About Me
We are Sara, Kyle, Noah, and Eli living in the city. These our are adventures: cooking, playing, creating, laughing, and yes, sometimes, crying. We believe strongly in the "it takes a village" philosophy to not only raise children but to also build a community of people to help each other. Welcome to our little hut in this great big world. "Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it." - Danny Kaye
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Blog Interrupted
…by life!
It’s one thing after another, and the blog gets pushed to the side.
The biggest interrupter has been grad school. I started off the semester behind because I dropped a class and added another and was a week behind. I am also interning at two schools because that is part of my coursework. Darn! I had forgotten what work was like, it’s rough. I’m not even working full time, but having to be somewhere at a particular time is gruelling. Waa waa waa!
On the flipside, it is nice to get out and talk to people.
I hope to be back in full force in March.
I miss checking in on my bloggy friends!
I’ll be back! Or maybe I just need to set some blogging goals. Could I do two times a week? Perhaps.
Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken Tikka Masala
I’m going to start making a habit of finding at least one recipe for Kyle to make on the weekends. He’s such a great cook! This weekend he made Chicken Tikka Masala from Cook’s Illustrated Sept/Nov 2007 issue. I admire and drool over the recipes in Cook’s, I don’t often take on the challenge and try out the recipes inside. We have a subscription more for Kyle because the magazine gets pretty technical about cooking methods and can go into the science-y side. (Zzzzzz 
j/k)
It was a hit with the kids and should be added into the rotation or at least make cooking hits of 2010.
I learned about Chicken Tikka by going with the brother-in-laws to Masala Wok which makes a fast food chicken tikka. We were so excited when we got a home recipe to make. The article posing the question ” Why is it so rarely made at home?” I know I get intimidated by Indian recipes because I tend to think they require a lot of time and attention. I’d actually like to know if an easy Indian cookbook exists.
Now that the holiday rush is over, I’m looking forward to cooksxporations in the kitchen! I want to find a Naan recipe to try out.
Naan-y Naan-y boo boo
Big bite.
2010 Intentions
Image: Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
I’ve been reading about an intention plan series over at Scraps of My Geek Life. (Brief and distracted reading thou, I’m watching Kendra in the background and it might be making me dumber 
, but I can’t stop myself from watching.) I’m planning to explore the intention exercises.
I would say my top 5 intentions for 2010 are:
1. Save, save, save
- use money more wisely. I am prone to not do this. I’ve gotten better. But I also get sucked into the “oh but it’s a bargain” mentality and end up with a card full of useless stuff.
-consider how to reuse boxes and knick-knacks around us.This could tie into the create portion of my intention.
2. Write, write, write
-first keeping up with this blog. Exploring how to keep it fresh and continuing to figure out how to document our lives in an engaging way.
-write beyond this blog. Explore my other ideas that have been floating around in my head my whole life. I’d also like to participate in Book-In-A-Week as much as my schedule will allow.
3. Create, create, create
-I want to have interesting activities for the kids to do. I don’t want to rely on the TV as our entertainment. It’s too easy to watch it all day. I need to prepare better for the days when the kids are home.
4. Health, health, health
-Continue to seek exercise and food that can keep me and the whole family healthy.
-get some healthy date time with my husband!
5. Positive Energy, Positive Energy, Positive Energy
-trying to look towards the positive side when the kids are spilling juice all over the carts or blowing out of diapers or up to their usual shennanigans. I stress out all the time. I’d like to dispose of some stress this year. Or at least laugh a hell of a lot more when these situations occur!
-Understanding that saying “no” can be a positive thing in my life.
-Understanding that going slowly is okay.
We are going to get in some uncomfortable situations sometimes. Like Noah and that tree up above. He climbed and climbed, and when he saw where he was, he got a nervous as to how he was going to get down. There was a way, we just had to work together to get him down. And someday, he won’t need us to get down, he discover that it’s not that far to just jump. Must be a metaphor in there some where.
Got to try to stay positive
“And…always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the light side of life…”
-From Monty Python
Twitter: @sarafree- @charliechauvin very sad news you share.
- Word of the day: kleptocrat.
- Chicken and dumplings for dinner, chocolate coconut cream pie for dessert.