So he will be 2 months old on Friday. That is just about right for my hormones to be a mess. James has been very supportive and understanding. Sometimes it is hard to know if I am feeling stressed because of the new move, feeling trapped in the house, lack of cooking equipment or if I can really blame it on the hormones. Yesterday the boys and I walked to the grocery store about 5 blocks away. For a small tip they will help you walk back to your house with your shopping cart. It was about a 20 min walk and Teac did great. He walked all the way there without complaining and then rode in the cart back.

Ok so things are quite expensive here. You can buy most anything from pickled palm hearts to balsalmic vinegar. I even saw canned lichi fruit that they grow in China. Baking soda on the other hand.... not so easy to find. I'm sure someone got a good laugh of me following the store manager all over the place as I tried to explain to him what baking soda was, some of its uses (hoping that they just carried it in a different section), and trying in my broken spanish to help him understand.... just ending up back where I started- at the spices section with no soda. Baking in general is just going to have to wait until my spices and pans arrive in a week or two.

Oh and did I mention I have a hard time with beans. I like black beans... so does my family.... I do well at soaking them over night, starting them on a low simmer in the morning, it's just the rest of the process that seems to overcome my attention span. Last week I boiled them over spilling blackish-purple juice all down the back of the stove and into the cupboard, not to mention burning it on the burner. Today I just boiled them dry until they burned... I thought I smelled something.... so I guess we'll start over and try again.