Food and Eating

  • Pregnant Groceries

    I ran into the grocery store on my way home from work today. (Side note:  By “running into the grocery store” I mean I circled the lot three times to find a parking…

  • Pregnancy Brain Farts

    The day before Thanksgiving while Bean was at daycare and Chris was at work, I was in my kitchen baking biscuits to use in my dad’s stuffing recipe.  I put the biscuits in…

  • What a Day!

    Thanksgiving this year was – in a word – wonderful.  Really, really wonderful.  Chris’ mom, Jackie, and her boyfriend, Charles, came down from our hometown of Pensacola and his sister (who lives here…

  • Preparing a Feast with a Beast

    Last Thanksgiving, Bean was tiny. I think he made that Thanksgiving better for me because he was a real, live, breathing something to be so thankful for. But he couldn’t really do much…

  • The End.

    After our trip to visit Aunt Ginny this weekend, Bean was EXHAUSTED.  But it was that exhaustion that makes him hysterical.  Either hysterically happy and spastic or hysterically upset.  There was no stopping…

  • Health Nuts Unite!

    Okay, imaginary friends.  I need some help. Bean eats terribly.  And since Bean is 18-months-old and can’t fix himself his own meals, what that really means is that I feed my son terribly. …

  • Chocolate Covered Bean

    If chocolate cookies are wrong, Bean doesn’t want to be right. If binkies are wrong, Bean doesn’t want to be right. And if chocolate covered Bean’s with binkies are wrong, then I don’t…