Ready to invest some time in spring cleaning but don’t want to inhale or touch all the chemicals? Or maybe, like me, you have a very curious toddler who likes to look in all your drawers and cabinets and prefer to be safe than sorry. I try to keep everything out of reach but I still [...]

Easter didn’t turn out how I thought it would. It all started yesterday when I thought the Easter egg hunt at the Y was at 1 and Annabelle and I set off for the farmers market at 9:30am. We had a great morning and I planned on putting her down for a nap, going to [...]

It seems like every holiday is another excuse to give kids candy. Cookies for Christmas, chocolate for Valentines Day and now jelly beans and chocolate bunnies for Easter.  I won’t give Annabelle a basket revolving around highly processed sugar filled treats made with refined flour and high fructose corn syrup.  There are plenty of other [...]

I’m a chocoholic. Annabelle will do anything for some good guacamole (especially from Chipotle). Put our two loves together and you’ve got Avocado Chocolate Pudding. Sound disgusting? I promise it’s actually delicious, even Andrew approved. You probably won’t believe me until you try it though. I found a recipe for chocolate frosting using avocado when [...]

Yes, I’m aware that it’s not fall and that pumpkin isn’t really an intuitive choice at this time of year. What can I say, I like pumpkin, it’s healthy, it’s tasty, it’s versatile and it’s a great way to sneak some extra vitamins into my family’s snacks. It’s not a spring food but I’m ok [...]

About a year ago when Annabelle was just a few weeks old I had a conversation about breastfeeding. I was sitting in my rocker nursing my newborn baby and was asked how long I was going to breast feed. “If all goes well I hope to do it for a year”. At that time that [...]

Nowadays being bilingual is extremley important. By the time Annabelle grows up it will probably be a deciding factor when fighting it out for a job. When I interviewed for my first teaching position being fluent in Spanish is what got me the job during a hiring freeze. I’m lucky to have been exposed to [...]

Annabelle’s molars are coming in! Oh fun times! Molars are huge and the pain that comes with them seems to huge as well. When Annabelle’s first molar came in it was pretty rough, for her and for those around her. There was a lot of crying, screaming, diarrhea, chewing on everything. It was all the [...]

The worst part of my day is always having to drop Annabelle off for daycare. You’d think I’d be used to it by now, and in a way I am, but it doesn’t make it any easier. I hate not knowing what she’s doing, how she’s spending her days and missing big milestones, like taking [...]

We are a fat phobic nation. I almost feel like it’s controversial to talk about fat because so many people are afraid of it. We’re afraid of being fat and we’re afraid of eating fat. So many people steam their veggies just because they don’t want to use fat to cook them in, or they [...]