I recently found these life calendars for sale. I have to say that I just think they are the coolest thing ever. They're basically just a huge poster-sized grid of squares with numbers across the top for the week of the year and numbers down the side for the year of your life. There is just enough space in each square to write a word or two. … [Read more...]
The challenges of entertaining a 1 year old
Perhaps one of the most helpful things I read about parenting was talking about how there are just so many different phases with kids as they grow up. A parent that sucks at the newborn phase might be great with a toddler. All parents have strengths and they're bound to find some phases easier than others. So if this phase is hard, one you're … [Read more...]
Baby B is 1!
Well, it has been a whole year since baby B was born! It has been amazing to see how he has grown and changed. He learns new things each day. It's exciting and cool and scary. He knows how to pull himself to standing now. He knows that if he throws food on the floor it gets his mom to pay attention to him. He knows how to stack blocks and … [Read more...]
How do you spend your Saturday mornings?
Yesterday I woke up with a list of things I wanted to do over the weekend. One of those things was painting my old toy box for baby B. It's a nice toybox- solid, unfinished wood. My dad gave it to me when I was young with the intention of painting it. Twenty-five years later, it is still not painted. When baby B was born, I swore I'd have … [Read more...]
What can you accomplish in 50 years?
What can you accomplish in 50 years? Pick a long period of time to consider. My time for this exercise is 50 years. I’m almost 30, so in 50 years, I would be 80. Depending on your age, your time frame might be different. Even someone who is 80 could live another 20 years. A lot can be accomplished in 20 years! For this example, I’ll use 50 … [Read more...]
The one diet tip nobody mentions
There is one diet tip that I think could help a lot of people regardless of the diet that they are on. It doesn't have to do with the rules of what or how much you eat. It has to do with making it easy and appealing to prepare the things you eat. And it's simple: WASH THE DISHES!! This means wash the dishes after EVERY meal. Wash the … [Read more...]
House Sold!!!
My Socorro house finally sold!!! It feels like it has taken forever, but my house finally closed today. I moved to Albuquerque more than a year ago. I am so excited that it is finally gone!! It made a great first house. I learned so much I know things I will look for in my next house... things I liked and things I didn't. I made some … [Read more...]
Dumpster bread (a.k.a dead guy food)
So I've been baking bread recently. Michael Pollan's book Cooked has a whole section on baking bread and he goes very in depth into whole wheat flour, why it's better than white flour, and why what is marketed as whole wheat often isn't really whole wheat. Listening to it as an audio book made me decide that I needed to figure out where to get … [Read more...]
Yesterday we finally ran out of regular sugar… and a bunch of other thoughts on sugar and food
I thought I'd provide an update and a few reflections on my no-buying-sugar-for-the-year quest. In some ways the changes from it have proven to be more gradual than I expected. In other ways, the changes have proven to be much deeper and far-reaching than I expected. I figured that not buying sugar would quickly equate to not having sugar in … [Read more...]
Positive Reviews
It's so tempting when I have a bad experience (like the time I had the windows on my van tinted) to post negative reviews on every review site I can find on the internet, tell everybody I know, and write about it on my blog. Basically it's tempting to complain a lot and at a high volume. This can be easily justified by wanting to save others from … [Read more...]