L. has a quirky habit — okay, he has lots of quirky habits, but I’m only planning to address one in particular tonight. We’ll leave the fact that he bites his toenails for another day. He is the master of
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I could also have titled this post, “Damn, the holidays are expensive…” but I think the problem is deeper than that. I’m missing my farmer’s market. I’m missing it for obvious reasons – the camaraderie, the beautiful produce, the experience
Here I sit at my computer on the first evening of the month of December, and I’ve neglected to post a meal plan yet! The time, it has been getting away from me lately. I’m not even sure my proverbial candle
Another Thanksgiving has come and gone, and I didn’t even write a thankful post. I meant to, I really did, but…you know. Life. And all that. As it happens, though, I’m sort of glad that I didn’t get a chance
A few years ago, J. and I came to the realization that at least for the foreseeable future, we were not going to be the architects of our own Thanksgiving experiences. We spend each Thanksgiving with his folks and, if
I’m freshly back from a wonderful weekend adventure with 5-year-old L., and my mind is churning on — what else? — food politics. My fabulous firstborn and I took his first big train trip to New York City, to visit my
I’m impossibly busy tonight, so unfortunately, I have to rush through this post (as much as I’d like to do anything BUT rush). I’ve got tons of cooking going on! Oh, I know — this is ME we’re talking about.
If you want to get a recalcitrant toddler to eat his spinach, apparently, make it seem like pizza. At least, that’s the rule of the week in our house, as P. continues his strike against anything green (we’re on about
Dinner and Donations… It’s been so busy since my last post, I haven’t had a chance to update you all on the end of the $5 dinner week…nor get started on $4 dinner week! Yeesh, have I got a
Last night I introduced the idea of the add-on system for varying your kids’ lunches, without going crazy cooking tons of extra items, AND without pushing them so far outside the comfort zone of “familiar” lunch foods that they’d start