March 11, 2010

things we eat for around $10

Meal time at Casa Melee!

The boys are at the (fortunately?) picky stage where they pretty much prefer the same four meals in endless rotation. These are: chicken nuggets, pizza, scrambled eggs, and quesadillas/grilled cheese sandwiches. I pair those taste sensations with peas, garbanzo beans, black beans, broccoli, edamame or carrots. They also [...]

March 10, 2010

I am a tomato

I’ve felt a little disjointed this week. Actually I feel like that stained glass window man in Young Sherlock Holmes. All broken and jerky.

(Remember that movie? Apparently John Lasseter worked on that window man scene back in the day before he started Pixar and made a bunch of movies that make me weep.)

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March 5, 2010

I’ve got a fever, and it can only be cured by…

This morning as I walked out to the car outside my son’s preschool, I stopped to talk to another mom. She has two girls about the same ages as my two boys. We have the same pediatrician. After talking about vacations and a cool hotel we’d both stayed in once I told her how [...]