Category: News + Family Updates (Page 12 of 25)

Our Airplane Food

June 9, 2012 / Lindsey / 9 Comments

Yay, we’re headed out pretty soon for Hawaii! We like taking our own food, so this is what we’ve got for the 2 hours at the airport plus the 7 1/2 hour flight:

Salads (all homegrown – lettuce, chives, oregano, dill, parsley)

Grapes

Watermelon, pears, and peaches

Raspberries

Halved lemons to squeeze onto the salads

Larabars

Homemade concord grape fruit leather

Cashews

Pepperjack cheese slices

Wasa crackers

Slices of sprouted grain bread

Whole Wheat Gingerbread muffin

Some little sweet treats

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I love eating my own food on the plane and it feels good to be taking all this good stuff. Plus we can re-use the containers while we’re travelling too — for picnics or whatever… and then fill them back up with tropical Hawaiian goodness to eat on the plane ride back. (Or with sea shells, as the case may turn out to be…)

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Go slowly & mind that knife

June 8, 2012 / Lindsey / 1 Comment

Oh goodness, the universe does have jarring ways of bringing us back down to earth sometimes, doesn’t it! I’ve been scurrying around this past week feverishly pounding out one thing after another from the bottomless bucket of to-dos, in preparation to leave for 3 weeks. And so while innocently chopping onions for salads on Wednesday morning, my attention must not have been focused enough in the here-and-now — so the knife fixed that for me by slicing the edge off my finger and part of my nail. Thoughtful, yes?

Man it hurt; fingers have a lot of nerve endings. (But it could easily have been so much worse!)

Let us all remember to go slowly and mind that knife.

But now two days later, it’s already so much better! I’m quite amazed; it’s nice to observe my body in action, regenerating and healing itself so naturally and effortlessly.

I want to post some recent garden pictures for you, so I will hopefully do that tonight. And then we’re off tomorrow on vacation! It is coming at such a perfect time. We can’t wait!! I’m not sure if I’ll be posting stuff while on our trip… maybe, maybe not, we’ll see.

I hope you all have a really wonderful couple weeks, if I don’t connect with you until we get back!

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This Memorial Day Weekend

May 28, 2012 / Lindsey / 2 Comments

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Free Shipping at Tropical Traditions! (Thru Monday May 14th)

May 13, 2012 / Lindsey / 0 Comments

It’s Free Shipping time again at one of my very favorite companies, Tropical Traditions! I love free shipping days. You save about $10-15 off your order, so it’s a good time to stock up, or try them out if you haven’t before. I really love this company’s products, and use them daily. Now through Midnight EDT on Monday May 14th, they’re offering free ground-only shipping when you enter coupon code 14512 at checkout.

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Click here to view my favorite products at Tropical Traditions.

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If you’re a new customer and have never bought from them before, you can also get this Virgin Coconut Oil book, with information & recipes, for free (any time, not just today) by entering my User ID, which is 6032410. When you’re going through the checkout process and you’ve added your shipping address and phone number, you will see the question “How did you hear of us?” Just choose “Referred by a friend” and then a new “User ID” field will appear below that where you can enter my User ID. (See screen shot below.)

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Peaches YAY!!

May 3, 2012 / Lindsey / 16 Comments

Remember I was telling you how excited I was that my own three-year-old grown-from-seed peach tree had ONE blossom on it? These photos were taken March 25th: