Coconut Macaroons

3 cups shredded coconut
1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
3/4 cups sugar
3 egg whites
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, in pieces
Make sure the chocolate is dairy free. I buy mine from Trader Joe’s.
1. Preheat oven to 350. Boil water in the bottom of a double boiler or a medium size pan.
2. Mix all [...]

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New Years Resolution

To become more myself.
“The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming more yourself.”-Anna Quindlen

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Just want to be lazy, I quess

I just don’t feel like doing anything really. I just made some coconut macaroons, which are gluten and milk free. They are very good. I don’t feel like doing anything else. I will post the recipe later.
I am stuck. I don’t want to get off the couch but I want [...]

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My worse pregnancy symptom yet

Not every women gets this symptom, but oh lord do I have it. It’s vaginal fluid that is leaking-no flowing out of me. Its called Leukorrea. Its a thin, white orderless discharge that happens in the first and last trimester to some women. It softens the cervix to prepare for delivery. [...]

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Pregnancy changes you

I have always heard other women say that having a child changes you. Being pregnant changes you. Since conception I am different. I have so much love for this little being growing inside of me. I can’t even express it. This poem does it nicely for me (its a little [...]

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Just another symptom of pregnancy

I have finally developed veins on my boobs. Nobody tells you about veiny boobs, except my friend ML, she actually showed me. Here comes the milk truck!

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Food Rotation Diet

I have been coffee, gluten-free and diary-free for 6 months because of severe food sensitivities. I am also still allergic/sensitive (I use both interchangably but I do not have any cardio or lung symptoms) to lemon, almonds, bay leaf, and slightly to oranges. In addition to restricting my diet, I follow a rotation diet. [...]

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An easy yummy, healthy gluten free snack

Goat cheese with drizzled honey on rice crackers. How easy is that! Even I can make it.

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Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord-Boney M Music Video and Lyrics

This is one of my all time favorite christmas songs. It tells the story of Jesus’s birth. It is very uplifting and beautiful.

Mary’s boy child
Jesus Christ was born on Christmas Day
and man will live for evermore
because of Christmas Day
Long time ago in Bethlehem so
the Holy Bible said
Mary’s Boy Child
Jesus [...]

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Oh crap. I have lower abdominal pain.

On Wednesday, (today is Friday) I had my nuchal transparency ultrasound. It took about an hour of poking and prodding to get the baby into the exact right position to get a measurement of the neck fold. And it kind of hurt. She said that my ovaries were easy to find [...]

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