I made this for dinner tonight; I got the recipe from Cooking Light and it was great and easy.
Spread 2 tablespoons of hummus on a whole wheat wrap. Put about 1/2 cup of shredded chicken breast on top of that. Put a few strips of roasted red peppers on top of that. Put about 2 tablespoons of creamy Caesar dressing on top of that and then put a little bit of lettuce on top of that. Roll it up and eat it. Yum!
This was a good book. It was about how quickly your life can change. The character is a SAHM and has been for 17 years and then her estranged father gets injured and ends up living with her and her family and her mom. It is a feel good tale of family and the sacrifices that family members often make for each other.
My friend’s son got a set of Wedgits for his birthday. I had never seen them before, but they are so cool. They are so simple that they are neat. The box says that they are for people ages 2-102 and I believe it. You can’t just let them set there. You have to play with them. Go to wedgits.com to see them.
I had to share this because I think it is so cute. My grandma is 87 years old and is definitely what you would call a farm girl. She was raised on a farm and she raised her kids on a farm. The woman enjoys eating liver and doesn’t squirm at the thought of eating cow’s tongue for goodness sake. So, anyways, I was talking to her today and she said that my dad got her some avocados because he got a bunch that were particularly yummy and he thought he would share some with her. Well, she has never had an avocado before but she thought she would give it a try. She hated them!! She said there has never been anything that has passed her lips before ever in her entire life that was so bad that she had to spit it out. She was telling my aunt about this and my aunt informed her that there is a dip you can eat with chips that is made out of avocados. I didn’t have the heart to explain to her that the dip has a name and nearly eveyone in both North and South America knows that it is called guacamole. :) She doesn’t get out much.
Can you tell I have been reading a lot lately?  This was another beach read. This is a fictional story about a woman in L.A. who has just had her first baby and is really struggling with her new role. Breastfeeding is not working like she thought it would, her C-section scar is atrocious, her hormones are in full rage and she is basically an overall mess. One thing I have noticed is that there seems to be a lot of books out like this lately. There is even another book out there with a similar plot that has the exact same title as this book. This author has written another fictional book about being pregnant called Notes from the Underbelly. Again, there seem to be a lot of books out there that are written about this topic. Now that Oprah has America reading there is an audience for all of these stories geared towards women…just a theory. 🙂
You need to checkout librarything.com. It is so cool! It keeps track of the books you are reading and can tell you what other people are reading who have also read the books you have read. You can also add it to your blog so others can see what you are reading as well. It also can recommend other books based on the genre/topics of the books you are reading. One catch, however, is that ten people have to have read the book you have read for it to give you any social data on that book. That can happen quickly, though, last week a book I read had only been read by six people at librarything and a few days later it was up to ten.
I just finished reading this book and it was sooo good. The narrator is a high school junior whose family has just been moved from Indiana to Mississippi in the early 1970’s. His new high school has been newly desegregated and his new best friend has a lot of secrets. This story is funny in parts and shocking in others, but either way you want to keep reading it because you want to find out what is going to happen next.
Liam can be the king of procrastination if he is trying to get out of doing something, like going to bed. So tonight he was s-l-o-w-l-y making his way towards the stairs to go to bed and I was beginning to lose patience with him when he says, “But Mom, I’m trying to be a sloth!” How can you argue with that?
Yesterday we had a heat index of 108; today it is 74!
I didn’t realize this was an Oprah book until I was about halfway through. I should have known though because the book is so depressing. The main character is a woman who is Catholic and is married to a man that treats her horribly. To make matters even worse they live with his elderly parents who treat her like a slave and either ignore or insult her children for sport. I think the next book I read is going to need to be a little more uplifting.