Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Eating Healthy, Education, Food, School and education, Siblings, parenting on Aug 20th, 2010
That’s a pretty bold thing to say, right? School lunches were never really on my radar before this summer. They were something I never had to worry about. Big Girl was in private school. A very nice private school without a cafeteria. We were instructed to send in whole, healthy fare — vegetarian if possible. [...]
Posted in Favorite Things Friday, Play, Siblings on Apr 30th, 2010
Seems like I am always late to post on Friday. End of the week catch-up, I guess. No theme today. Just some sites, services and stuff I’ve found in the past week. BookSwim. Last week I bought The Red Tent. It was our book club selection. I wanted to take it out of the library [...]
Posted in Siblings on Apr 21st, 2010
I just emailed my local CSA — an organic farm called Golden Earthworm. I’ve been a member off and on for about five years. (The year before last I didn’t sign up in time and got shut out.) I wanted to make sure I’d be on the list again. Belonging to a CSA is sort [...]
Posted in Siblings on Apr 5th, 2010
I stumbled across a story the other day. I retweeted it, too. It was a story from Salon.com called The Deplorable Rise of the Plastic Egg. The point of the story: China and how it currently holds the top plastic egg producing spot. (No shocker there.) The author also laments the decline of real egg [...]
Posted in Siblings on Mar 31st, 2010
Note to my readers: This is one of my most popular, most Tweeted, and most commented on posts. I thought I’d re-run it for those of you who didn’t read it, and for those of you who are new to my blog. The original post date was January 14. Over the Christmas holidays we went [...]
Posted in Siblings on Mar 23rd, 2010
We flew back from Tampa last night. I got to board the plane first using my disability pass. (I am half ashamed that I needed it, but very thankful that I had it as you will soon find out.) We sat in the bulkhead seats, which are the only seats I ever want to sit [...]
Posted in Siblings on Feb 19th, 2010
It’s been a recycling/reducing kind of week, so it’s only fitting that I am dedicating today’s Favorite Things Friday to cool products and companies that can help us reduce waste, improve recycling rates, and reduce the amount of plastic in our world. What do you think? Willing to give them a try? Ecologic packaging. I [...]
Posted in Favorite Things Friday, Siblings, Sleep, Toxins on Feb 5th, 2010
It’s been a while since I’ve written a true cool things-focused Favorite Things Friday, so I figured I’d go back to my roots. For all my new readers — and there are a bunch of you these days — Favorite Things Friday is my opportunity to write about things I have seen and liked recently. [...]
Posted in Siblings on Jan 4th, 2010
I love Consumer Reports. It’s not a “liberal” magazine. It’s one of the most respected independent magazines out there, actually. So when it supports something I’ve been preaching about for ages…well…it’s pretty nice. This weekend we got the January 2010 issue. One of the coverlines: How Safe is Chicken? Page 19. I flipped to the [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Favorite Things Friday, Play, Siblings on Dec 18th, 2009
Here in New York we’re hearing rumors of a giant, paralyzing (yes, a newscaster actually used that word) snowstorm coming our way. Giant. I think I am in the minority when I say I am actually really excited about it, even though I haven’t done any Christmas shopping yet except for what I’ve bought for [...]
