This is Rowan's and my standard smoothie ( Read more... )

I made a smoothie for breakfast:
1 frozen banana
1/2 cup frozen sliced strawberries
1/4 cup frozen blueberries
3 spinach ice cubes (I took two big bags of spinach from the farmers market, washed the spinach, blended it with a bit of water and lemon juice, and froze it in ice cube trays)
1/2 cup berry smoothie juice, which was cheap at Aldi. ( Read more... )

So this is what I did, and it turned out well ( Read more... )

I really love finding good deals on things. $9 for a tub of Duplos for Rowan's birthday--would have been $25 new. $4 for a Christmas gift for a friend's daughter--would have been $15 new. A couple of board-book editions, in perfect shape, of three books we have out of the library right now, $2 apiece. I'm going to put those away for Rowan's ( Read more... )

Slugs. In the kitchen. Four, so far, on four different days. The three I've spotted and scooped up and tossed in the ivy patch in front of our apartment are not as bothersome. Bizarre, but slugs are not on my short list of "OMG KEEP THAT *THING* AWAY FROM ME!!!" However, the fourth had made its way onto the rag rug in front of the sink, where ( Read more... )

I won't even say where I found this. I didn't edit it in any way (obviously ( Read more... )

Note to self:
When cosleeping with acrobatic toddler, do not do said toddler the "favor" of pulling the covers over her without first ascertaining that she is right-side-up on the bed. That angry shrieking? Is because she did not want covers on her HEAD, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, Mama.

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So I went to Dollar Tree the other day and bought a bunch of stuff to (hopefully) keep Rowan entertained on the plane. It's two three-hour flights each Saturday. I found a Sesame Street coloring book and a package of color-your-own stickers, and I bought a box of big "toddler" crayons at the grocery store. I found a cardboard Winnie-the-Pooh ( Read more... )

This morning Rowan and I went to Ray's Splash Planet. It wasn't worth full price--the new moms' group had it on the calendar as a parent-tot day, but it wasn't--but I had already promised Rowan that we were going swimming, so we stayed. Unfortunately, it wasn't quite as warm as it could have been, and by the time Rowan stopped being overwhelmed ( Read more... )