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My highlights: week 24

  This was a week of extremes.  Really high highs, but some pretty miserable lows.  The fact of the matter is, molars are the devil.  I feel so bad for my little pacman. Despite that, we had fun at our various mom and baby activities throughout the week.  I don’t have very many pics for some reason, probably because I was enjoying the moment.  Or chasing P around.  Either way it was good times. We went to the zoo.  We went to music class.  We had play dates.  We stalked the garbage trucks.  Standard things. After Thursday’s… Read more >

While dad’s away…

The mouse will play wake up at 530 am, boycott afternoon naps, and refuse to be more than two feet from me at any point in time.  Oh and throw dinner in my face.  Literally. This post took all week to write.  I started uploading some pics on Monday and next thing I know it’s Friday and I’m not much further along. Truthfully, I love when we snuggle so I cherished the time together, but it also hit 110* on Monday so there was a definite excess of stir crazy going on while we escaped the heat indoors.  His… Read more >

Allergen friendly baby/toddler products

I make 99% of P’s food.  You could call it a labor of love, but I hardly consider it “labor” because I enjoy it immensely and nutrition is near and dear to my heart.  As for the 1%…it’s tricky with a child who has allergies.  Obviously in an ideal world we would have the time to make real food for our kids and we wouldn’t have to rely on pre-made items at all.  [Well, actually, in an ideal world there would be no food allergies, but we can overlook that small detail for the purposes of this post]… Read more >

Summah summah time

We have produce in abundance and I’m loving it.  Being surrounded by farms has major perks. I foraged these plums on my morning jog with P – he snacked on one en route home.  There’s a park with tons of fruit trees near us and last year I got a bunch too.  The birds try to dominate them but there are literally hundreds of plums so it’s not really a competition.  Yet.  The blackberries aren’t quite ready but I’m ready to pounce for those because it’s more of a struggle to beat the rest of the world to… Read more >

Weekend activities and my first recipe with bacon

This past weekend was all kinds of awesome.  We hung out with new friends who I’m certain will become old friends.  P got a taste of his first slip ‘n slide.  I ate a vegan ice cream sandwich that blew my mind.  And we got to enjoy some quality family time before Kyle went away for work.  Summer is his busy season so the sporadic posting often has to do with me being a solo parent while he’s off at random solar sites. That’s a separate mexican layered bean dip for the lactose free folks… Read more >