Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Going Green, Recycle, Reduce, Sustainable on Jun 17th, 2010
I don’t really use a lot of makeup. A little lipstick, maybe. Some blush. Occasionally, mascara. Still, I end up with lots of little plastic tubes and packages that can’t go into my recycle bin. I don’t throw them out. I just leave them in the bathroom hoping to find a way to recycle them. [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Emotional development, Food, toddlers on Jun 16th, 2010
I use food as a reward for my little girl. There. I admitted it. I’m doing something I absolutely shouldn’t do, and I don’t know how I feel about it. I was way more careful with my big girl. I never used food as a reward. Hugs and kisses, yes. A cup of yogurt or [...]
Posted in energy, Environment, Going Green, Sustainable on Jun 15th, 2010
ExxonMobile wants you to know that what happened on BP’s oil gig was an anomaly. So says its new blog, Perspectives. According to the post Addressing the Gulf of Mexico Spill, which was written by Ken Cohen, ExxonMobil’s VP of public and government affairs, it’s important to realize how much we need all that deep [...]
Posted in Emotional development, toddlers on Jun 14th, 2010
Before Big Girl was born I questioned my parenting potential. I spent months, actually, discussing this very topic with a therapist. Would I be a good parent? Would I screw up any child I had because I was, well, a little screwed up? I agonized over it. And yet when she was born, I wondered [...]
Posted in parenting on Jun 11th, 2010
Preface: We’re home and my little one is sleeping…but I wasn’t always this calm today… I put my little one down for a nap around 2 p.m. Ten minutes later I heard a loud thud come from her room. I knew before I opened the door what had happened. She jumped out of the crib. [...]
I am a freelancer but I have several regular clients — companies I work for on an ongoing basis. One of those clients scheduled an important meeting for today. Usually, this wouldn’t be a big deal except today it was — a big deal, that is. Today’s meeting overlapped with my big girl’s spelling bee. [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Eating Healthy, Food, Friendship, Organic on Jun 9th, 2010
As many of you know, I belong to an amazing community-supported agriculture program called the Golden Earthworm Farm. This year, in fact, I am a drop-off location, which means my house is the place where 19 people come to get their just-picked organic veggies. While the price is pretty reasonable — about $20 per week [...]
Posted in clothing, Emotional development, Gender on Jun 8th, 2010
Let’s get this out of the way: I normally do not like skirts or dresses. I don’t like wearing stockings. It’s really hard for me to find dresses that work with my body type, and skirts are ehh. You have to worry about how you sit, where you sit and whether or not you’ve shaved [...]
Posted in Environment, Health, parenting, Preventative medicine, Safety on Jun 7th, 2010
Sunday was overcast and windy. Still, we made plans to celebrate a good friend’s birthday so we were all sitting on the beach. I was covered head to toe. Spinster hat (a phrase coined by my friend because he says it makes me look like a spinster) on head. Towel over legs. Umbrella attached to [...]
Posted in Emotional development, parenting on Jun 3rd, 2010
My little girls have spent a lot of time with their daddy. While my husband was working from home he took my little girl to mommy-and-me classes. He took her to parks. They went to playdates with my friends. He also spent quality time with the big girl. He got her up and out every [...]