{"id":264,"date":"2006-04-17T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T20:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2006-04-17T13:33:57","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T21:33:57","slug":"easter-a-la-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Easter a la Thanksgiving&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;meaning, that there was SO much food, SO much, at my family&#8217;s Easter spread, <strike>we<\/strike> Sylvain had to skip dinner. I, of course, just can&#8217;t help it, I&#8217;m eating for two, non? \ud83d\ude42 In addition to the honey baked ham, there was an &#8220;egg shaped&#8221; meatloaf, curry-chutney chicken salad, sausage-egg casserole, baby artichoke risotto, chicken katsu, spinach salad, pita chips and hummus and for dessert: mango cake, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/food\/recipes\/recipe\/0,,FOOD_9936_27413,00.html\">krispy kreme bread pudding<\/a> (yum! without the rum in the rum sauce), and homemade strawberry ice cream&#8230;and whatever chocolate treats were in everyone&#8217;s easter &#8220;basket&#8221;. (Feel stuffed yet?) Get togethers like these I am very thankful for our dishwasher&#8230;and tupperware. (We had run out of ziploc bags &#8211; gasp!)<\/p>\n<p><b>More than halfway there&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Not by a lot, but we&#8217;re past the halfway mark. Friday was my latest prenatal check-up and everything is going well. Heard peanut&#8217;s heartbeat, and Dr. G even heard peanut move &#8211; yup, still no feeling on my part. Like, I have said, it&#8217;s going to have to be super obvious for me to distinguish peanut&#8217;s movements. The pains in my back aren&#8217;t what I thought it was&#8230;I&#8217;ve already got sciatica issues. It&#8217;s quite debilitating: it&#8217;s hurts to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie down even&#8230;guess I need to increase the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000BYNMH\/103-8446992-3185422?v=glance&#038;n=130\">yoga<\/a> sessions. Also, I&#8217;ve noticed that my ankles are chubby. Not to the point of cankles, but they&#8217;re not as skinny as they used to be. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p><b>Great Friday<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;was a holiday for me. So after our prenatal appointment, S &#038; I met my mom at the bank to have my name changed on the safe deposit box, then we stopped briefly for coffee and pastries at Peet&#8217;s. We took my mom back to work, then S &#038; I drove downtown, picked up Niki&#8217;s wedding dress, ran a few errands at Sur La Table and <a href=\"http:\/\/\">Diptyque<\/a> and headed back home. <\/p>\n<p>Since the fields are still muddy, I took Lucie to the basketball courts for some ball time. (S actually did work Friday.) There, we ran into an old schoolmate of Lucie&#8217;s&#8230;a black lab, named Jackpot. They were in the same puppy kindergarten class years ago and now we come to find out that they&#8217;re in the neighborhood too!<\/p>\n<p>After lunch, S &#038; I met with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenwhitney.com\/\">architect<\/a> to discuss the kitchen remodel, a project which has since been postponed. Then I went to get a mani\/pedi and grocery shop for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As S <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plutinosoft.com\/blog\/?p=104\">mentioned<\/a>, we saw a great movie Friday night with Amanda and Nate, ate dinner and then ventured to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchellsicecream.com\/html\/welcome.htm\">Mitchell&#8217;s<\/a> for some ice cream (double yum!).<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was more errands (including a fabulous facial in the Castro), baking (Lemon Meringue tart is now my Everest that I WILL conquer one of these days), prepping for Sunday (which included a warm Krispy Kreme donut), and picking up a F-R-E-E pack n&#8217; play from my cousin (who says I&#8217;m huge, by the way! &#8211; it must run in the family, because she was, ahem &#8220;carrying large&#8221; as well when she was pregnant).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;meaning, that there was SO much food, SO much, at my family&#8217;s Easter spread, we Sylvain had to skip dinner. 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