Diva-Like Behavior

Maya spent the weekend with her grandparents again, and while they take really good care of her, she often adapts some diva-like behaviors at their place that simply don’t fly at home.  Yesterday, for example, I called to talk to her and when my mother-in-law asked her to come to the phone, Maya replied: “I’ll come to the phone if you give me $1,000.”  

I’m not even sure where to start on this…am I more annoyed that she didn’t want to talk to me?  Or am I more annoyed that she is channeling a majority of the little L.A. park brats?  Or, am I even more annoyed that Ali thought this was hysterically funny?  I’ll have to get back to you on this. 

Anyway, aside from Maya’s Linda Evangelista-like behavior the rest of the weekend has been great.   

On Friday night we hit our favorite restaurant Porta Via in Beverly Hills for a little salmon (me):  

Salmon, steamed kale, and brown rice.

And some sea bass (Ali):  

Sea Bass with mango salsa, asparagus, and brown rice.

The weather was great so we sat outside:  

I know I am horticulturally (that is probably not a word) challenged but is this is a cherry tree…in the middle of Beverly Hills…in the middle of March?   

After dinner we decided to order “Did You Hear About the Morgans?” on DirecTV, but after 20 minutes of torturing ourselves we turned the horrible movie off and watched fell asleep in front of the TV instead.   

Saturday morning Ali decided he needed to go the Century City Westfield Mall and since I needed to buy a gift I joined him.  

What?  You don’t take your laptop to the mall too?  

As Ali hunkered down and got cozy at the Apple store for reasons I couldn’t be bothered to ask about, I hit GAP Kids to get the aforementioned birthday gift.  Afterwards, with Ali still occupied, I found myself at my favorite store CUSP purchasing a completely unneeded, but very cute pair of shoes:  

Just a short time later I found myself purchasing another pair:  

This is what happens when I need to keep myself busy at the mall, hence why I usually avoid the mall altogether.  

Ali finally resurfaced and after hitting up Trader Joe’s we headed home for lunch.  I made him a turkey sandwich:  

And made myself a random concoction of leftovers.  I won’t bore or disgust you with a picture.  

My mom dropped by in the afternoon and we headed to Real Food Daily for coffee and gluten-free cookies.  I forgot my camera but let’s just say that our first visit to RFD was not a good one.  Hopefully their food is better than their coffee/bakery items.  

I dropped my mom off at my brother’s place and returned home to get ready for dinner.  We headed over to our friend Adam and Maliha’s place where she cooked up a storm – salmon, chicken, pasta, bread, caesar salad (made by my friend Nadia):  

And a delicious watermelon, feta, green bean salad that was out of this world:  

Sorry for the iPhone pictures but I forgot my camera again.  

Friday was Nadia’s son Shayan’s 5th Birthday so we celebrated last night with my dessert contribution of a Godiva Chocolate Bar Cake:  

I obviously couldn’t eat any but it received raved reviews. 

So far this morning I’ve gone to the gym, done some laundry, made a batch of brownies for tonight, cleaned the kitchen, and typed this post.  Now we are headed to pick up our little diva.   

I’m sure you can imagine she and I will have some words.