These days I mostly try not to write. My life is so full of work and family and weeding. But every now and then, my brain starts to itch and the only way to scratch that itch is writing. This is where you will find my most recent scratchings.
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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 two year old behavior. Remembering that we are the adults, and acting our age. Of course this doesn’t mean not getting down on the floor and playing walruses. This means that when my Almost Three gnashes her teeth and screams at the top of her…
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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. The idea of re-purposing the stuff came to me last fall and is one of those small life changes inspired by Riana. ‘That stuff is still perfectly good, albeit soggy.’ I said to myself one day. ‘I worked hard for that granola. There’s quality foodstuffs…
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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 full $100, and even that was worth it to me. But just so we have it out in the open, ole Trixeroo ain’t perfect. The biggest fault for me is that the insert pot is teflon, or some such non-stick. I swore teflon out of…
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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 didn’t even know I wanted one. What I thought I wanted was a slow cooker that could adjust to higher temperatures for browning onions and whatnot. I have used a pressure canner lots of times, but never a pressure cooker. Though the quick cooking was…
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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, and even gives me a better understanding of what I was trying to say. Don’t be surprised if this shows up soon in my sidebar. Thank you to the great teachers of the world. “…If you should despair about the hopelessness of the world, remember:…
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