Author: Calamity Jane
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Being The Mama
I’ve been reading Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Cohn in all my little available moments lately. My head is a-swarm with thoughts, but one that really stuck out to me from his book was just a short paragraph where he talked about “being the parent,” as in not responding to your two year old’s behavior with…
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Slow Cooker Leftover Granola Bread
I don’t know about the rest of you homemade-granola-makers-with-kids, but we end up with a fair quantity of leftover, soggy granola. Never all at the same time, mind you. A bit here, and a bit there. But it adds up. Where it adds up at our house is in a pint jar in my freezer.…
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Trixie’s Dark Side
I actually wasn’t even thinking of that last post as product advertisement until your comments came in. I was just show and tell-ing my new toy. But of course it would make you all want one too! And hell, if you can get ’em at Costco for $30, make haste! My online order was a…
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Every Mama Needs a Birthday Toy
And mine came in the form of a Fagor 3-in-1 Electric Cooker. We all have our little quirks. To each their own. And all that. This brilliant little device is a pressure cooker, slow cooker and rice cooker all in one square foot of counter space. I had never used a pressure cooker before, and…
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Hope and Hopelessness
I just have to share an incredible quote I found at Old Recipe for a New World, by her Man who is a teacher, addressing his graduating class. This quote hit me like a falling piano. It was so on point with the Kid Post, and my hope/hopelessness for the world. It states so perfectly,…
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