Get-away Day

I’ve placed our meat/cheese/bread order for next week, set up the spreadsheet for food tracking (including eat out/take out) and the dry-erase board holds a guide to the treasures contained in our fridge.  I made up baby beets, peaches and carrots on Tuesday with apricots and more peaches to follow this afternoon (we’ll be using [...]

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Ok August!

It’s coming, and I am refreshing my mad spreadsheet skills in preparation for Operation Stop Throwing Shit Away So Much Already, Man (aka food waste reduction beginner stylee.)  Also encompassed within this rather weighty experiment is a serious attempt to get our local food numbers between 50-60%.  I am cautiously optimistic, although 5 of the [...]

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Transmissions from the edge

This morning I was sitting on the bus next to Lucy.  I looked down at her legs and realized…
She was wearing a pair of her brother’s pants.  Size 12 months.  As shorts.
That’ll knock the ‘meh’ right off of your face.
I don’t know which is more sobering–a five year old that can’t tell when she’s wearing [...]

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Yours, Bluely

This is going to be self-serving pap.  You have been warned.
I passed out last night at a little after 8:00.  The past week plus of activities and visitors and plans and appointments finally caught up with me, and I simply got too excited about an entire day ahead of me with no commitments to keep [...]

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Food

I guess it’s time to come clean.  We still have a lot of food waste.  Whether it’s food that gets forgotten by Lucy (or dropped or left somewhere to rot) or stuff that gets carelessly shoved in the back of the fridge, I end up feeding more to the worms than I really want to [...]

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I may have gotten a reprieve! Thank you rain!

I’m still bleary-eyed almost all the way through my coffee.  Which is why I was so very, very thankful when my MIL emailed to ask if I wanted to postpone our outing today due to rain.  Because I really, really do.  A lot.  My feet are still sore, my nose is jam-packed, and I am [...]

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Tired. So Tired.

I want to write something but I just can’t seem to form words.  They were there earlier, I swear.  Or maybe that was a hallucination.  You never can tell with words.
I am feeling stretched thin.  Like I’m treading water.  Any number of hackneyed expressions, plus with the aching feet from walking the babe around in [...]

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Too Much Togetherness

I have been veritably glued to my son for close to 48 hours.  When I am not glued to him, he is crawling.  And messing.  Which is fun until I leave the room.  When he explodes.  I mean, I love to be wanted but this is ridiculous.
Actually, it wasn’t so bad until this morning when [...]

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Dear Die-ary

Today I strapped my son to my chest and hauled  him into the Last HOPE.  We went to the Hacking the Price of Food/Urban Farming talk, which was sort of cool.  Most I knew already, but the really impressive thing was how many people were there.  I’m really happy to see that so many people [...]

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*a-a-a-choo*

Sweet jesus let me stop sneezing.  I woke up at 5:45 making a terrible racket, which woke up the baby (horrors!) and now I’m with the eyes itching and snot evacuating and I find it all rather irritating.  C is full-on sick, Lucy had a fever yesterday afternoon but seemed to be recovering by the [...]

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