Like a baby
Hey! How are you? Hope your morning is going well <3
I slept last night. Like, all night, through the night. If you’ve been following along on the family page, then you know this is a pretty huge deal.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that our new mattress came yesterday?
Bella called dibs before I could get all of the bedding on it…
It also might have had something to do with the carby blanket I wrapped my soul in pre-slumber.
Baked pasta with goat cheese 🙂
All I did was make a batch of my homemade or a la jar marinara sauce, added in some organic garlic and herb turkey sausage + a boatload fresh basil
tossed with pasta (brown rice spirals for me, penne for the Pilot)
put into a baking dish (with lots of cheese for the Pilot), topped with goat cheese and baked at 375 for 15 minutes.
With roasted fennel and onion, with olive oil, sea salt and balsamic:
It was the Pilot’s first time trying fennel- he was a fan. He was like, “Hmm, what is this thing? I like it.” in between crunching away 🙂
This morning after my glorious slumber, I’m off to take Bell for a walk then hit the weights, post office and commissary.
See ya later with a Family post <3
xoxo
Gina
Head’s up: Today’s Living Social deal is for WHOLE PAYCHECK!!! Amazing.
Also, if you’ve been wanting to try Sun Warrior, it’s today’s OpenSky promo.
Something to think:
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Howard Thurman
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This living social deal IS BLOWING UP THE INTERNETS!!!! It’s like Christmas in September. Make sure the pilot grabs one too!
i will! and my mom, and my nana…..
Ahh fennel is delicious indeed
Speaking of mattresses, I really need to get myself to IKEA and get a proper one- been sleeping on an air mattress since I’ve moved into my new digs
Oh goodness, do yourself a favour and save your pennies for a better mattress. Lots of things are great at ikea, mattresses are not one. At least my experience was not great. I cursed it until we could get a new one. Your back will thank you! (sorry to be a Debbie Downer!)
Glad you slept, I understand how different that can feel and what an impact it can have on ones day. 🙂 (the next day you actually feel normal!)
I love your simple pasta dish that you have going on, yum. Fennel is so good roasted too. 🙂
Bella, so cute on the bed and I really enjoy the quote, so very accurate.
i do feel normal! it’s so weird!!!
I have yet to try goat cheese… is the flavor quite strong? Everytime I see it at the grocery store I think of you! 😉
no, the flavor is beautiful 🙂 kind of tangy, and perfect
I agree! Goat cheese is amazing. Eating it with pasta is an out of body experience.
wahooo!!! i saw that deal this morning too!!
Mmm….this post makes me want to eat a ton of pasta then take a nice, long nap. Glad you love your new mattress!
Wow, that roasted fennel looks dreamy!
Super excited about Living Social’s whole paycheck deal AND your Sun Warrior promo. I got vanilla last time and have been waiting so I can get the chocolate! Super pumped!!
I love that quote at the end. I needed that today!
Great quote today Gina!! I love mixing balsamic in with my tomato/pasta messes too. So delicious! Sadly I don’ think the Whole Paycheck deal applies to Canada because when I check out the site, it shows local deals for the cities near me instead. I hope you enjoy it though! 🙂
Oooooh a Tempurpedic. I sooooooo want one of those. Not in this year’s budget, but I am getting the pillow. Yay for sleep!
I love that quote!
And yay for a full nights sleep! I can’t wait to get to have a nice bed. And good dishes and wall decorations. Things on my to-do list once I graduate college and become a real grown-up! ;p
you have time- enjoy college as long as you can 🙂
I just needed to tell you how jealous I am that you got a good nights sleep!!!!!!!! I’m at about the same point in my pregnancy as you are, and I haven’t had a good nights sleep in FOREVER!!! Between trips to the batheroom and trying to get comfy, sleep seems impossible! Hope you feel rested and enjoy your day!!!
And that dinner looks amazing… I think we’ll have to try it tonight!
Wonderful quote Gina. 🙂 So true!
This is too funny, I literally JUST bought the living social deal for whole foods (before I read your blog!) AND that Howard Thurman quote was the quote I used on my senior yearbook graduation page <3
We just got a tempur-pedic a few weeks ago. Ah-may-zing. It’s crazy what a difference a good mattress makes.
Fennel + onion sounds so good — and the whole dinner looks amazing.
Did you get the sort of bed that you can move up and down to recline or lift your legs up? I really want one of those in tempur-pedic style of course.
Gina,
That bed looks super super comfy and I bet it feels good on the preggo body! You have to be the cutest pregnant lady I have ever seen. Seriously…I have baby fever because of you! The pasta looks delish…something about wrapping the soul is carbs is SOO wonderful sometimes (scratch that: all the time). The Thurman quote is really though-provoking too. Good food for thought. I love doing things that truly make a difference, no matter how small.
oh yum pasta. i could really go for some right about now.. even if it is only 10AM here! lol
opensky needs to ship to canada.. wahhhhhh 🙁
Oooooh, I bet that night of sleep felt SO good for you!! Hope it carries you through the day!
Oh, dear. Now that the weather is cooling off, I cannot WAIT to get back into the habit of making baked pasta dishes. Yum.
And I scored my WF deal today, too! WOOT!
I’ve never had pasta with goat cheese. Is it good? I usually go to mozzarella with pasta, but I’m always up to try something new!
Even better- I just saw that today’s Plum District deal is for Open Sky- $15 for $30 worth!
http://www.plumdistrict.com/
I have been wanting to try fennel but have had no idea what to do with it! Roasting seems like it would be easy enough!
I let out a lil yelp of joy when I saw the living social deal. AMAZING.
ah, tempurpedic, how I covet thee! congrats on such an awesome bed. I can’t wait to get that when we find a bigger place.
i don’t think I’ve ever had fennel before. I think fear was instilled in me because of 6th grade science where hemlock and fennel were discussed. one is poison. one is edible. I got the answer incorrect. lol. they look and smell the same, no?
purchase pending on the darn Whole Paycheck deal. 🙂
No joke, the first thing I did when I woke up this morning (after brushing my teeth and pouring coffee) was buy the Living Social deal! Whole Foods owns me!
That dinner looks magical! I was eyeing fennel the other day! Maybe I should give it a try… You’ve inspired me!
You will LOVE your new mattress, we have one and it’s magical. I remember when we were dating, and my husband got his, I would strategically time my weekends so I could catch a nap on it Haha.
I’m planning on buying another bag of Sunwarrior, yumm. Thanks for introducing us to it, I can’t believe I lived without it for so long!
MMM that pasta sounds good, I’ll have to try it!
And I love that quote!
Mmm pasta makes for a yummy and happy tummy :)!
That pasta looks awesome. Hell, all pasta looks awesome! 🙂 I need to try goat cheese on mine instead of parmesan. It looks like it blends very well!
I’m so thrifty, even at half price, WF is still overpriced to me! (Did you quit Costco already? They own me.)
Speaking of deals… Thanks for the Tarte rec! I got a QVC package of it that was sold as 8-pieces for $55 but I think I had 10 items in there! I like all of them but the eyeliner is a godsend. Of my two Buxom ones, one dried up and one is already empty.
http://www.qvc.com/qic/qvcapp.aspx/view.2/app.detail/params.item.A217165.desc.tarte-Glow-Your-Way-To-Gorgeous-8pc-Maracuja-Clay-Collection.cm_scid.zone
Perfect timing on the Sun Warrior promo! This morning I was making my smoothie and thought to myself “I hope Gina puts Sun Warrior on sale soon cause I’m running VERY low.” and then I checked my email and it was there. I wish everything I put out into the universe for would happen as quickly 🙂
Ugh I miss the commissary thiiiiiis much now that I don’t live at Fort Hood!! I love the deals on purses 😉
Mmm…that pasta dish looks so delicious…I love that you can make it suit both you and the Pilot, by making a few little switches – like the type of pasta and the cheese topping – but still basically the same dish – I need to do that for me and my Tom, too! 🙂 Yay for a good nights sleep! It literally makes all the difference in the world, doesn’t it? Such a cute picture of Bella! 😛 Have a lovely day! xyx
Thank you for the heads up on the Living Social deal for WF. I saw your post and purchased one right away!
I am soooooooo happy you got a Tempurpedic. I was going to tell you to get one but I didn’t want to be bossy.
Love love love ours and will never get anything else again.
Just got my “whole paycheck” deal! wooohooo! typing with a baby in my arms is hard btw. 😉
Congrats on getting the final pieces of the casa together! I am a marinara fan, but I also love soy sauce on my stir fry 🙂
How long and at what temp do you roast the fennel for?
So glad that you finally got a good night’s sleep! And yay for the new mattress! Your baked pasta looks delicious! I never think to put pasta in the oven but I’m going to have to get on it now! And I’ve never had roasted fennel either… I’m curious! Yay for the Sun Warrior promo! I’ve been missing it!!
Yey for sleep!!! So glad you got some!!
Also..yey for the living social deal! Thanks so much for sharing. I give them so much dough every week it’s disgusting 🙁
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I am so happy about your sleep! Nothin like a new bed and carbs, you are right. I love fennel so so much. I used to force the chef I worked for to buy it so that I could make salads out of it, and save and eat the scraps! So crunchy and delicious. I love your quote, so what a Life Coach would say!
Congrats on the new mattress.
And random tip…fennel is a lactogenic food. Meaning, for pregnant women or those nursing, it helps with milk production and milk supple (no, it’s not going to make a man lactate, the Pilot is ‘safe’.. haha!) but for you, awesome choice. One of those “Foods as Medicine” type things. There are a whole slew of foods that are good for nursing and milk production and some that aren’t. Ok, I will stop with my lactation educator ramblings 🙂
Congrats on the new mattress!
oooooh fantastic! i’m so glad you told me that
ahhhhh your bed makes me all relaxed hah! It looks so nice and fluffy. I’m actually surprised your husband likes fennel! I think it’s really delicious, but it has a strong flavor and it seems (to me) that not many males like strong flavors like that. Maybe I’m wrong! And it’s so great that you slept well! Gotta get all the sleep you can get so baby is healthy~ 🙂
Gina, Do you know if it’s possible to get the natural unflavored Sun Warrior? I have an allergy to stevia (=major migraines) so I usually roll with the natural Sun Warrior Protein. Would love to grab one of the deals, but understand if it’s only the flavors! Thanks. 🙂
i’d email opensky and see if they’ll make an exception for you- all ya can do is ask!
Gina,
Glad y’all slept well honey.. Gotta get us some of that Tempurpedic love 😀
Living social deal is off charts!!
yum yummmm!!! love me some pasta!
I’m so happy you finally had a great night of slumber! It looks like the baby likes sleeping on a full belly! You pasta sauce looks so tasty!