This past weekend was my baby boy’s fifth birthday. It was exciting and sad at the same time. I can’t believe how big he is getting. Even in the past 6 months he has changed so much and grown. I didn’t have time to make him a cake from scratch, so we had to buy one from the store. So no cake for me, which I will never do again. It was so hard to smell the icing and cake and not have something for me to eat. From now on I will make the time to make a cake.

I have found a new job. Hopefully I will be starting next week. I am hoping to be able to keep up with my blogs, but bear with me if I am a bit erratic in my posts over the next couple of weeks, while I settle into my new schedule. Which is really early because I will be working 5:30-2pm. It is early, but I like the hours because I will be home early enough to spend time with my son and get things done around the house. I will be managing an addictions treatment program and am quite excited about it. It will be a different position for me. I have worked with addictions before, but this time I will be doing more of the program development, community education and politicing.

This week I made the best broccoli ever. I sauteed garlic, red pepper flake, salt and pepper in olive oil, then I added frozen broccoli and sauteed for about 2 minutes. Then I added about a cup of vegetable broth, put the lid on and let the broccoli steam in vegetable broth for about 5 minutes. It is so absolutely delicious, you’ll never want anything else for lunch. My dh and I are definitely hooked. I will have to cook it up and put into a stainless steel thermos and take for lunch at the new job.

This will be the first time that I have worked out of the house while being vegan. We will probably be doing a lot more soups, because they are easy to pack up and take for lunch. We don’t use microwaves, which makes reheating food not really an option. So I have to bring foods that taste good luke warm or pack easily into a thermos. Lifes about to get busy, but I enjoy being busy. So it will be good. I am still waiting for my dh to upload pics for me of food that we took last week. Hopefully I will have them for tomorrow.