Well, I read it. I have had a copy that a friend gave me sitting on my desk for months. I was kind of not wanting to read it because of all the hype, but I ran out of things to read and was ready to get this book off of my desk. It was okay. I don’t think it was written very well and I don’t quite get the craziness surrounding the book and the series. That said, I already knew what it was about, so maybe a little of the mystery of the book was lost for me.
Archive for May 2009
Being a Mom is the hardest, scariest and most rewarding thing I have ever done.
Happy Mother’s Day to my favorite mom in the whole wide world!
Part of their team cheer…super cute!!!
Popsicles to finish off a very fun day!
I had heard a lot of really good things about this book, so I checked it out from the library to see what all the hype was about. It was kind of a fun little book to look through; to see if the food we eat was on the “good side” or the “bad side”. Liam really took to this book and had a fun time with it. I just hope that people don’t use it as the Bible of what they should be eating. I found the book to be very inconsistent with what made something good or bad. For example, it condemned one type of cereal bar because it had HFCS in it, but gave good marks to another brand of cereal bar that also has HFCS in it. One of the Kashi cereals made the “bad side” because of the amount of sugar in it. We happened to have it in our pantry and I compared it to the other kind of Kashi which made the “good side” which we also have in our pantry and there was only a 2 gram difference in the amount of sugar and it was still a very small amount of sugar compared to most cereals. My take on the book was that it was kind of interesting, but certainly not the gospel of what we should and should not be eating.
There is a nasty rumor going around that we are getting a Trader Joe’s-on the Missouri side so they can sell alcohol. That would be so awesome, but I will believe it when I see it. Not too long ago there was a rumor about a Whole Foods opening closer and it never happened. I looked on the Trader Joe’s website and there was no mention of the metro on their up and coming Trader Joe’s list…like I said, I think it’s a nasty rumor.
I signed up for another year with our CSA today. It is our Saturday morning ritual during the CSA season to go and pick up all of our goodies. The boys love to go because they like to have some say in what I bring home. Every week there is a list of things that will be available that week, but when you go pick it up, there are always extra goodies you can swap for. We always swap out at least a few things and it’s usually for things like more yogurt, more milk, freshly baked pumpkin bread and other yummy locally grown/farmed/produced/baked goodies.
Colm’s class had some money left over in its budget this year, so our room mom had a really great idea of what to do with it. The teachers use a record play (yes, I said record player) for some of the circle time movement activities and the record player died. So, she bought them a new one with the leftover money that also had a CD player and a tape player. Then, since this week is teacher appreciation week, she made a CD for the teachers with each of the kids’ favorite songs on it. She sent us the list yesterday so we could see it. It is so funny to see the variety of songs. There was everything from Taylor Swift to the Backyardigans to Gene Autry.
We have never gotten a health alert from Colm’s school before. Never. Liam’s school will send them home if someone in their class has pink eye, chicken pox, strep, etc. So, yesterday there was a bright pink piece of paper in Colm’s backpack that said “Health Alert” at the top. Now, I haven’t gotten all wigged out about H1N1, but that is definitely where my mind went for a split second when I saw that note. It turns out a bunch of kiddos in Montessori and in the primary grades have come down with fifth disease. I’ll take fifth disease over N1H1 any day.
We didn’t really know what to expect when we signed up for this tournament, but now that’s he done it I know he will definitely do one again. The kids were divided up by age, belt color and gender. They did their form and broke boards. They were scored after each event and were told what their standing was after each event. Liam is still learning his form for his yellow belt, so he didn’t do too hot on that part. He did AWESOME on the board breaking though. He has only ever broken a board once and that was with his hand. I guess at tournaments they let you decide how you want to break the boards. Today he had to break two boards. When they asked him how he wanted to break the boards he told them he wanted to do a snap kick for one board and a sidekick for the other. I was a little nervous about his choice and didn’t think it was very wise, but he proved me wrong. I think there were only two kids in his group that broke their boards on the first try. I was so proud.
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