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// Sweet Thai Chili Beef

Given the choice: chicken, fish, or beef (famous on-repeat words), our testosterone-fueled coffin-dodgers (his words, not mine), would without hesitation say, "Beef baby," while we ladies slowly savour our well-done grilled salmon in greater attempts to keep up with our wonder boys. This is true, and I'm still trying to keep up. A little beef once weekly is always a great idea to boost the bod with heading into and through our winters, and especially when most grains and beans are best left on the shelf in your world. A beef burger usually does the trick for us, but sometimes it's nice to take the scenic garden route with a more 'involved' and full of happening flavour dish, giving the serious steak a little time-out. This warm and indulgent Sweet Thai Chili Beef is a loved go-to every other month or so. 'Hope you had a good week, and here's to a delicious weekend. ~xx

// Olay Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Moisturizer SPF 30

One of the perks of our sheltering-in-place over the past four months has been hands down, more youthful skin (ode to that 5 year old feeling :)), with our twice daily go-to face moisturizers on balancing rotation, restful sleep (afternoon naps included), and less outdoor pollution on our delicate skin...

// Piña Colada Sherbet

Early last month, I started thinking about a frozen summer treat for our upcoming warmer weekends. We'd been hearing all sorts of wonderful thing about warmer weather and what it 'magically' could do to our current state of 'what on earth just happened in the world', and I'm hoping just as much too, that this sort of hot magic will give us the reprieve we've been desiring so — more okey dokey outdoors with our younger kids, and not just our backyards. But I do agree, and I'm sure you do too, our quiet backyards are a great start and a blessing. And because I wanted our little ones to have as much fun and refreshing celebration too, I went with a favourite non-alcoholic blend as we make a splash or two out back: 'The Classic Piña Colada', now slushed, to add some tropical beachy-ness to wherever our mood-sails take us, including right on our now green front lawns, sunscreen-slathered of course. Another weekend is on our heels and this time we get to say, "Hello Summer!", (Saturday, June 20th at 5:44 pm EDT). Here's to a little more ex-haling.

 

And a very happy Father's Day to our loving dads out there doing it and doing it, through the thicker and thinner things of it. We love you and appreciate every bit of you for always being there for us through the everydays and crazies of this world. :) ~xo

// The Tuesday Six, Plus...

The funny notes we find while doing more late spring cleaning aka desk drawer purging. Sheets and sheets of loose paper with loved pencil-scribbled quotes I've saved for years in a special middle drawer of little treasures. This one made me laugh so I chose it for today's post. And our eGreeting and eGiftcard for Mother's Day went so well last month (I even received pictures of purchases:)), we are following similar suit for our Father's Day this Sunday! A few ideas have been included at left and in this month's current below. Recent reads, finds, and loved links from around the web...

 

...  The sound of colleagues. :)

...  In praise of internal motivation. "It improves our overall wellbeing".

...  Get ready for seconds with this blueberry pie memory match.

...  A refreshing Father's Day gift idea... (more to the left).

...  The secret benefits of quarantine you didn't see coming.

...  And, leftover skillet chicken with these potatoes now on my radar.

 

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// Sweet Little Pleasures in Threes

{plush market strawberries (or any berry) washed and trimmed, sprinkled with half a cup of super fine sugar and left covered with plastic wrap on the counter for six hours; tossed gently, then placed in the refrigerator for a chilled dessert topping as is, or with...#you-get-to-choose :)}

 

Three little things I've been enjoying and soothing my soul with in recent times. Nothing over the top (as always), and all things nature connected (of course). Plus, I really wanted to share this new-to-me mellow track (below) which was streaming in the background recently while doing some light closet spring cleaning one afternoon. I had to learn more...