Week in Review

After her big theatre week, capped off by not sleeping much the night before the theater festival, Cora got sick. So, she missed out on helping at a wedding in L.A. with me and Violet. 

We were in a cool part of L.A., so we took advantage after Melanie released us. We went to the Grove shopping center and the adjacent L.A. Farmer's Market, a historic gathering of international cuisines and foods. We ended up getting empanadas, which are similar to pasties. We then hunted for boba, which took us to the Beverly Center mall. Then, finally, home. It was fun having a city adventure with Vi. 

On Sunday, we had a home day after church, and I tidied up and baked bread and oatmeal cake. 

Yes, I'm back to making oatmeal cake again, my old standby healthy breakfast I've been making since Cora was a baby. It will be a good, filling food for Stace at work, as we dive headlong into a new eating/lifestyle plan for him. It's not that he's unhealthy, but he had some bloodwork that caused his functional medicine doctor recommend some changes. We read through all this paperwork Sunday afternoon. 

Violet and I took a walk at the Iron Horse Bridge trail, with the Santa Clara River flowing nicely.

We've had a second rainy year in a row! 

Also, Vi went to the orthodontist and learned that she can be DONE with braces forever! We weren't sure if they'd recommend a second phase, but she is good to go. Very exciting. She had a mold made of her mouth to create a new invisalign-style retainer, like Cora and I have.

Vi and I have also been doing some shopping this week. The store Loft keeps periodically emailing me codes for $20 off, so we went in a couple of times this week and Vi ended up getting some stylish black pants.

I was cleaning out the freezer and found these sad hamburger buns. Winston thought they were worth a try, though.

Yep, just a normal cat, doing normal cat things, like eating frozen hamburger buns.

Don't you get between Winston and his bun!

Both cats will completely disappear under the dishwasher.

And also, I came home from morning school dropoffs to find SOMEONE had wanted to try the oatmeal cake.