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I love mangoes - love them! I just ate a whole jumbo mango all by myself and looked like a beastie while I ate it, but yum...

We have agonized over our impending BIG DECISION and have now decided to put all three girls into schools in the new district where I will be working. It is an amazing, small school district (I think the whole high school has around the same number of students Abby would have had just in her freshman class), and it is 1.5 miles from our home, so school friends will be close. Grace's first grade class will be about three doors away from my therapy room in her elementary school.

I am already loving my new job. The professional development classes have been inspiring and fun, lunch has been fabulous :), and I am thoroughly enjoying all of the people I'm getting to know. Greg told a friend he feels like he has his wife back; I feel back too - and it's a nice place to be.

AND, I am quite excited about a new cookbook I found at Half Price Books. My lifestyle is shifting once again, and now I need quick evening meals instead of crock pot anything. I found Bon Appetit Every-Night Cooking Fast and Fun: A Real-Life Guide to Getting Dinner on the Table - quite a mouthful, yes? I am pretty persnickety about cookbooks - they have to grab me visually: short, quality ingredient lists (not too much "cream of... soup"), short directions, nicely laid out on the page, good white space, and seriously user-friendly - with ingredients I've heard of, made without weird gadgets and gear. So far so good, I'll let you know how the end products turn out before completely endorsing.

Yep, random me is back.