Chat Over Bone Broth

You look at me like I’m crazy, since it’s only 4:30am and I want to chat over bone broth.

{This post is part of my 101 Days of Blogging series, inspired by Experience Life magazine’s 101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy, authored by Pilar Gerasimo.}

Day 38: Say No To Soda

Both regular and diet soft drinks stimulate a pro-inflammatory insulin response, trigger cravings, acidify the body, decay your teeth, toxify your body, and leach minerals out of your bones. Kick your soda in favor of water and you may find headaches and other chronic health problems subsiding. Revolutionary Act #38, powered by Experience Life

But here we are, bright and early on a Saturday morning.

Can you believe it’s been a month since the last time we sat down to chat over broth? Me neither.

I’d begin by telling you that today is a very similar day to that one, in the sense that A Loving Spoon nut butters will be at the Williams-Sonoma in Union Square for some fun. I tell you that I really enjoy those events because I always meet so many wonderful new people. The team at that location just flat out rocks, too! They have invited me to do an event in December, around the holidays, where I’ll be using their main cooking space and baking peanut butter cookies. We are putting together cute gift packs filled with some of the baking items I’ll use + my jars of peanut butter. Question remains: should I make Honey Roasted with a touch of Fleur de Sel Peanut Butter (currently sold out of this flavor) Cookies or Honey Vanilla Bourbon Peanut Butter Cookies?!

You then tell me about all the new flavors you’d love to see my company come out with. I nod, “Yes, sure, yes, sounds great.” I tell you that I’m currently going through company growing pains, and trying desperately to figure out solutions. I always thought I’d just “make peanut butter and sell it.” This business has been anything but that.

“But,” you say, “I heard you told Nutiva this week you are leaving your full-time position with them?” I tell you that yes, in fact, I did – because seasons change. I know I’ve told you before, but what I have been doing up to this point has had me at a breaking point almost daily. Nutiva was full-time + A Loving Spoon nut butter + running this blog, and with all of it, now being contacted daily for various things. More important than all of those combined, though, is my desire to watch Samarah grow, and to be more present for the next child(ren) that are coming into our lives. Ahem, you do know we are expecting, right? I am going to miss Nutiva like none other, but I know deep down that this is the right thing to do.

I stop and say, “Totally off subject, but have you ever heard of urban homesteading?” No?! Okay, well look it up, check it out. I’ve begun researching it a little, and I’m trying to figure out how to implement our own version of it. One of my goals with being home more, spending time with the kids and doing the at-home-mom thing is to get even more crafty and creative in my “crunchy” kind of way (if you’re reading this, Jen, I know you’re laughing). We don’t live on a farm, on gravel roads or anywhere remote, but I still believe I can implement a makeshift homestead life, urban style.

You ask for updates on the house. I tell you we finally got our main living room furniture in. We love it, but have already been told that we’re crazy for not scotch-guarding it yet. Who knew?! We have two other smaller living rooms, and have decided that one of them is going to be our cozy family room/kids playroom. We bought the rug for it, which is a “rainbow” of sorts. We decided on my Brian Andreas artwork, and if you know anything about his artwork, it’s creative, playful, colorful and borderline crazy – I adore it. I bought my 5th piece, each of them at 11 x 14, and we are placing them in larger, white frames and lining them on the wall. We are still looking for furniture in that room, so once it’s buttoned up a little more, I’ll finally share it! I could tell you so many more things about the house, but I’ll save it for another day.

At this point we start talking about how annoyed we are by the fact that it’s mid-October and still in the upper 80’s to low 90’s. I ask you about all the fun things you’ll be doing in the next couple of months for the holidays. You fill me in on family, fun and travels. You ask, “I bet you’re going home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, right?”

I reply, “Not this year.”

You don’t think you heard me correctly, but you did. After a lot of back-and-forth, we made the decision to stay in California through both holidays this year. That’s never an easy decision to make, but we have opted for spending the downtime more stress-free without the chaos of traveling. “The good news,” I tell you, “is that we are planning a 2-week trip to Minnesota this summer, and we know the extended stay will be lovely!”

Our broths of sorts are almost gone.

I’ve totally talked your ears off, and it’s almost 5am, so I must get going for the day. A long run is calling my name (if the tear on my heel holds up – new shoes!), then a 32g of fiber breakfast, Farmers’ Market and San Francisco.

Albeit the earliness, this was the perfect way to start our days.

Thanks for always being my favorite person to chat over bone broth with.

Xox,
SKH

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