Natural as Possible Mom

Every Tuesday we get our organic vegetable share. It’s always so exciting — what will be in the box this week? The farmer has a blog that highlights recipes and gives a little background about the crops: what’s coming, what’s going on, how they are getting along. This week’s newsletter contained the following: We were [...]

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We went to a Game Night friend‘s house for a barbecue tonight. Seven adults (one was working) and eight kids. The four big kids played from 4 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. At one point I grabbed my big girl and gave her a hug. As soon as I touched her I was brought back to [...]

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Yawn. I am exhausted today. I was up late last night because we started looking at old videos and didn’t turn the camera off until the week hours of the night. There was a lot to go through. (We got our first video camera in August of 2003. We stopped using it early 2009 when [...]

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As regular readers might remember Katelyn learned to ride her bike a few weeks ago. As of this past weekend she was doing really well, but still needed to master some of the more difficult aspects of the task: turns, getting started on her own, weaving. So on Saturday I set out to teach her. [...]

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Yesterday my friend Jen Singer (who, despite the fact that I didn’t know her all that well at the time, was the first person other than my husband who knew I was pregnant) posted a great blog about working from home with kids. I read it and couldn’t stop myself from talking out loud. Darn [...]

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Busy today. Stories to edit. Stories to research. Story to write. Still, couldn’t let Friday go by without a fun Favorite Things column. I’ve gathered up some interesting new Web sites. Hope you enjoy! And since I love recounting my own Favorite Things: Keira went from three word sentences to ten word sentences this week. [...]

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At the beginning of the year, my first-grader ate whatever I put into her lunch box. It came back empty every day. These days, however, I guess the honey wheat pretzels and animal crackers I’ve been sending aren’t cool. There have been many days her box comes back full to the brim minus the sandwich [...]

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PepsiCo on Tuesday announced a new global policy on sweetened sodas in school: They’ve taken a withdrawal. Starting in 2012, you won’t be able to find a can of Mountain Dew — or any of its full sugar sodas — in any K-12 school across the world. (PepsiCo already pulled the trigger on the policy [...]

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At the beginning of the year Katelyn was obsessed with clubs. She’s come home almost every day telling us about this club or that club that she wanted to start. She’d rush off to school so excited about asking the other kids to join with her, but invariably she’d fail to sign people up. (She [...]

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My baby turned 19-months-old yesterday. About a week ago she’s started asking why whenever we told her something. “Keira, time to put your pajamas on.” “WHY?” “Because it’s late, and you need to go to sleep.” “WHY?” It is seriously so cute I can’t help but smile, even as she is driving me nuts with [...]

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