Sunday, April 12, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Stuck!
Does it make me a bad mom if my first impulse was to take a picture, rather than help the poor kiddo?
Needless to say, The Frog is becoming quite mobile.
Needless to say, The Frog is becoming quite mobile.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Cool sites!
I've managed to come across some great sites I thought I should share:
freecycle.com - you can sign up according to your area. It's sort of like craigslist except you're not allowed to charge money for things. It's where to go if you just have stuff you want to get rid of. I've already gotten 3 board books for The Frog and given away some baby formula. :)
Flylady.net - helps you get on a cleaning plan to stay on top of the clutter and mess. I really like her philosophy - just take 5 minutes!
Meal Makeover Mom's - I mostly enjoy listening to this podcast. You can get it for free on iTunes. It's just 2 moms who are dieticians who take ordinary recipes, make them healthier, and try them out on their families to make sure their kids and spouses will eat them. Perhaps this will save me from a few recipe fails...
freecycle.com - you can sign up according to your area. It's sort of like craigslist except you're not allowed to charge money for things. It's where to go if you just have stuff you want to get rid of. I've already gotten 3 board books for The Frog and given away some baby formula. :)
Flylady.net - helps you get on a cleaning plan to stay on top of the clutter and mess. I really like her philosophy - just take 5 minutes!
Meal Makeover Mom's - I mostly enjoy listening to this podcast. You can get it for free on iTunes. It's just 2 moms who are dieticians who take ordinary recipes, make them healthier, and try them out on their families to make sure their kids and spouses will eat them. Perhaps this will save me from a few recipe fails...
7 months!
The Frog has officially made it 7 months, and what a week he's had!
He's a pretty good eater, in that he really likes to eat whatever I'm eating... and he wants to do it himself. I always have to make sure he eats something on his own while I'm feeding him, or he gets upset.
We discovered that The Frog can sit-up by himself. I just didn't know because I never put him like that, besides in his high-chair, and he can't get into sitting position by himself. Although, as soon as he sees something he wants out of reach, he'll just topple over to get it.
As of Tuesday, he has started army-crawling around to get stuff. I ran to get the video camera as soon as I saw him do it, but he won't perform on command. I'm still not sure why sometimes he does it and sometimes he won't, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before he gets into everything.
And then, I couldn't help but include a couple of extra-cute shots :D
Monday, March 30, 2009
Recipe FAIL, Part I
I decided to start a new, on-going series called "Recipe Fail". Being a scientist at heart, I cannot help but experiment with pretty much everything I ever make, especially food.
I always claim to follow recipes, website/document or cookbook open as evidence, but on very rare occasions does that actually occur (as my husband often laments). I'm on a quest to make healthy food that actually tastes good, which means that I almost never follow a recipe completely - whether it be removing fat or sugar or adding fiber or veggies. And then there are those times when I just really want to make X, but don't exactly have all the ingredients called for, but I have others I would REALLY like to use up. (We don't want them to go bad, do we?) As you can imagine, this often results in, let's just say "interesting" concoctions that I would choose not to replicate later.
And this happens a lot.
So, I figure, even if I run out of blogging material, I'll always have this to fall back on.
Without further ado, I begin my Recipe FAIL by recalling a very infamous time from my youth.... The first recipe FAIL I can recollect:
Back in the day, everyday after high school, I would come home and make a snack which was always one of four things:
1) 2 chicken chimichangas (from Costco)
2) 4 pieces of toast with butter and jam (usually my grandma's strawberry jam)
3) macaroni and cheese from the box (I always ate exactly half* and saved the other half for Eve to eat when she got home)
4) a package of graham crackers and milk (for dipping)
Which thing I made mostly depended on what was available, my mood, or the weather.
One particularly unmemorable day, I decided to make "The Mac", and as I always do, I put the noodles in the boiling water, set the timer for 7 minutes (no more, no less) measured out the 1/4 c butter, and started to measure the 1/4 c milk when.. OH NO!! WE ARE OUT OF MILK!!
Panic ensues.
The noodles were already boiling! What was I going to do? I frantically searched the refrigerator for something dairy to use as substitute. Cottage cheese? No. Yogurt? maaaaybe... and then it hit! One of my most favorite dairy products was sitting innocently in the freezer. Waiting for me to call on it for help. Indeed, we had vanilla ice cream. It's made from milk, right? They're both white, right?
It sounded like a great idea at the time.
Needless to say, that was a complete Recipe FAIL.
In summary:
Milk != Vanilla Ice Cream.
*except that one time when I was really mad at her. I can't remember why I was mad, but I remember that to spite her I ate the entire box of Mac myself. I felt very sick after.
I always claim to follow recipes, website/document or cookbook open as evidence, but on very rare occasions does that actually occur (as my husband often laments). I'm on a quest to make healthy food that actually tastes good, which means that I almost never follow a recipe completely - whether it be removing fat or sugar or adding fiber or veggies. And then there are those times when I just really want to make X, but don't exactly have all the ingredients called for, but I have others I would REALLY like to use up. (We don't want them to go bad, do we?) As you can imagine, this often results in, let's just say "interesting" concoctions that I would choose not to replicate later.
And this happens a lot.
So, I figure, even if I run out of blogging material, I'll always have this to fall back on.
Without further ado, I begin my Recipe FAIL by recalling a very infamous time from my youth.... The first recipe FAIL I can recollect:
Back in the day, everyday after high school, I would come home and make a snack which was always one of four things:
1) 2 chicken chimichangas (from Costco)
2) 4 pieces of toast with butter and jam (usually my grandma's strawberry jam)
3) macaroni and cheese from the box (I always ate exactly half* and saved the other half for Eve to eat when she got home)
4) a package of graham crackers and milk (for dipping)
Which thing I made mostly depended on what was available, my mood, or the weather.
One particularly unmemorable day, I decided to make "The Mac", and as I always do, I put the noodles in the boiling water, set the timer for 7 minutes (no more, no less) measured out the 1/4 c butter, and started to measure the 1/4 c milk when.. OH NO!! WE ARE OUT OF MILK!!
Panic ensues.
The noodles were already boiling! What was I going to do? I frantically searched the refrigerator for something dairy to use as substitute. Cottage cheese? No. Yogurt? maaaaybe... and then it hit! One of my most favorite dairy products was sitting innocently in the freezer. Waiting for me to call on it for help. Indeed, we had vanilla ice cream. It's made from milk, right? They're both white, right?
It sounded like a great idea at the time.
Needless to say, that was a complete Recipe FAIL.
In summary:
Milk != Vanilla Ice Cream.
*except that one time when I was really mad at her. I can't remember why I was mad, but I remember that to spite her I ate the entire box of Mac myself. I felt very sick after.
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