Things I Learned in March

I know we have a couple more days of March yet, but I kind of wanted to talk about Easter tomorrow, and then of course, it'll be Saturday Six day after that, so today I will tell you the things I learned in the month of March! I feel like I should have learned more than I did, but apparently I took a mental spring break during part of the month, so I'll give you what I have!

1. Tilapia isn't so bad.

When I was a kid, I ate "fish." You know. McFish and fish fry fish. Somewhere along the way, I decided I hated fish. Hated fish. So I've never eaten it as an adult. Even the smell of it makes me sick to my stomach. I don't hate seafood...just fish. Bring me shrimp, bring me crab, bring me lobster...but don't bring me fish. Well, Ryan has been such a good sport to try all my clean eating recipes over the past few months, even trying things he was pretty sure he wouldn't like. So when a fish recipe came up in the cycle, I decided I should try to be a big girl about it. Now, the recipe called for salmon, and Ryan told me it wouldn't go well. It's a super fishy fish, he said, and he doesn't even like it. So we did the same recipe on tilapia, and it was pretty good! It wasn't a hamburger, but it was pretty good! I can eat fish! 

2. I miss my nieces and nephews I never see anymore.

I went to Faith's birthday party this month, and my "niece" was there. I haven't seen her in almost a year, and the last time I did see her was in passing at a graduation open house. We had a good talk with many hugs. I miss her and I miss all my nieces and nephews that live far away. (Ones related by blood and ones related by love equally!)

3. Being Aunt-Bekah-the-Great is wonderful and sad.

My niece had a baby this month, and I've decided being a great-aunt sounds less elderly if I call myself Aunt Bekah the Great. (Note: I do not actually expect the baby to call me this. It just makes me feel better.) Little Miss Caroline is for-real cute (not the kind of cute that you fake your way through just to save face) and the whole thing is just so wonderful. Know what's not wonderful? Being 850 miles away from her! It's so sad! How in the ever loving world am I supposed to get a baby cuddling fix from that distance??

4. There is a Tetris version of Jenga.

I picked up the kiddos for school one morning and Brother had a whole game with him! (He often brings along a toy, but a whole game was new!) It was a Jenga game, but the blocks weren't the standard rectangles. They were shaped like Tetris pieces. I think this may be exactly the kind of game where Ryan could excel...

5. I kind of like cooking with real herbs.

I use a lot of herbs and spices in cooking, because that's how I get flavor when I don't saturate everything in butter! :) But I use dried herbs for almost everything, because I do not have a green enough thumb to grow my own and keep them alive. But this month I bought an actual bunch of parsley because I made a handful of recipes that called for a lot of it. I had no idea it had an actual aroma. The dried version sure doesn't! Impressive! And I felt so fancy. 

6. Don't hang onto that handle in the car.

So I've managed to injure myself in the dumbest of ways. I have a shoulder/upper arm injury on my right side, and it happened from excessive grabbing on that handle above the passenger door in the car. To be fair, it's not because of Ryan's driving. He's a good driver. It's everyone ELSE that scares me to death and sends me grabbing for that thing. But while I appreciate having a live-in physical therapist who can give me exercises to help it, it hurts! So let me help you. Don't overuse that handle!

So there you go! Things I learned in March!