Do you resemble a certain member of your family?
But first, another shot from dinner at the Clay Pit.
And a close up, because when I was looking at this photo, I saw something that made me stop short. It’s super-obvious who takes after whom in our family: I am my mom and my sister is my dad. (Actually, my sister is my cousin Julie. Those two could be twins. But that’s another story.) I never thought I looked anything like my dad. He is short, dark-skinned, and built for power, while I’m lanky and paler-than-pale, without exhibiting a single physical trace of his Italian heritage. But lo and behold, we do share something: My dad and I have the same eyebrows that curve in the exact same place.
Hmmm, well maybe that just means we share a common way of posing for photos. But in any case, I thought it was cool to catch a hint that perhaps I wasn’t dropped off by the stork after all.
By the way, does anyone else sense the need for a Friends reference? Joey: My identical hand twin! The person whose hands are exactly like mine! This thing is a gold mine! Now you’re all going to think I’m strange for putting so much stock—an entire paragraph’s worth—into the subject of eyebrows. Hey, I never claimed to be normal. Normal is so boring.
Something else my dad and I share: a love of chewy breakfast grains (He’s a huge steel-cut oatmeal fan, but I’m quickly selling him on the wonders of bulgur beyond the world of tabbouleh.) When he offered to make me breakfast on Monday morning (my birthday morning), I jumped at the chance. After a glorious run (It’s finally cooling off; no more 90-degree mornings!), I came home to find breakfast waiting for me. And what a breakfast it was!
Dad made three servings of Cinnamon-Raisin Breakfast Pudding. (I added the flowers.) He’d better watch out; I might have to start asking him to make me breakfast every day! (Well, maybe not. I enjoy concocting my own breakfast experiments. But sometimes it’s nice to be waited on.) When I came in from my run, Momma Bear, Pappa Bear, and CCK Bear sat down to a perfect family breakfast, after which it was time to open presents. The breakfast was delicious, the present-opening was exciting (duh), but the best part was spending quality time with the people I love. If you had my parents you’d want to hang out with them too. They are two incredible people (and I’m not just saying that to suck up to Dad so he’ll make me breakfast again).
Cinnamon Breakfast Pudding
- 1 serving cooked bulgur or oatmeal (See: How to Cook Bulgur)
- 1/8 cup (or more) Silk creamer
- sweetener to taste
- generous shake of cinnamon
- handful of raisins
- optional: chopped walnuts
Put the cooked bulgur (or other grain) in your blending gadget (such as a Magic Bullet short cup). Add everything else. Blend! Now add in the raisins and optional walnuts.
Sharing time!
Do you like spending time with your family?
And do you resemble a certain member of your family? Or maybe you all look alike?
I love spending time with my family and I look A LOT like my mom!
Btw Happy Late Birthday! I haven’t been on the computer much in the last couple days or I would have told you on the actual day.
you and your dad have the same eyebrows (yes yours are much prettier but the same shape!).
my dad died a couple years ago and i’m not close with my mom (they’re divorced) so my family is my friends. i know who i can count on and have people i love which is more important than dna.
ironically, one of my closest friends is my cousin, who was given up for adoption by my aunt as a baby – i met her 13 years ago when she came and found us (yay!), and she was the first person i ever felt i looked like in my family, it was so cool 🙂
Haha that is too funny… and kind of true! Your right eyebrows are very similar 😛
I love spending time with my family, and would much rather run errands with my mom then stay at home when there is nothing else to do. I guess that makes me an abnormal teenager!?
My parents look alike (figure that one out!) and my sister and I look alike, but we do not resemble our parents.
It is so refreshing to see an adult spend time with her family. I love spending time with my family, too, but often feel a little strange about it. I also feel lucky to be so close with my immediate family and our family friends.
I am built like my dad, and I definitely have my grandmother’s (dad’s mom) smile and eyes. My fingers are crossed that I inherited my mom’s amazzzzing, youthful skin and incredible beauty (uh yeah still hoping I am growing into my looks).
I love spending time with my family. Most of us live in the same town so we are always visiting one another. While I was in college I lived with my grandparents and I had a blast. Since they are retired I would stay up with them and watch CSI, NCIS and any other investigation show. We would eat snacks and try to see which one of us could solve the case first.
I look just like my mom. People ALWAYS think we are sisters!
Family movie/tv nights are the best!!
I hate popcorn, and my mom likes to tease that it’s because–growing up–she would always hog it during our movie nights, never sharing hehe.
Katie,
I love your blog! I am going to enter the Larabar giveaway too! Love those! I am a spitting image of my mother, people think we are sisters it is crazy!!!!! I love to spend time with family, family always comes first. We are a close bunch 🙂
I am very attached to my family–I spend a lot of time with my parents, sisters + spouses.
I look just like my mom, so I am told.
You’re gorgeous, Katie!! I can’t say who I resemble more..I mean I have a lot of my dad’s features but when I was 7 I looked *exactly* like my mom when she was the same age. I actually saw her picture and thought it was me.
And I love spending time with my family! They just came to visit last weekend and it was a lot of fun. They’ll be back in a few weeks for a game, too! 🙂
I love being with my family–but probably because we don’t do it that often because of our distance from each other-absence makes the heart grow fonder I think.
I am basically a clone of my mom, except–EYEBROWS! Everyone in my dad’s family has this weird trait where the hairs on the left left eyebrow near the nose all stand up straight…and I have it too. So I guess my dad is my identical eyebrow twin as well.
Love spending time with my family, they are the best!!! And I get to see them all here very soon which I am so excited about.
I think I do look like my family, besides the obvious, my twin, I look like my dad and second oldest sister some!
xoxo
I knew a set of twins in elementary school who looked more opposite than ANY sisters I’ve ever met. One had long, curly red hair and freckles. The other had super-short brown hair (completely straight). You wouldn’t have believed they were sisters, let alone twins.
How great is your Dad! That is so sweet. 🙂 I Love my family, they are number one for sure. My mom and I are ridiculous with our similarites-we walk the same, make the same hand gestures, cross our legs the same, we laugh the same, and my husband and my brother love making fun of us, It is good times:)
Oooh I never thought to study how we walk. Hehe I’m going to do that now! 🙂
I think I look a little like both my parents. I have my dads eyes and cheekbones. But then recently I compared a picture of my mom’s fifth grade picture to my fifth grade picture and we look almost exactly the same! Creepy, haha.
How nice of your dad to make you such a yummy birthday breakfast!
You are so so so pretty! this must be the millionth time I tell you this, but you are 🙂
I always thought I look like my dad but I’ve heard that the older I get, the more I look like my mum 🙂
Hey doll!! Long time no chat!
How are you?
Aww what a cute pick! I think you also have the same tip of the nose 🙂 I love spending time with my family…they always get my jokes, never judge and have in depth conversations 😉 Love them!
have a great day!
xxoo
Hi Kris!!! *Waves* So good to hear from ya again :).
My family doesn’t always get my jokes… my mom has a hard time understanding sarcasm lol.
Everyone says my sister and I look really alike. I guess we do, although I would argue my sister looks more like my mom’s side of the family, while I look more like my dad’s side of the family. But perhaps we just say that because we don’t want to admit we look alike 😉
Hi,
I saw those new larabar flavors, the chocolate ones, at whole foods. They look great, but they are not vegan..:(!!
Hi Amber,
I think most vegans would still consider them to be vegan. i just looked at the wrapper, and it says “MAY contain milk from chocolate chips.” The reasons companies have to write that is because they often share equipment with other products that DO have dairy products. So for allergy purposes (i.e. if the machine accidentally didn’t get 100% cleaned in between uses), they have to write it. Law suits, ya know ;).