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For this week’s recipe and some backstory lol, I got sick when we returned from vacation and I’ve been struggling..
However, my husband’s birthday was on Wednesday and I wanted to do something special so I made a Portillo’s Chocolate Cake from the city he is from. If you’re not familiar, this is a world famous chocolate cake from a restaurant in Chicago. But if you don’t want to travel all the way to Chicago, follow this recipe and you can try it yourself (like tomorrow)!
It turned out soo good and my first thought when I saw it was Matilda and the chocolate cake scene.. anyone else? Now it is making me want to re-read Matilda..
Next, my product recommendation and activity kind of go together this week. I ate a lot on this past vacation and I was feeling super heavy.. so I told my husband: “Hey, when I return I am going to do 10K steps a day.”
And to motivate myself, I got a cute pedometer because I don’t want another reason to be glued to my phone! I did some research and this one looks like the most reviewed and the easiest to use.
While I did not achieve my goal because I got sick and had to do a lot of horizontal parenting this week, I will be back at in July!
In fact, please let me know if you also have the same goal because I’m thinking I could create a little 90s mom club to keep each other accountable in the summer to get those steps in..
Which also reminds me, the activity that I recommend to you for this week is to take a walk without your phone and/or take out your earphones and make conversation with other people when you’re walking around. I know this might not seem like the most exciting or lucrative activity that I am suggesting but I think it’s the right one for us to try out.
Monday was the only day I tried to do the 10,000 steps before I failed lol, but on that walk I was listening to a podcast when I ran into a neighbor who is a grandma living down the street. I took the AirPods out and we ended up having a 10 minutes conversation where she shared with me a list of things to do in Austin this summer with a toddler. Which yes, stay tuned - if you’re interested I can compile this list to share later!
And then I walked by another neighbor’s house whose hydrangeas I’ve admired and I took our my AirPods and told them so. Immediately, they asked if I wanted a cutting and before I knew it I walked away with a plastic bag of hydrangeas to plant in my own garden!
All this to say, try out a walk where you intentionally take out your earphones and make conversation with someone on your walk! I think we could really all use a little more connection.
That’s it for this week, I would love to dream up of a 90s Mom Club where we can go on unplugged walks, read books, and catch up virtually about it all. Let me know if that’s of interest and have an ama
zing weekend!
xoxo
Andi
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