April 2012
30-Minute Chicken Noodle Soup (From Scratch!)
Spring has receded once again. It’s freaking cold outside. I got the sudden urge for soup. Homemade chicken soup. So I threw some together, from scratch, in less than 30 minutes. And it was good. I thought this would be something other moms might want to know about.
30-Minute Chicken Noodle Soup (From Scratch!)
6 cups low-sodium chicken broth
1/2 lb of…
04/22
2012
Comments
Bottle Feeding in Public
Whenever I go out with my son, I bring a bottle of pumped breast milk just in case I need to feed him on the fly. I have no problem nursing in public, but sometimes it’s easier to give him a bottle for 10 minutes than find a place to breastfeed him for 40 minutes. Say, whenever we’re standing…
04/22
2012
Comments
Reasoning With a[n Insane] Toddler
Tonight we had a lovely family evening. We took the kids to the park. We went out to dinner. We got ice cream after (ice cream is a HUGE treat. We seldom have it, and she got a “kid-size” cone that was actually enough to feed 3 kids. No wonder we have an obesity epidemic in this country…kid portions…
04/19
2012
Comments
Breastfeeding and Advertising: Never the Two Shall Meet?
Yesterday, a Korean ad for Oreos made waves for featuring a breastfeeding baby holding an Oreo. OK, maybe my description is a bit inaccurate in the eyes of many: the ad featured a breast, at which there happened to be a baby with an Oreo. Regardless, the message is clear: Oreos are milk’s favorite cookie. Ha! But there was…
04/18
2012
Comments
Me-Time
04/04
2012
Comments
Running List
My life is one big list. OK, really my life is 8000 little lists. Which is not helpful, because my to-do list always has chores that I’m probably not going to get to on a normal day (like “organize garage” or “swap winter and summer wardrobe”), but I put them on my daily lists so I don’t forget about…
04/26
2012
0
Comments