Continual State of Becoming

A while ago I wrote about a typical day for me and Dylan. I thought I'd do that again since he's changed so much since then. We usually wake up between 6:00 and 6:30. It takes me a couple minutes to accept that he is in fact awake for good (every morning I pray that he'll go back to sleep for an hour but he never does). After a quick diaper change we go downstairs and I prepare a cup of milk for him. Dylan looooves his milk in the morning, we'll go into the living room and watch some Disney cartoons, Handy Manny is his current favorite, while he drinks his milk in his own personal chair. Sometimes though he'll cuddle up with me on the couch while he drinks his milk. After he finishes his milk he'll play with his toys and crawl around for a little while. Usually around 7:30 his about ready for breakfast which typically consists of yogurt and a banana or banana bread or Kix. From time to time I switch it up by making pancakes, and sometimes Dylan will have...

I recipe I altered from another one... it's REALLY good. I sent this to my sister Sarah yesterday so she could cook it and she liked it too. She made a few changes, which I've noted. For the Chicken: Chicken cutlets (matt and I each ate 3 of the thin slices) flour for dredging the chicken, I added salt and pepper to the flour olive oil to cook the chicken in Sauce: -about 1/2 cup of white wine -juice from 1/2 lemon -chicken stock (as much as it takes to make enough sauce) - 2 or 3 cloves of garlic -2 cans of (drained) artichokes, not marinated (I used 2 of the small jars of artichokes and we had a few leftover) Steps: 1. Dredge chicken in flour 2. Cook chicken in olive oil over high heat, about 2-3 minutes on each side (or until done, I never really time things). They should get nice and golden brown 3. Remove chicken from pan, reduce heat to medium 4. Add garlic 5. Deglaze pan with wine, add chicken stock, lemon juice (Sarah let the sauce reduce a little and added some ...

Last post a I talked a little bit about how I started running. Well, this weekend I completed the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure and I did waaay better than my initial goal! I trained for a little less than a month (after not running since high school), the first 2 1/2 weeks was slow going. But about halfway through my training things started to click and I went from running 15 minutes nonstop one day, to 30 minutes the next, to 54 minutes less than a week later! And I think I could have kept running that day, but I knew that if I didn't hit the hour mark that run, I'd be more motivated it to it again and run for a full hour. In the past week I think I ran about 14 miles total, which is something I NEVER thought I'd do. After all, I'm certainly no runner. The race was good though. Fortunately it wasn't too hot or sunny out (which really helped), and I think running with 10,000 other people helped me push myself a little harder than I would have otherwise. M...