Treats for appetites of every size
At 12:36pm tomorrow, I will have completed my first year as a high school biology teacher. This is crazy to me. I started this blog the night before my first day of school in September, because what first year teacher doesn’t want to add additional commitments to an already overwhelming amount of work? Every week, no matter how much lesson planning I felt I needed to do, I found time to bake something and write about it.
Yesterday I had the most perfect first day of summer you can dream up. I started the day with a nice long run, did some chores around my apartment, and then biked to a farmer’s market where I met a friend (Hi, Ashley!) to shop for some local produce and eat food truck tacos. After that, we wandered around my town’s stores before heading over to our school to watch one of her students compete in a skateboarding competition. When I got home, I roasted up my vegetables for a delicious dinner. All in all, exactly what I wanted to …
Before I get into this post, I just want to say Happy Father’s Day to my amazing dad. I had grand designs to use my post this week to share one of his secret recipes, but, realistically, I shouldn’t make an entire batch of pancakes just for myself. So instead I hope he’s ok with a shout out.
My family came to visit me this weekend and we spent the time cramming the entire month of June’s festivities into two days. On Saturday, we celebrated my birthday, which is actually this coming Wednesday, and today we celebrated Father’s Day, which is actually next weekend. It was the first time we’ve all been together in awhile (maybe since Easter?), so it was awesome to get to spend time with them. Also, I consider birthdays weeklong events, despite my dad’s insistence otherwise, so really it also served as the kick-off to my birthday week.
Do not despair, my loyal followers, I’m back. I’m sorry for not giving you a sugar fix last weekend, but in all honesty I did try. I had this whole grand plan in place. I was going to post a picture like this: