April 2011

It’s already the 27th of April….wait, what?!? April’s gone!  We had exactly 5 rain-free days here in April, not to mention we’re under a tornado watch tonight.  Y’know, if the old adage “April showers bring May flowers” holds true, we’re in for the world’s most beautiful May on record!  This has been the rainiest Spring

On Easter Sunday, I was post-call, so I didn’t get to go to church.  We do have friends who live not too far away who invited us to their family’s Easter dinner, and we gladly accepted.  It’s so nice to have a surrogate family for the holidays, especially since both of our families live so

Today is Earth Day, and I want to make an Earth Day Cake…but, I ended up just making a Coconut Cake for Easter Sunday (since I’m on call tomorrow…boo…).  I’m gonna post about that cake on Sunday, after we taste it!  Sadly, it was icky and rainy all day today, so I couldn’t even go

I swear, sometimes it feels like I never see Chris anymore!  We are both working these crazy hours, and we’ll see each other for an hour at night (if one of us isn’t on call) before we both crash out.  I miss him!  It’s hard to put time & effort into our marriage when we

Yay!!! We joined a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) group today!!!  My mom was actually the inspiration- they joined a CSA in Colorado a couple of years ago, and it was this magical thing where they had veggies straight from the farm delivered weekly!  We were visiting one fall, and my hubby and I went with

This month, I am on Endocrinology at work, where I have seen tons of diabetics, Metabolic Syndrome patients (patients with something of a quad-fecta: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and diabetes), and obese patients.  I have been absolutely shocked at some of the diet recommendations!  My attending promotes an Atkin’s-style diet (low carb, high

These recipes literally will make the top 10 recipes of this SD year!  They are both so flavorful & easy.  There’s quite a bit of prep work in the beginning, but then you stick them in the oven & forget about it for a couple of hours…and…Viola!  You have an oustanding dinner ready!  Both recipes

I have to play catch up with the blog!!! It’s been such a crazy couple of days- we just got back from our Washington D.C. trip, which was so much fun!  It was actually much colder than we expected (so I froze!), and the cherry blossoms were “past their prime,” but I still thought it

Finished with the board exam step 3!  No more exams- I’m a fully licensed physician, provided that I passed (fingers crossed- won’t find out for 6-8 weeks!!  The agony!!)!  And I can finally get back to my life (outside of medicine)- reading interesting articles, exercising, painting, scrapbooking, etc.  Chris & I are at his parents’

As long as Chris & I have been together, he has loved salty things and I have loved sweet things.  To a fault, in both of our cases.  He loves french fries to the point of getting pancreatitis (!), and I love ice cream and cupcakes so much that I would happily eat that for