Whirlwind of good

Today has been such a whirlwind, and T just told me that he'll be in CA Tues-Thurs. Mamma mia. I told him I wish he'd given me more head's up, but really, what does that accomplish?! He'll be back in time to trick-or-treat so there's that! This morning we watched Brave which I thought was delightful. Jack was thrilled that archery was the primary theme, Oliver was happy that a princess was involved, and I just liked the whole thing overall. Plus I managed to also read some of the paper during the viewing. Then I headed off to a happy, full-of-love baby shower, raced home to change and then made my way to the baseball field for Jack's last game of the season.

Blue Devils vs Wolfpack, and the latter, last year's League Champs, were definitely the favorite going on. Hard work, teamwork and a never-give-up spirit, though, enabled the Blue Devils to come from behind and win big. I think our team's parents were absolutely as excited as the kids. Jack scored the go-ahead run, and the boys just did such a great job overall. What a great way to call it a day so to speak! Jack's in the catcher gear.

After a quick celebration, I scurried home for my writing class via conference call. As I've said before, I feel really lucky to have met this group of women and always love our time together. Today's class was terrific! Cheers, women!

I just made a lovely dinner of leftover farro salad plus toast with avocado and aged balsamic. Divine. T is watching football, so I'm going to tuck myself in with the paper and plan to get my shut-eye on in the not-too-distant future.

Friday, Friday, you finally arrived

Today was one of those during which I felt like a whack-a-mole. I had a meeting, scurried home to cook, had a meeting, scurried home to cook, picked the kids up and took J to baseball/played on the playground with Ol/scurried home to cook. I am in great shape for the dinner tomorrow night, but hell's bells did I move today. After I uncrimped my body from post-workout stun this morning that is. Seriously, when I awoke, I thought I was experiencing muscular paralysis in about 90% of my body. Two weeks off a sore gal makes. Anyway, all good and I'm in great shape now. The gig is a 70th birthday party for a very cool woman. She and her husband have such a wonderful spirit about them and an exciting palate to boot. For the menu they chose: rosemary-rubbed salmon with parsnips/mushrooms/potatoes; leek confit and aged goat cheese tarts; Louisiana red beans and rice; curried cauliflower; roasted beets with horseradish sauce; Brussels sprouts slaw with candied pecans and mustard vinaigrette; roasted sweet potatoes with hazelnut gremolata; pumpkin cheesecake; and chocolate-almond cakes with chocolate-rum ganache frosting.

You want to go to the party too, don't you!?

T and I kept dinner simple tonight and grilled a marvelous pizza. I managed to take the two worst photos in the world of it so will definitely not share them with you, but I will say that the mozzarella di bufala that Vace imports is out of control great, and topped with kale and sauteed portabellos, olive oil and truffled salt, well... it pretty much rendered me speechless.

As I have no pics of any food for you tonight, I will instead leave you with two of my darling boys. I took the one of Jack (and Ol though he looks a bit silly), and a fab teacher at their school took the one of Ol. Frame-worthy, both of them!

Cheese

I just bought so much cheese at Whole Foods (remember, all hand-cut cheeses are 25% off today) that I should be arrested for dairy gluttony! Kinda awesome.

This farro salad last night was also awesome, as are these huge honking cauliflowers I just bought! Yee-haw!