Gourmet Baby: Yes, I Did Make a Breastmilk Smoothie.

After Noah’s obvious frozen yogurt love last weekend, Chris had an epiphany: I should make Noah his own FroYo, Baby-Kosher-Style. Baby-Kosher-Style = made with frozen breastmilk. Don’t worry – I’m not about to get all crazy.  My byproducts will not be made into breastmilk cheese or anything curdish like that, but the thought of making […]

The Diet Bearability Report: Two Months.

On Saturday, Chris and I celebrated two months of our Lose It diet plan with a combined weight loss of 39.6 pounds. (The total being 39.6 completely killed me, seeing as how 40.0 in 2 months would have been such a beautifully neat and clean number.  I suggested cutting off my arm – or maybe […]

What You’ve Done for Alabama.

If anyone still doesn’t believe that “Internet Friends” are just as real as “In Real Life Friends”, then they’ve never been in a crisis situation. To help with tornado relief, you have ordered over $1,200 of items off of the Christian Service Mission’s Amazon Wish List (you’re part of the reason that UPS had to […]

Millions of Updates, Updates for You.

My blog posts of late have been a confusing tangle of rabbit trails that lead to nothing but loose ends. And I despise loose ends nearly as much as I despise continuity issues. (Such as, why can Tinkerbell make anything fly in the rain but herself?  Even if her wings are wet, couldn’t she just […]

Relief Updates…and…Couponing Advice Needed!

I’ve been able to share about some new Tornado relief options on two other blogs lately, so I wanted to update here as well. And I know that I’m talking a LOT about our tornadoes right now – I hope you’ll understand and bear with me – but that’s quite simply our life right now.  […]

My (Three Day) Life as a Minivanning Mommy.

Due to obvious reasons, I began my Grand Minivan Challenge two days late. On Friday, I packed up the two kids and headed to pick up our borrowed ride from Serra Honda. Ali wasn’t quite understanding the concept of a car store, so I got grilled all the way there… “So how are we going […]

How To Be a Tornado Relief Hero By Using Social Media.

We all know that in the past, disaster relief has been a disaster.  Katrina, Ivan, the Oil Spills – they’ve all been a nightmare of unhelpful help.  There’s administration.  And paperwork.  And too many people wanting to help with not enough people being able to point them in a direction.  And politics – different relief […]

My “How to Help” Recommendations.

I’m going to go back to “normal” blogging next week, although I’ll still be, I’m sure, in tornado-mindset personally. However, many of you have asked how you can help, so I wanted to compile a list of a few easy ways to help the many hurting people of our state. But first, here is a […]

How Geeks Lose Weight.

For the past four months, I’ve been eating whatever I jolly well pleased, under the OBVIOUS assumption that all of the calories were going straight to Noah. And really, it worked for me. …for a very short while. Then I quit losing…and I actually started to gain weight. Wait.  What??  I just had a baby! […]

Explosions, of the Peep Variety.

People are passionate about their Easter Candy Experience. I had no idea of this phenomenon until I wrote my thesis on Cadbury Mini Eggs, and watched it become my most popular post of the month.  But the most fascinating concept that came out of that post was…exploding Peeps. I knew that Peeps were a well-experimented-on […]