Well, clearly the weekly recipe recaps didn't quite work out as I'd planned. This is partly because it's summer and I just don't want to cook that much! I just don't have that many recipes to share, and the task of remembering what I'd cooked each day was seeming daunting and not super fulfilling. But then, I came upon this blog post, which is really worth a read if you have time:
http://www.dinneralovestory.com/closing-the-book/
This clearly appeals to my sense of nostalgia. I would love to have some record, however simple, of little events of everyday life to look back on 15 years down the road. It seems so far away right now, of course, but time will continue to march on, and Eleanor will be in high school before I know it. So I'd like to keep a "diary" just of maybe the things we do each day, the food we eat - so simple, but just SOMETHING. I'll look back in ten years and say, "so that was what we did on July 27th, 2014, when Eleanor was 1 year old."
So, without further ado:
July 25th, 2014:
I left work a little early to shop for dinner ingredients for fish tacos for Ellie and me. I got home at 5:15, just in time to cut the fish into cubes and mix up most of the marinade. I got Ellie at 5:30 and we came back and put the sauce on the fish. While it marinaded, we took a BATH! Then we came down and watched "show" while I cooked the fish, chopped some veggies, and we sat down to dinner. A lovely night with my boo boo.
July 26th, 2014:
Ellie slept until 6:50 which was pretty good for a Saturday! I love how she wakes up and likes to stand up and watch me sleep, until she finally says, "Mama!" and then I go get her and bring her into bed. I'd been pretty distant with Kyle for a few days, so he took matters into his own hands and showed up at our door at about 7:45am. We had a very good conversation about us and life, and he made me feel much better, as usual. He helped me with Eleanor as we got ready to go meet Claire R. for some time in Logan Circle. I packed snacks and we got a Pattison Street hoagie from Taylor Gourmet on the way. Eleanor ran around in the park for about 1 straight hour. We all returned for Ellie's nap, and Claire and I watched an episode of VEEP. Kyle came over afterward and we took Eleanor to the park and the store. We had hamburgers, veggies, and corn on the cob for dinner. Eleanor LOVED gnawing on her own corn cob! Kyle went home and we got ready for bed.
July 27th, 2014:
We work up on Sunday for quite an adventure. Ellie and I got out the door early to take the metro up to Cleveland Park to go to "All Fired Up." We painted a plate together! We applied a light base color all over the plate with big paint brushes. Eleanor did a great job with this. I then painted her hand with a darker color, and she made little hand prints to decorate the plate. She loved standing on the stool at the sink and washing her hands!
We then made an impromptu visit to the zoo, as the pottery painting didn't last that long. We walked the few blocks to the zoo, and Ellie wanted to get out and walk around. She did so great, and had lots of fun seeing the cheetah, funny birds, pandas (PAAAAAN!) and elephants. We had the usual crying fit when I put her back in the stroller for the walk home, but I got her a pineapple coconut water and all was well. During her nap, I started cooking pork carnitas for dinner (they cook for hours). When Ellie woke up, she was crabbbbby. But we called Gran and played hide and seek under a blanket, and then we went for a short walk. Kyle met us, and then we returned home to finish the carnitas and eat them with lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream, and tortillas. I have never seen Eleanor eat this much food. She LOVED these carnitas. I had to cut her off!
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July 28th, 2014:
Monday morning was just lovely with Ellie, and she woke me up saying "Mom!" and smiling. Such a pleasant alarm clock! I drank coffee and nursed her and cuddled with her, all the while getting ready for work. This is a pretty standard work morning! It wasn't my Monday night with her, but I picked her up for an hour-long visit. I was feeling sad about not being with her, but I had plans with Claire to go back to the paint-your-own pottery store and have dinner. We had a nice night, and I got Ellie's plate ready for the kiln. We had some calarmari and pizza for dinner. When I got home, I was going to vacuum and clean up a bit before bed, but I started feeling very sick. I crawled to bed, but threw up a bunch of times during the night. I do remember thinking, 1. Here is ONE good thing about Ellie not being here tonight, and 2. I'm not going to get quite as fat now.
July 29th, 2014:
I got to see my Ellie for a short visit in morning to nurse, and then headed off to work at a good time. After another short visit after work, Kyle and I went to Cork for dinner. While we waited for a table outside, we got some glasses of an Italian white. We then sat down in the GORGEOUS fall-like weather, and order rosemary chicken liver pate, grilled asparagus+burrata, lemon pepper calamari and rock shrimp, and duck confit. Glasses of Barbera accompanied the delicious food. We even shared a goat cheesecake for dessert with a glass of Tokaj - a DELICIOUS Hungarian dessert wine. Such a lovely date night and change of pace!
July 30th, 2014:
We had a good night's sleep, and then a morning visit from Ellie! This was an especially happy morning, because I knew I'd have the evening with her. I made an easy dinner of fried eggs, roasted broccoli, and seasoned hash browns. Eleanor chowed down on everything, and ate her entire egg and even started grabbing for my hash browns. We spent lots of time playing and cuddling before bedtime.
July 31st, 2014:
Another evening with my sweet Ellie!! I prepped some spicy sweet potato wedges when I got home, and while they were in the oven for the initial bake, I gave Eleanor a quick bath. She always has fun at bathtime (except for when it's time to detangle her hair.) I fried up some sweet onion hamburgers to go with the wedges, and Eleanor ate a bunch of berries, and some cheese. Kyle came over while we were getting ready for bed and kindly cleaned up my living room! I came down and we talked and had a few Newcastle Blonde Bombshell ales. Good night!
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