Archive for August, 2009
Two things I want to have as soon as we buy a house: a clothes line and chickens. I want a Rhode Island Red, at least one! Check out this hilarious backyard chicken coop hat is disguised as a trashcan I also like this movable chicken coop from My Backyard Chicken Farm. GreenFoot has an [...]
After my utterly crappy morning I needed to make something so that I wouldn’t feel like such a useless loser who gets her kid in a bike accident. I pointed to an oil cloth lunch bag pattern by Skip to my Lou free over on Indie Crafts this morning and thought I would try it [...]
Man! What a crappy morning! Kiddo asked to go for a bike ride and so I packed us all up and we left. I made a DUMB choice to continue past Grand a block in order to get to the safe bike riding path and what do you know? Yes, I crashed with Jack on [...]
I’ve spent the last several hours trying to decide what to do today. when Jack gets up from his nap should I take him on some outing? A fun toddler outing to a play cafe or park? Or… should I take off all his clothes and let him run around naked while I putter around [...]
I recently encountered a strange phenomenon. Some one handed me a small plastic bag of commercially prepared apple slices. Why not just an apple, I ask you?! An apple is a wonderful little compact thing that stays fresh without the use of chemicals all on it’s own. It requires no packaging and the parts you [...]
Vim and I made cupcakes this weekend. The recipe from the latest Cooks Illustrated. I was expecting them to be sooooo gooood. and then I was mostly disappointed. I think I hate butter cream frosting. The joy of cooking black bottom cupcakes are better and the cream cheese and white chocolate frosting I make is [...]
We took Jack to see Ponyo over the weekend and ever since then all the bath play in this house has been centered around ponyo and boats. Jack apparently most touched by the scene in which Sōsuke holds Ponyo in his hands. This is MORE PROOF that kids movies DO NOT have to be replete [...]
I love it when health care professionals give you impossible to follow instructions about how to live your daily life in order to be healthy and/or uninjured. I just want to poke them in the eye. And I want to drop my squirmy 27 pound kid off on their doorstep. About 20 minutes after my [...]
I’m reading the Louisa Bates Ames book about two year olds right now. I like her books even though they are dated in a ‘mommy does all the housework and daddy wears a suit and goes to work’ sort of way. I can deal and read around it. Last week at playgroup there was SO [...]
I made pizza last night. I couldn’t find the all purpose flour so I used half wheat and half bread flour. It turned out a bit heavy but fairly yum. I was also out of walnuts and was sad about it. I love walnuts on my pizza, with goat cheese and I hate sauce. This, [...]
all these for 5$!!! woot! Originally uploaded by Minnibird I love East Bay Depot for Reuse. Every time I go there I get a huge haul of old kids books for like 5$. This haul includes Richard Scary’s What Do People Do All Day, a book about whales, some golden books, some Pickles books and [...]
I hate Ikea shopping carts. Have bitched about this before? they ALWAYS list to the right and so you end up pushing your cart sideways in order to go forward. So all of Ikea is filled with people cursing and struggling with their annoying carts. I wanted to go there today but as I was [...]
Actully I think Jack has the concept of 3 down as well as the concept of two, he can stand on one foot (mostly) and he can count to six starting at two… I’m not sure why he considers one irrelevant. My baby book tells me that standing on one foot and the concept of [...]
flying a kite by himself Originally uploaded by Minnibird
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