The Best Breakfast

2 slices of ciabatta, sliced on the diagonal

lightly toasted

slathered in butter

drizzled in honey.

bliss.

New Reads....

New Cookbook:

Vietnamese Cooking Made Easy

my next purchase will be the Filipino volume.

Books to inspire our upcoming remodel:

The Barefoot Home

Creating the Not So Big House

Patterns of Home

I think the expression 'your eyes are bigger than your stomach' applies here somehow.

the incredible shrinking woman...

i haven't told too many folks about this. ok, who am I kidding?!?! I've been telling puhlenty of folks.

There's less of me to love!

Why, you ask?

Well, I've been on this little thing called a diet (didn't Richard Simmons call it a live-it?) and I've lost.....

(drumroll please....)

18 pounds so far!

Pretty cool, huh?

I still have another 15-20 to go, but I'm pretty darn proud of myself. ok, enough bragging, back to our regularly scheduled lack of posting.

Bliss is...

Booking a relaxing family vacation....in Maui.

And it's in November - all signs point to a diaper free holiday.

Yay.

p.s. Just watch, now I'll get pregnant and it will be a mai tai free holiday too.