“I signed up for a 1,000 points per day challenge on Just Dance,” I announced at the Weight Watchers meeting today. That’s about 4-5 songs per day, although you don’t actually have to dance every day. “Does that fit into your lifestyle?” the leader asked. Happily, I was able to say “Yes!” If you’re working, [...]
Posted on September 06th, 2011 in Parenting, Sustainability
According to AdvertisingAge, sales of disposable diapers were down 9% for the 52 weeks ending August 7, 2011. Meanwhile, the number of babies age two and under fell by only 3%, and sales of diaper rash creams increased by 2.8%. AdvertisingAge reasons that this means that parents are letting babies sit in dirty diapers longer [...]
My husband often accuses me of being addicted to the internet. And he admits that he sometimes has a problem too. Lately, I’ve found myself feeling too tired to get things done — but not too tired to play around on the internet! Sometimes I fool myself that I’m getting things done on the internet. [...]
You can feed your kids up with good home cooking, and they’ll thrive, but what about when they get out on their own? Will they be able to feed themselves for life? Kim Painter wrote about this recently in USA Today. She points out that teens and young adults today often have no idea how [...]
Almost every day, students come up to me at work and say “I saw you riding your bike!” That’s one of my favorite things to hear, and not because it’s some kind of ego-gratification. It’s because I hope I’m planting seeds, like my parents and many other people did for me. For instance, my mother [...]
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It looks like we’re near the end of our canning season. I still have pears in cold storage, waiting to be processed, but the tomatoes are done! Altogether, we’ve done applesauce, tomato sauce, tomato jam, crushed tomatoes and pear jam. I still plan on making pear sauce and/or pear butter. It’s not a complete winter’s [...]
My middle daughter turned eight today. She planned her own celebration, including the transportation. This is what she chose to do. First, we biked down and picked up her friend. Then the three of us biked to the local Izzy’s restaurant (for which we had a coupon) for lunch. Then we biked home for presents, [...]
I was immediately drawn in by the first episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, and have been equally captivated by each episode. Of course, I’m totally on board with his mission to bring real, wholesome food to the people of Huntington, West Virginia and elsewhere, but the series also features good storytelling! I encourage everyone [...]
