Filipino eats: Torta and munggo
Post-partum eating is supposed to be high in protein, to help with losing the baby weight and also to keep you going because you’re losing 500 calories a day while nursing. So both these recipes are handy for those purposes.
I have another reason for learning these recipes and posting them. These are comfort foods that my mom used to cook all the time. And, unlike most American comfort foods, these are actually pretty healthy.
Yes, Elita Loresca had a baby
I’ve had a spike in traffic from people searching for pictures of Elita Loresca’s baby. Folks, I’ve only blogged about Elita Loresca once. Now, this makes twice. Seeing my traffic spike, I went to her Twitter page to see if there were any clues whether she had had her baby yet. Yep, looks like she had her baby in September. So I went to her Facebook page, as her Twitter suggested fans should do. Aha! Pictures of her little cutie pie. I’m not posting any pictures of her baby, since they’re not mine to post. But congratulations to Elita and here’s to getting our little bundles of joy on a sleep schedule quick!
Afternoon at the Huntington
Back when Trinity and I didn’t have kids, I used to spend all day at various Southern California landmarks just taking pictures and enjoying myself. I dragged Trinity to all manner of places, including the occasional hike in the Santa Monica Mountains. Alas, when you have kids, especially a newborn, you have to kind forget the clock and basically run your visit around what your toddler will have fun doing.
See you later, Tammy
Maybe we had just finished an assignment together. But Tammy Abbott, who worked as a photographer at the Glendale News-Press toward the tail end of my stint at the newspaper, and I had decided to stop at a Coffee Bean to enjoy a quiet moment before going back to the newsroom. That was when she told me she was fighting cancer, and even though she was so exhausted from the job and so stressed out from the constant berating she was getting from our managing editor at the time, she was grateful for her job. Not only did the job give her much-needed health care benefits, she was able to do something she loved — photography.
I’ve kept in touch with most of my News-Press cohorts, through Facebook, and have managed to have lunch with one or two and even attend the wedding of another. But it grieves me to say that since I left the News-Press, I haven’t seen Tammy. I did keep up with her and news of her health thanks to another former coworker, Jacqui Brown. Jacqui posted this message early Sunday morning:
And then there were 2 boys
Has anyone else noticed the abundance of books, blogs and other resources about having a baby, but the absolute desert of information when it comes to having two babies? I suppose that the second time around, things should be easier, but….no, not necessarily. Especially if your first is still straddling the fence between babyhood and toddlerhood.
