The Pan that Can

It’s Girl Scout Cookie season!

2019-01-28T22:17:00.001-08:00

Please visit Char’s cookie website to order your Girl Scout cookies. This is the last year for Savannah Smiles.

https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/charlotte178658

Bruce Lee costume

2016-09-19T20:12:00.004-07:00

I miss when I could choose his costume. Last year was a dinosaur. This year, he wants me to make another dinosaur. Will we ever top the Bruce Lee costume with glow in the dark nunchucks?

Cut water bottle to make giant bubbles

2015-01-17T15:27:00.001-08:00

Dish soap, hydrogen peroxide and baking soda will get out food stains

2015-01-17T15:26:00.001-08:00

New iPad case from my little brother! He didn't even know that I was looking for one. Little brother's are the best :)

2014-03-24T20:48:00.001-07:00

Thank goodness for wireless

2014-02-11T15:27:00.001-08:00

My toddler and 1 yo fell asleep in the car on the way home from the Zoo today. The toddler has not napped in days. I carried her upstairs. The baby is sleeping in his carseat. I'm leaving him there because he wakes up when transferred to bed and I don't want to stick him in the carrier. He naps in the carrier everyday. I'm sitting in the car next to him with the baby monitor since I can't hear the kids room from the garage and can't hear the garage from anywhere in the house.

The big clothing purge begins...

2014-01-22T21:32:00.000-08:00

Slowly but surely, purged 14 items today.

Things your mother should have told you list

2013-09-20T23:28:00.001-07:00

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Target - Madison Hilldale

2013-09-19T22:00:00.000-07:00

Harvest time!

2013-08-31T01:24:00.001-07:00

There's so much to learn about gardening. How and when to plant, how to make your plant grow, how to manage pests. Even when to pick the fruits of one's labor is tricky. Here it goes! These have just a teeny tiny bit of green and still have their little stems. Hope the taste great!

Charlotte brought a flower home for me today

2013-08-24T19:15:00.001-07:00

I'm hoping these strawberries will turn out!

2013-07-18T23:59:00.001-07:00

The peas are ready. I hope we can keep up with eating them.

2013-07-18T23:58:00.000-07:00

These were the easiest and most successful plant I've grown in the backyard.

I'm so excited about my tomatoes. I hope they ripen ok.

2013-07-18T23:52:00.001-07:00

First hot date with my friend Carrie in at least six years

2013-07-13T23:42:00.000-07:00

The first big pea harvest of the summer

2013-07-06T12:22:00.000-07:00

Fourth of July in the Presidio

2013-07-04T14:02:00.000-07:00

Daniel and Charlotte blowing bubbles while I nurse Nicholas

How to Darn a Sock | The Art of Doing Stuff

2013-07-04T00:37:00.001-07:00

I just darned a sock using this tutorial. It feels like it'll hold up.

Learning about lettuce

2013-06-09T14:56:00.001-07:00

We have had an explosion of lettuce this year. We can hardly keep up with eating it. Gotta start giving it away. These heads are from some plants we got a year ago at the framers market at the ferry building. They seem to be a lot hardier than the plants I grow from seeds. Farmers market plants may be the way to go!

We are at the Academy of Sciences

2013-05-14T17:31:00.001-07:00

Cuddle time

2013-05-08T21:14:00.001-07:00

Tonight, I realized just how special it is to cuddle with my baby. Between trying to put baby down for nap and soothe achy tummies and gas, it's hard to remember that the time I'm spending holding him is so brief. My darling Charlotte is only two and a half and most of the time wants her independence. When I try to give her a good cuddle, she responds with a giggle, a "no mama" and pushes me away. Nicholas is a pretty squirmy baby so when he is awake and happy, he mostly wants to face forward and look at what's ahead. Tonight, he was passed out from a big meal and fell asleep all floppy so I held him and nuzzled him and gave him some extra squeezes before putting him down. Normally, I'd be praying that he stays down, but right now, I kinda hope that big gulp of air he swallowed wakes him up so that I can give him another nuzzle.

Nicholas moves around nonstop in my arms, so I'm not sure how long I will get to hold him tight. Charlotte was a pretty stationary baby so I don't think she started stiffening up to drop out of my arms until at least two. Maybe a couple of months after she turned two. Babies aren't really solid enough to give them a good squeeze until about three months. So we get from about three months old until about twenty five, twenty six months to really cuddle with each of our babies? That is so short in the big picture of life. Makes me sad and I will definitely be nostalgic later. So I have already missed out on cuddling Charlotte with this realization. I will have to take full advantage of my time left with Nicholas.

Saturday mornings

2013-05-04T11:18:00.001-07:00

My big girl is 2.5 and my baby boy is almost four months. After baby nurses at 6 am, I head out for my few hours of me time for the week. I got to the farmers market to pick up some fruit, Home Depot to browse (since its the only store open at 7am), sit in the parking lot for a little bit to admire the view of the south San Francisco hills, then to target at eight to run some errands and browsing :) then back home by eight thirty in case baby gets hungry. Sometimes home at nine thirty if I have milk prepped and for char's swim class.

My attempt at making three cup chicken with Basil

2013-04-22T01:25:00.001-07:00

My attempt to make oyster sauce asparagus. Seems pretty easy.

2013-04-17T15:33:00.001-07:00

Boil asparagus whole for seven minutes. Remove from water. Chop into smaller pieces and drizzle oyster sauce on top.

Our first year of cherry blossoms!

2013-04-16T16:58:00.000-07:00