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pumpkin patch

October 19th, 2008

It can’t help our society that once you have kids, it becomes more and more impossible to fit exercise into your daily regimen – what with the requisite weekend morning activities that every good parent drags their kids to. Since Will has not been enjoying soccer, we skipped out Saturday, took the kids for a […]

16 ways to re-use

October 17th, 2008

I’m always interested in ways to re-use products that we’d otherwise throw away, but the ideas are usually… how do you say… dumb? Basically, turning junk into more junk. Or art, and well, my house barely contains the people that live in it much less the tons of art we could produce with our waste. […]

backup plan

October 16th, 2008

If dragon doesn’t work out, we’ve got a back-up non-superhero plan:

torturing kids with fancy food

October 15th, 2008

We’ve been lucky that our kids are good eaters and fall for the 10 bite rule, but I still enjoyed this article on Slate about the extent some parents will go to get their kids to eat veggies.

dragons vs monkeys, a halloween fable

October 15th, 2008

I pick up our 3 year old neighbor and Will from school on Thursdays. We’ve been talking a lot about Halloween, trying to convince Will to branch out away from superheroes. My neighbor is going to be a Monkey. Will has now decided he is going to be a Dragon. The conversation went down like […]

homesick Texan finds Homesick Texan

October 14th, 2008

I stumbled across a great foodie blog, Homesick Texan. Great to me, at least. There seems no shortage of great recipes on the wide Internet for how to serve the fresh cranberry beans, heirloom tomatoes or fava beans I’ve drug home from my farmer’s market, but although delicious, they all seem a little soul-less. But […]

reeks of rove

October 14th, 2008

Just saying. These ads mixed with the latest accusations that Obama runs with terrorists smell awfully familiar.

procrastination pants

October 14th, 2008

We had guests in town over the weekend and Will came home from school Friday with a fever of 102, so I am running a tad behind. To add to the delay, I spent the evening whipping up procrastination pants… You know, guilty sewing. Will has three new pairs of the softest flannel pajama pants […]

fun and games

October 13th, 2008

What I’m doing in the 7 minutes after I’ve stopped doing something useful, but before the India team comes online for our status call: The eyeballing game. Whack-a-bone

the economic crisis is coming for dinner

October 13th, 2008

The New York Times has an article by Michael Pollan asserting that one of the results of our market down turn is an inevitable rise in food costs. Interesting read.

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