Food and Eating

  • Efficiency Kitchen

    We rearranged the kitchen this weekend. Gracie helped. It was actually a very sporadic decision. Bean was once again not eating his dinner on Saturday night. This time I was getting really frustrated…

  • Gracie Uses Utensils

    Gracie has been using a sippy cup for about a month now, and that’s been going really great. She’s completely off the bottle (in fact, we sold all of our bottles at our…

  • It.s All in the Details

    Now, if I’ve learned anything about my readers over the years, it’s that you folks are nosy, nosy, nosy. And that comes from a very nosy person myself. I love knowing details about…

  • A Stupidly Simple Recipe

    If you’ve been ’round these parts for any length of time, you know that I am not gifted in the culinary arts. I’m getting better every year, but for the most part, my…

  • Short Cuttin. Baby Food

    When Bean was a wee lad, he did not like processed baby food at all. Try though we might, we could not get him to eat anything out of a jar. I was…

  • A Toddler Dinner Party

    In the past few months, dinnertime with Bean has become increasingly…um…hellish? Disastrous? Unbearable? D. All of the above. Bean eats like most toddlers. He has a HUGE breakfast every morning. Usually he has…

  • Eating on the Go With Little Ones

    If I have become an expert on anything this past holiday season, it would have to be eating out with two small children. Whether we’re at someone else’s home, sitting in a fast…

  • I Get Around (in a restaurant)

    This post is going to be the first in a series of posts I do called, “I Get Around,” where I’ll share practical tips for how we navigate different situations with two kids.…