A friend of mine who reads the blog must have read the post I wrote about the special journals I started keeping with the kids, because as I was leaving swim practice last night she pulled me aside and she said to me, “If you want a way to connect with the kids, try sharing the […]
Archives for May 2016
10 Things I Learned in My First Week on Whole30
10 Things I Learned in My First Week on Whole30 1.Have a plan of attack. I started Day 1 with nothing prepped and my kitchen looking like this, and it definitely didn’t help. 2. You can eat a shitload of food on this program. It just can’t be crap. And how f***ing good does that look, […]
Mom, what if I don’t get into the high class?
Number 3 is in the middle of standardized testing at school. He came home last week really worried. “Mom, my teacher told me that if we didn’t get a high score we wouldn’t get put in the high classes next year.” Ugh. “But she said if we aren’t in a high class one year, we can […]
Next stop, Shark Tank.
It’s baseball season which means that Number 4 has been nagging me incessantly for the past three weeks about setting up a lemonade stand at her brothers’ baseball games to make money. I find her persistence both admirable and really fucking annoying. I told her I would help her out, but that I wouldn’t front her […]
I may be seriously disturbed. But not in that way.
Last night I wrote a post about how I decided to do the Whole 30 for a few reasons, the main one being because I really, really, really want to change my eating habits. I expected to read comments about 1) how much people loved Whole 30, and 2) how hard people thought it was […]
Whole 30. I’m doing it. Here’s why (and it’s not because bikini season is upon us).
I started the Whole 30 Program on Monday. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, The Whole 30 is “a short-term nutritional reset, designed to help you put an end to unhealthy cravings and habits, restore a healthy metabolism, heal your digestive tract, and balance your immune system.” I don’t have any agreement […]