Cinnamondee

Perfect Day

I had the sweetest bestest Mothers Day.  Acai bowl breakfast with a skinny mocha and gift openings - I love those ceramic homemade hand and letter plaques!

Then hiking up Tantalus with the kids.  It was so beautiful. 

 

 

This was the lookout before the hike.

After that Round Table Pizza in Waikiki with beers on tap.  No sir, this was NOT a low carb day by any means.  Especially since after that was Japanese Beard Papa Cream Puffs. 

Bring it.

Soccer and football in the park and a picnic for dinner. 

Perfect.

A life without love is like a year without summer.

 

With summer finally coming to an end, some fun times -

Well loved, rotated toys (so they dont get tired of them easily)

 

Daddy & kid boxcar racing (no gas required -yay!) 

Still keeping with the mostly 'no shopping' pledge' except for a couple of returns for gifts from others for my kids, and school supply (ugh, that i could so do without).  It makes life so simple not to have to think about buying "things' all the time.  What did i really need anyway?

We've had such a great easygoing summer...be back soon!

"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."

                            -Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

Flying High

Some pics (with my blurry camera phone) while out flying kites at the park this past weekend-

it wasnt crazy windy, but it was a wonderful, happy day.

Greatful today for...

-my son who found out this morning that plastic lids are also frisbees

-my daughter who decided even though my biscuits are not as good as the one that comes out of the can that 'pops', that I still make good breakfasts because of the love I put into them

-my husband, although a bit grouchy at tax time, recognizes that fact and apologizes with bear hugs

- a new day, and new possibilities....

Happy Earth Day

Hope everyone had a Happy Earth Day.  Here, we just did some food shopping at the Farmers Market and spent a relaxing day at home...not exciting, but simple and enjoyable - I like days like that the best.  Baking muffins, puttering around the house and a game or two of Candyland. 

I've been trying not to focus on all the bad enviromental issues of today. Besides the obvious Global Warming deal, but also the coal fire plants that are going up all over China, and the amount of overfishing in the sea.  These are issues that have been on my mind alot recently.  If you would like to read about those issues, though, here are some links:

Worldwatch Institute video

Pollution From Chinese Coal Casts a Global Shadow

At first, I thought, hopefully it will not bother anyone as much as it bothers me.  But actually, I hope it does.  That it might make a difference to someone else, and that person tells someone else to think about it.  And so on.  These are issues that need to be addressed and something drastic needs to change very soon.  For the health of our planet, and for future generations. 

Okay, enough of my ranting and raving.  As exciting as my day sounds, I did not take any pictures today.  And because I don't want a pictureless post, and wanting to move on to a lighter, absolutely different note altogther, here are some fun Tinkertoying pics from the other night (hence the bad lighting in the pictures).

Hope you did Mother Earth some justice today, or at least some thoughful reflection, goodness knows she needs it...

veggie tales

C-boy went to a family farm today...

its literally all fun and games until he's forced to eat his veggies.

Until the papayas ripen, its off to work.  Not sure what kind of work he thinks he's going to, but wherever there is a ramp and a bat needed he'll be the one to call. 

And on the homefront, W had a trip to pack for so he had laundry duty...

so even in a drizzle today, he hung the towels... he even was almost late for his plane as he did all his errands by bike, rain and all.  You go green boy!

Trashy Talk

Some people might find this totally disgusting but you know we all have one in the kitchen.

The reason I took a picture is that I am oddly proud of myself and my clan as we have made this much in a week and a half!  Okay, don't all jump up and clap at once.  But coming from a 4 person and one dog family that used to make this much in a couple days I am very happy with it, so I will jump up and down by myself.  Anyway, in case anyone cares we did this by -

a) taking us off this list

b) subscribing to Greendimes

c) calling off all the catalogs using the 800 number given on the back

d) buying much more veggies (reusing over and over the produce bags), and making most of our snacks than processed packaged foods

e) composting - we always did that but I made sure ALL of our veggie scraps went into the bin

f) taking our own plastic tupperware when we eat out, avoiding those styrofoam containers

In addition to recycling the rest, this has made a huge and obvious reduction in the amount of trash we create.  Who'd have thunk?

Well, in things of less trashy nature, theres some spring happening in the yard.   

I posted a while back in my old blog about how pathetic our yard was...yuck Now its finally coming together, but we're not really there yet, so I'll only give some glimpses until its really done.

Hooray!  We are no longer the sore thumb yard in the neighborhood.  We are, however, the weirdos that take pictures of their trash in the garage. 

Keepin' it clean

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. (B.K.S Iyengar)

Been trying ever so hard to eat well and exercise often.  Whew.  So this weekend was all about exercise, nutrition and some fun with the kiddos.  What a boring post...  Anyway, my list of things we've done and things to do for the week...

1. made a big stash of healthy crunchy granola via molly katzen recipe.

2. yoga - working with weights this past week pulled something in my left booty muscle - yikes.  So hopefully a few more yoga workouts will help.  C-girl enjoys either doing it with me, criticizing the fact that mommies' leg is not the reaching the same height as the lady on the t.v. or just plain laughing at my poses.   At least I'm entertaining.

3. hoping that we will be doing some healthy baking, got a bit lax in here. 

4. back to eating some fish again instead of totally vegetarian, as W is done with a weird training regimen (don't ask), excited with this - how boring am I?

5. just finished watching 'go further', woody harrelson documentary, very interesting and inspiring.  did not, however, know there was a bit of swearing.  i was not sure if my daughter caught it or didn't hear it, so I didn't know whether to bring attention to it or not.  I think I made a small comment on how there was a bad word, but I don't even know if she heard me.  she is, now though, very opposed to corndogs.  which is a very good thing at least.

have a healthy week!

grateful

So grateful for many things... first and most important the love of  my family ...

and little things that make life special...

It is the sweet, simple things of life
which are the real ones after all.
-   Laura IngallsWilder