ve had so much fun doing all the typical holiday crafts and baking with the boys! We went to Queensgate Gardens where they got to meet Santa and make their own ornament. We also made a Costco ginger bread house (you guys this thing is $9 and prebuilt!), snow globes, sugar cookies, decorated foam gingerbread men... the holidays are the best to fill your time up with kid activities. Finally, and for the first time ever I have a dedicated crafting space. We are still in our apartment saving and waiting for the perfec...

Second Time Around

We got a White Christmas! It continued to snow and the boys had enough to play in after these photos were taken. They were able to build a snow man with Austin, too! Austin was able to take a full week and a half off, so our holiday time was amazing. ^This last photo was actually Christmas Eve as my side of the family celebrates the traditional German way. Austin and I have managed to compromise so that Christmas Eve is a big celebration, nativity-reading, music listening-- and we open non-Santa gifts. Now, in the morning, Santa comes with stockings and their gift. Stockings were pretty amazing when I was a kid! It was a big deal too! Austin's family had very specific things in their stockings that were traditional with Santa like a huge orange, apple, a bag of nuts, etc. that we keep alive, too. We successfully mixed our holiday foods as well. The Carmen family does scones, breakfast casserole, and other fun holiday dishes, and my family did a soup every Christmas Eve...

Braustin Nation

Search This Blog