Eggplant Fever

Beautiful and delicious!

One of the great things about belonging to a CSA is the fact we get fresh, in season produce every week.  I never did get our own vegetable garden in this spring so shopping at roadside produce stands and the CSA is how I've been buying the majority of our vegetables this summer.   The CSA had a bumper crop of eggplants, tomatoes, and various peppers, so I decided to find some new interesting applications for our harvest.

She's here!

Baby Elise joined our family exactly four weeks ago today at 4:46 p.m.  She decided not to arrive on her due date so we had to make a trip to the hospital for a non-stress test to make sure the baby was okay.  Due to the gestational diabetes my midwife had told me that if she didn't come before 42 weeks that they would induce me by rupturing my membrane to get things going.  I left the hospital feeling frustrated.  I wanted to avoid having my membranes ruptured as much as possible.  Up until this point I was all "Water birth, no drugs, all natural."  Little did I know that this labor would be anything but normal or natural.