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This. I woke up at 5 am. After sleeping 12 hours. I was absolute toast last night. End of the school year is a strange creature. Since I was up so early, but not quite early enough to catch my CrossFit class, I dusted off an older WOD from January and did it at home. …

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A few years ago, I wrote a post talking about the current “Dirty Dozen” which is the top 12 fruits and vegetables with the most pesticide residue. A lot of people have an interest in choosing pesticide-free organic foods, but cannot afford to switch to 100% organic or they do not have an organic source …

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I’m up early because I’m way too excited about things going on lately. I had a great weekend overall and I have one more full week of teaching left before a CRAZY summer. What’s on my mind this morning? 1. Running. I had half a race this weekend. Thanks to a severe gluten reaction, I …

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With summer in full swing and vacation plans finalized, all that is left to do is enjoy the last days of school and sip some tea on the back porch. But I didn’t want ordinary iced tea. What I was really craving was icy punch like what we serve at showers, parties, and weddings. In …

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If I could name a favorite dish that I love lately, it would be ground beef stir fry. On a weekend during your food prep time, heat a big pan. Grab some ground beef (or pork or whatever). Add some garlic. Brown a HUGE batch of it. Then on busy weeknights, throw some veggies in …

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Tonight was our Kindergarten awards night. We handed out certificates to students in crispy dresses, pleated pants (or the one pair of pants that still fit) and too-tight shoes, and washed hair and faces. They sang some of their favorite songs like this.   and of course, no class program is complete without ALL the …

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What happens when I’m tired but I’m hungry and yet I have a metric ton of salad greens from the market in my fridge? This. Breakfast over greens. I made this a few weeks ago and decided this was a good time to make it again. I once thought that only “salad vegetables” could go …

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I had another half day planning meeting, this time for Kindergarten to plan stuff for next year. It’s a good thing we were close to bathrooms. Taking a class through a donut factory wasn’t a good idea. I didn’t sleep much last night since the gluten was tearing out my stomach lining all night. But …

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This is going to be a very eventful week. No time for dilly-dallying unless you count sitting in a room trying to conjure up money from non-existent sources. Half-day work meeting to create a new budget for school funds.   Yeah, we are broke. But a half day meeting means only one thing to teachers. …

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  I cooked mine and ate them! What are bolted vegetables? When vegetable plants “bolt”, that means they focus all energy into reproducing. They very quickly produce stalks of flowers and seeds and stop focusing on producing leaves and the vegetable. What causes bolting? Hot soil. When the air temperatures settle into the heat of …

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