Shaz by the Sea

 A wee bit late on this but we went to Washington DC for February vacation. All the boys wrote their own journals. Conor and Caden typed theirs - and Cal used the dictation to write his journal. Pasting them as three separate posts so stay tuned!!!! (Conor’s favorite color is blue) 😝 Saturday Feb 18 We packed our car and went to New York and took pictures at Central Park of fat birds. We used moms phone and dads phone to each take pictures of the birds. There were so many birds in the sanctuary. They weren't shy. In fact, they came close to us humans and were hoping we would feed them. We even saw one lady feeding the birds straight out of her hand! I’m almost 9 My best picture of a bird                                          A Good picture of my family having bagels with my dad...

January 2013 - one of my first posts:  http://www.shazbythesea.com/2013/09/time-to-get-started.html?m=1   Fast forward and I now have almost a decade of blogging under my belt - mostly during the hardest years of my life, albeit the most memorable.  It’s insane to me that I started this blog while living in Los Angeles, in my 20s, and before children.  That was a different life.  However, one thing has definitely remained constant is my love for cooking. I have shifted platforms a little bit by posting more recipes and videos on TikTok than on my blog. I feel TikTok is more “real time” and the videos bring the recipes to life a bit. If you want to check them out, here’s a link to one of my videos: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRpnnpvt/  Here we go! 2023 began and we hit the ground running. We of course went to get oysters right away. The boys are getting so good at it. They all got a pair of waders for Christmas so they can go knee-deep in the ocean.  We ...