Easter Weekend in Pictures

 

Easter already feels like a distant memory at this point, save for those remnants of candy still lingering around and haunting me. Last night I ceremoniously ate my annual Reese's peanut butter egg and it was just as good as I remember it being. Though the holiday is passed and we are now full-swing into Spring, I still wanted to recap our Easter weekend. As the years go by, I really love having a little journal of holidays and special weekends. And so today I'm recapping our 2015 Easter celebration in pictures! We spent Saturday celebrating with my family at my aunt's house, and Sunday with Shaun's family at their house. Penelope woke up with a fever on Sunday morning so we unfortunately skipped church, but still enjoyed the rest of our Easter Sunday!

 

 

 

 

Happy Friday!

 

We've had a rough week 'round these parts. Penelope woke up on Easter Sunday with a fever and a cold that has continued to linger throughout the week. I can't remember a time when I needed Friday to be here more than today. Tomorrow, we are looking at a summer daycamp for P and then heading out for date night. Shaun surprised me with tickets to see Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which I'd been talking about for months and months, and I've been listening to the soundtrack on loop all week. We'll also be stopping for drinks and dinner and I'm just really ready for a fun night out after a trying week! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Meanwhile, here's some links to keep you distracted today:

these oven-baked pancakes are going to change my life!

4 carby uses for cauliflower

dying over these PMS ice cream flavors

172 thoughts while watching outlander; my mom and I are currently OBSESSED with this show & book series!

can this be real? another girl with the dragon tattoo book in the works!

tips to outsmart office diet sabotage.  suffer from this daily.

all the things about what you'll miss in new jersey

game of thrones, season 5 starts on sunday! will you be watching?

i'm a car safety lunatic so sharing these driving safety tips from a trauma surgeon

i do believe that quality trumps quantity when it comes to spending time with P, but that doesn't make being away from her any easier

i'm in jersey city, but these reasons to raise your kids in new york city still ring true for me

What I Ate: Fridge Clean Out Edition

It's Wednesday again and that means it's time for another edition of What I Ate! Thanks to Jenn @ Peas & Crayons for hosting the link up!

This week, I was coming off of the holiday weekend high where I just ate everything in sight. I didn't really have a chance to meal plan or prep for the week and so I ended up ordering groceries to be delivered for last night. So with a semi-empty fridge, I made do what what I had on hand and ultimately, it all worked out, though it was not always pleasant. Let's get down to it!

breakfast: dyed easter eggs that i'm trying to use up before they are too far past their prime. these almost were. since the eggs left a lot to be desired, I didn't eat all of it and felt hungry after brek. 

snack: 1 string cheese + 1 babybel cheese

 

lunch: 2 turkey burgers + some green beans. this was leftover from last night's dinner {where i also snapped this photo}. As Shaun noted, it looks like a Picasso smiley face.

snack: after lunch i still felt sooooo hungry, so i made a small bowl of oat bran, microwaved with skim milk & sweetener until thick & creamy.

after my snack, I wandered into the office kitchen to see what was happening there and tried to resist the quite random assortment of communal goodies. this is a pretty accurate depiction of our kitchen counter on any given day, and I swear, you can't make this stuff up.

I resisted a spoonful of pb & avocado matzos, and instead found an about-to-expire yogurt in the office fridge that I had left there probably a long time ago. One more day til expiration, though, so score!

dinner: cauliflower pizza, a serious new favorite in the repetoire! I've been using this recipe with a few modifications and it's been awesome.

I totally overdid it with the amount of pizza that I ate, so I was actually too full for my Dukan galette. I know, it's crazy, that NEVER happens! I did have a spoonful of whipped cream which covered my sweet craving for the night.

Overall, this day of eating was a good reminder as to why I need to be fully stocked with groceries. I felt like I was scrounging for food all day and never really felt satisfied, probably because I didn't have any of the foods that I would typically eat. I felt ill-prepared to stay on course and that's just never a good thing. Lesson learned for sure!

What have you been eating lately?