The past couple of months have certainly been a test of Mommy endurance. Obviously, I am now working, which is still a trip. Youngest started school, which was traumatic for both of us, and promptly caught every germ he had missed in his life with a stay-at-home mom. We’ve been through swine flu and four [...]
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Learning to Cook in High Heels
Posted in Food, Reviews, Work! on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Silencing My Inner-Jew
Posted in Food on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was born a picky eater, to a woman whose cooking is revered locally. Those years of homesick cure-all cooking in Los Angeles made my mother the best cook I know. Don’t take my word for it. She’s since had a restaurant and a catering business, and regularly receives marriage proposals from strange men, including [...]
The Friday Diet Coke Shortage—An Emergency of Epic Proportions
Posted in Food, Randomness on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am running low on Diet Coke and it shows. I already have a nervous twitch, and soon, I will probably start foaming around the mouth in a snarly fit of withdrawal. If my husband knows what is good for him, he will hit the EZ Mart on his way home and relieve my pitiful [...]
The Cookie Peace Treaty—aka Forced Disarmament and Some Granny-Style Distractions
Posted in Food, Kids on June 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As the temperature crept past 100 yesterday, I knew we were in trouble. I tried to get the heathens outside with me to weed the garden, but after fifteen minutes, even I was whimpering in defeat. 100 degrees with 90% humidity drove us back inside, and I think we all had tempers that were noticeably [...]
Hotter than Hades, and How Not To Be a Classless Floozy
Posted in Food on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s freaking hot around here. Miserably hot. Fry an egg on the sidewalk hot.
Me and heat are not the best of pals. Heat itself is one thing. I spent many a year in southern California, so I can do heat.
But in Louisiana, the heat is married to the blasted humidity, and that makes some summer [...]
Germ Warfare and Italian Food
Posted in Food, Kids on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
School is out my friends, which of course means my kids are sick. Don’t ask me how they managed to catch a cold exactly 2 seconds after school was over, but they did. Between them coughing all night, and acting like yahoos all day, this week hasn’t exactly been the best start to summer vacation. [...]
When is a Cupcake More than a Cupcake?
Posted in Food, Kids on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seven years ago, I gave birth to Oldest, aka Demon Baby. If you ask me, I’d swear it happened just last week. How did my super-screaming-wriggling-ten-pound-baby get to be seven??? When did this happen? He was supposed to stop at five, but oh-no, he just has to keep growing!
(That sound you hear is my biological [...]
A Slice of Friday Randomness
Posted in Food, Garden, Kids, Randomness on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was field day at Oldest’s school, which any mother knows is always barely organized mayhem. This was Oldest at the beginning of field day:
About ten minutes later, he started looking a little funky. Wasting no time, I hauled him out of Field Day and down the street to the doctor, because it is a [...]
Fake It Till Ya Make It–Dinner Rescue
Posted in Food, Kids on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Living deep in the heart of BFE (and if you don’t know what that means, google it), I cannot just run to the grocery store on a whim. Every time I need to go anywhere, I can bank on at least on a 30 minute drive…one way. It’s my lot in life, the bane of [...]
The Vegetable Battle
Posted in Food, Kids, Marriage on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a woman with two highly picky children and one moderately picky husband, my house is often a battleground at dinner time. The reason? Vegetable diversity. These guys like few, if any vegetables. Furthermore, they have no desire or interest to expand their culinary palates beyond the two vegetables they will actually eat.
This problem is mostly my [...]
