Brown Rice Porridge

Mmmm...I really should've taken a photo of this yummy breakfast dish. I was at a bookstore the other day and happened upon the SQRL cookbook. One recipe that caught my eye was their Brown Rice Porridge. Yum. I did not buy the cookbook but jumped online this morning to find a comparable recipe. The Interwebs is so good like that - you can put in "SQRL brown rice porridge" and it will pull up either that exact thing or something like it - like this one is the one I used. Or like when I entered "In and Out special sauce" and recipe totally comes up. So easy!

Full body gua sha

I just did a full body gua sha and it felt great! A while ago, I attended a wellness panel hosted by Jenni Kayne. The panelists were singing the praises of body brushing aka dry brushing for detox. Truly, they were all saying if there's one thing we should all be doing, it's dry brushing.

The Art of Monotasking

Yes, monotasking, focusing on one task versus multitasking. And it truly is an art.  You mommies know well enough how to multitask. We do it all the time. In fact, I am multitasking right now. I am eating my lunch at typing up this post. Prior to jumping into this post, I checked my emails really quickly since I just finished monotasking so I felt like I needed to catch up on things before jumping into anything else.

Being Vegetarian

The fams and I went vegetarian in July. I think I posted about that. But, truthfully, we had been heading that direction anyway. Personally, I was really only eating meat that we purchased from small farmers and I knew they weren't torturing the animals. So essentially not eating meat out.

Parting is such sweet sorrow...

Going through the piles of "stuff" I have in my office. So much stuff that the babes has drawn/created for me in her creative times. It's so hard to part with because all of it is so sweet. Yet, if we keep it all, we would be considered hoarders, right? Too much stuff.
I am trying really hard to just toss into the trash. Maybe I should definitely take a photo with Artkive before tossing. Whoops, so much for this morning's cleaning spree.
I will do so for next time.

Conversations with the babe

Me, as we are folding laundry: Baby, I told you not to throw your socks into the laundry all bunched up! They don't get clean and they don't dry.

Baby: Okay. Okay.

Me: Don't say "okay." You always say "okay" and you don't do it.

Baby: Sorry.

Me: Don't say "sorry".

Baby, laughing: Okay, then what should I say? Caramel?

Hahha! I have the best kid.

Clean eats

Growing up, I can't say I had the best eating habits. A product of the American diet for sure, I was eating sugar ladened cereals (luckily I actually hated milk - esp non-fat, must've been my body's early intuition), LOTS of candy, loved McDonald's..etc.