Meal plan is back! Now that I’m back to my luxurious part-time schedule, I have time to curate a (somewhat) thoughtful meal plan and the corresponding shopping list. As it turns out, BK is done with summer day camp and is now set to enjoy two weeks of Camp Mommy. The first order of business [...]
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Not the Pits Granola Bars
I’m always looking for new and exciting things to put in the Big Kid’s lunch box. Having a full-time summer job this year has meant that BK goes to day camp, one that doesn’t serve lunches. So, summer break has not translated into a break from packing his lunch. I will admit to having fallen [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on July 13, 2011
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On failure
These were supposed to be black-bottom cupcakes, as seen here. I made them in anticipation of a girls’ night in I’m having here at my house tonight with some friends from school. Kind of a big difference, no? I think that the combination of using mascarpone instead of regular cream cheese and overfilling the muffin [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on June 18, 2011
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Baked Sunday Mornings: Salt and Pepper Sandwich Cookies
I love Oreos. LOVE. THEM. I almost never eat them because they are part of the horrific industrial food system, not to mention being fattening and devoid of nutrients. (But! They are [possibly] vegan!) That said, these cookies did not capture my interest the first time I flipped through Baked Explorations, and I was ambivalent [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on March 13, 2011
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Baked Sunday Mornings: Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
It’s a beautiful day, the sun is shining and we’re looking forward to a week of springlike weather. We’re headed to Harry’s class friend’s birthday party in a bit and have a fairly lazy Sunday ahead of us. I have lots of projects from which to choose (some tedious, like folding laundry, some creative, like [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on February 13, 2011
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Strawberry pop tarts
I love Pop Tarts, but they are industrialized poison. So, when I came across this recipe via Mrs. Q at Fed Up With Lunch, I decided to give them a whack. My husband likes Pop Tarts, and my son … well, he doesn’t really care for them, which is good, I guess, but sort of [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on September 13, 2010
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14 weeks
Here we are, 14 weeks after Laurel’s birth and wow, do things look different on the other side of the 3-month mark. Laurel is a healthy 15 pounds and change. She LOVES to eat, but only from the source. She will only take about 4 ounces of expressed milk over the course of about 8 [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on February 1, 2009
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Ten weeks
Why do they call it the babymoon? I’m so much happier now than I was when Laurel was first born. Those first three weeks or so were bad, bad, bad. There was lots of anger and sadness and pain and anxiety and anger and yelling and depression and frustration. That was not a happy time. [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on January 1, 2009
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“oh hai.”
That’s what Harrison said to a passing shopper at the grocery last night while I was perusing the slender pickings in the meat-substitute case (the boys were having chicken sausage with feta for dinner; my lactose intolerance led to my having “chik’n nuggets”). She was a pretty young woman, probably in her mid-20s, and with [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on April 1, 2008
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“don’t want it cart, mama!”
Harry is speaking in full sentences these days (as evidenced in the title of this post, taken from a conflict at the entrance to IKEA), and has picked up on his parents’ linguistic tics. Por ejemplo: Me (in front seat of car): Harry, whatcha doing? Harry (in carseat, quietly): Biscuits! Me: Are you listening to [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on November 25, 2007
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