Tag: parenting

Cabbage and Spinach Frosting…yum, yum. P.’s got a birthday coming up.  (For that matter, so have I…he and I share our special day, which usually means that I just about forget it’s my birthday altogether until somebody reminds me, because

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Green Food.  It’s a term that can strike terror into the hearts of parents everywhere; a color which, when on the plates of small children, appears to inspire loathing like no other color in the rainbow.  Green food doesn’t tend

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OK, time to do something I try to do very rarely: ask you all to do me a favor.  I realize that you check out this blog with whatever frequency you manage to stop by so that you can get

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Yikes.  Mondays. OK, more accurately: Yikes, today, which happens to be a Monday, and which fully lived up to the harried and vaguely menacing reputation of all Mondays.  Not in every way; it was actually a fine, if unremarkable, day

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This week on RRG has been all about the family dinner — its rewards, its challenges, and how I strategize to be able to pull off a homecooked meal every night of the week without going insane.  I feel like

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Yesterday’s post on the relative feat that is family dinner seems to have started a larger discussion (hooray!  Nothing a blogger likes better than discussion); both on the comments board and in my inbox, personal Facebook account, etc., people are

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Miss me? Sorry, readers.  I know I’ve been sporadic lately about posting.  Last week was a doozy that culminated in P. getting very, very sick with a respiratory infection; believe me when I tell you that trying to manage all

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Apologies for the lack of post yesterday — I fell into some sort of black hole at work, from which I have barely clawed myself this morning, and couldn’t devote any attention to the blog.  But believe me, in the

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On Friday, I asked you all to spend this week tabulating, at least loosely, what $2.50 will buy you in terms of “real food.”  Some of you have already responded; some will probably respond later in the week; and I’m

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Happy (choke) Valentine’s (gag) Day. Sorry, but I’m not a big Valentine’s Day person.  Just never have gotten into it as a holiday (my mother, an avowed V-Day hater, takes credit for my aversion).  I’m warming up to it slightly

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