Mine is arriving today. I was going to just get it from the library but then I saw the excerpts in People and felt like I needed to support her willingness to be transparent.

The Exec Prod answered a question about this in her AMA on Reddit:

This one from Smitten Kitchen. I usually add tomatoes and sometimes corn and/or black beans.

Not as far as I know. I used the youversion app for the reading & my podcast app for the podcast.

I did it last year & enjoyed it. I listened to the passage of the day & then the podcast first thing in the morning. I printed out the list of additional resources and used those as needed. I did get the book as well, but I mostly bought it because the podcase itself is free and I wanted to be supportive. It was not necessary at all.

Initially we all saw the same family doctor which was great except for vaccines. We had to go to the Dept of Health for those. Then our doc moved away, so we switched the kids to a ped. That practice's rule was that they would treat patients up to the age of 19, so both kids switched to a family practice at around 18 or so.

Because you are so in the middle of everything. Easy walking/biking distance to a fabulous library, great restaurants, great shops, lots of events, and then easy biking access to so many other things since you're on the trail system. Having to drive places after having all that would not be fun. Being 5 minutes from church would also be something I just wouldn't want to give up. We've never been that close & I wish we were. And if the people who go to that church are mostly that close as well then I think it would be super hard to suddenly be much further away. Plus, there's no way your house won't continue to appreciate, so it's not like you have to move now or you'll lose out on a high sale value.

Based on your description I can pretty much figure out where you live and there is NO WAY I would move.

I've only visited LA with a car, so no advice there, but if you're flying into Burbank you should eat at Porto's!

I almost answered "no" without asking the kids because I never showed it to them. I asked and they did see it though.

This is my go to recipe, but it uses cream cheese and heavy cream instead of sour cream. Super easy and you can adjust for spice depending on type of rotel, additional peppers, etc.

Aw, thank you! That is very kind! I'm going to try a regular insulated mug though--I'm sure someone else would be glad to get the Ember!

Do you know what brand he has? Thank you! I'm leaning towards getting one of those and a decent travel mug. The Ember mug draw was that I could carry it around and the temp would remain stable, but the more reviews I read, the more I'm afraid that it'll be finicky and that it'll break in a year or less.

Thanks you all!! I had talked myself into really wanting one--especially after I saw the Costco deal, but it sounds like it's not really worth it. Sigh.

I was getting ready to order an Ember mug and then I looked at reviews for the app on both Apple and Android. Apple has 2.5 stars and android 1.7. I mean, to be fair, there are only 1K reviews on Apple & 3K reviews on Android (100K downloads), but if the app is as terrible as the reviews say then I don't know that I want to spend that much on a coffee cup. If you have an Ember mug, is it easy to use? Will I be able to program the temperature and then pretty much ignore the app from then on or is it something you have to fiddle with frequently?