Happy Friday! It's a new month next Friday which I am happy about as we are that much closer to reliably nice weather!
The book I'm reading is The Day the World Came to Town. This is a non-fiction book about Gander, Newfoundland, where all the planes that were flying from Europe to the US on 9/11, but were too far into the flight to turn back when the US airspace was closed, landed. It is a really delightful book about how this little town opened their doors and their hearts to all the people who were stranded while the air space was closed and trying to come to terms with what was happening in the US.
The high of my week was my dinner out with my good friend on Tuesday night. The restaurant we went to has small plates so we shared 4 different dishes. The food was so delicious and the conversation was even better! This was my 2nd time eating inside a restaurant in 2 years and it was delightful!
The low of my week was our early wake-ups thanks to Will's awful sleep. One morning he was up at 4:45!! He's only napping once/day at school for a max of 1.5 hours so I don't think the early wake-ups are related to him getting too much daytime sleep. So teeth might be a factor, or it's part of the adjustment to dropping to one nap? I hope and pray he starts to sleep later soon. We are so very exhausted! In the meantime, Phil and I are taking turns getting up with him, although Phil doesn't get much of a "break" Tues-Thur since I need to be in the shower around 5:45...
A recipe I made was carnitas (pulled pork) in the instant pot using a Milk Street Kitchen recipe. We are still figuring out the right # of recipes/meals to make now that I'm back in the office 3 days/week. I'm pretty sure we are going to end up freezing most of the pork, which is fine as it freezes well.
A show we are watching is The Drop Out although now that we are caught up, we have to wait until the weekly episode drops. The show is fascinating. I read Bad Blood a couple of years ago, which I highly recommend, and also listened to the podcast that this show is based upon.
For workouts I went for a delightful 4 mile run on Monday morning when it was in the 40s which felt sooo nice after doing lots of runs in the cold this winter. I also left work a bit early on Thursday to fit in a treadmill run at the office gym, I'll do a strength training workout this morning and then tomorrow I plan to run with my neighbor. We are doing a 10 mile race in 2 months so we need to start to increase our mileage. I'm thinking we'll do a 5-mile run tomorrow.
The best money spent was on dinner on Tuesday night!
My plans this weekend include nothing tonight, which is what I prefer for Friday nights! Tomorrow I am catching up with a friend I used to work with when I lived in Charlotte on Face Time and then we are having a friend over for dinner that night. Will has swimming lessons on Sunday morning and Paul and I are meeting some friends and their kids for a playdate later that morning. So a good amount of plans but all things I'm looking forward to.
Bonus Paul photo:
Phil assembled Paul's new bike over the weekend so he got to try it out on Monday after dinner. Since then it's been too cold or raining to ride it again but soon we'll have nice enough weather for post-dinner biking.
What was the high of your week? What recipe(s) did you make this week?
I really need to read that book. Have you seen the play "Come from Away"? (It's on AppleTV+ if you have that, or at least it was.) It's fabulous. I saw it here on stage on September 11, which was extra moving. I think there's a video on youtube about the play too. That whole thing fascinates me. I sure hope you all can get Will's schedule a bit more convenient! And glad you could run and also get out with a friend. That's a big deal. I guess the high of my week was seeing the toddlers last Sunday. I'm not sure I cooked much at all this week -- certainly nothing interesting!
ReplyDeleteI made my buffalo chicken gnocchi this week, which I make maybe once a month, however this time I used the cauliflower gnocchi from Whole Foods, which is shelf stable, so I'll definitely buy that again. I bought a truffle buffalo sauce from Trader Joe's around Christmas that is a little too sweet for our taste buds, but doctored it with another buffalo sauce we had in the fridge, and it all came out. I really like making the same recipe over and over (month over month, not week over week), because I never follow it to the letter, so there are always variations.
ReplyDeleteI hope the rest/sleep time levels out again. It is amazing how kiddos rollercoaster on that.
Yay Pablo gets to learn to ride a bike! That is such a fun time in childhood and parenthood. so cool!
ReplyDeleteHmmm. High of the week? That the birthday party is over?! It was a lot of fun but also after a busy week and then a 3-hour party (and now a sleepover), I'm just excited to have the event finished having gone smoothly!
ReplyDeleteNew recipe...can't think of anything, but on Monday we hosted friends we haven't seen in almost 2 years for soup and it was also such a high! Nice to reconnect with people after a long time apart.
So happy to hear you got an outside run is! And that you had dinner with your girlfriend. That sounds so nice.
ReplyDeleteThe highlight of my week is that some medical tests came back negative and a meal I cooked this week was split pea soup! So yum!
4:45! Woooo. I do not miss those days! I mean, I am up at that time, but that's by choice!
ReplyDeleteHighlights of the week - we celebrated our 20th anniversary and my older son turned 18!
4:45 wake ups are just the worst. Huge sympathies. This too shall pass but boy does it feel rough in the meantime...
ReplyDeleteJust think: In a few years, you'll look back on these posts and remember the days of such early wakeups! And you got through it! That's... the best I've got for you, lol. Those early wakeups must be brutal!
ReplyDeleteThe high of my week was getting my new sit/stand desk AND not having to put it together, lol. I hired someone off TaskRabbit to do it and for $75, he got it done in under an hour. Well worth my money!
And this week, I made Skinnytaste's Santa Fe chicken in the Crock-Pot, which was yum yum!