Archive for May, 2011
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011Conversations with Atticus go something like this: “Atticus, what’s this?” pointing to car “Dis.” “Atticus, what’s that?” pointing to ball ” Dat.” Soon that will change and I know he will teach me lots of things. Yesterday I was listening to NPR-I’ve become a bit of a junkie- and people were emailing and calling [...]
Apparently I’m not “at one with nature”
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011Sunday we learned that wee Atticus is the Zen Master of cicadas. One landed on the tip of his finger and he just smiled at it before jerking his hand forward to send the buggy on his way. I, on the other hand, haven’t been so lucky with these noisy suckers. Yesterday afternoon Atticus were [...]
Our Weekend Recap
Monday, May 23rd, 2011I know I typically do a post about our Saturday morning trip to the Farmer’s Market, but this weekend was a bit of an anomaly. Let’s start with Friday evening. We (the three of us, plus our neighbor) went to the Night Market. We ate tons of food from B&C (Bacon and Caviar) Bar-B-Que. Some [...]
I have a love/hate relationship…
Thursday, May 19th, 2011with sippy cups! But, before I begin my little rant, I have news! Instead of writing about our Wednesday trips to the East Nashville Farmers Market here, I’ll be writing about them on the ENFM website/blog! You’ll have to go check it out! Ok, “commercial break over” as a former ballet teacher would say. Sippy [...]
Wordless Wednesday
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011Success!
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011I’m happy to report that I’m not the composting failure I thought I was! You have no idea how excited I am about this. It’s epic. Seriously! Last fall Mark built me some compost “stalls” out of old pallets. I was having so much trouble with my spinning barrel that I thought piles would be [...]
The Firmentation Farm
Monday, May 16th, 2011It’s no new news that my kitchen is occasionally used as a laboratory. In the last couple of months I’ve gone from just mixing “chemical” creations to growing living things! Some have become staples in our kitchen and others have just fallen into back-of-the-fridge-purgatory. My first fermenting project was sourdough starter. Not just any sourdough, [...]
Farmer’s Market 5/14/11
Saturday, May 14th, 2011This week we brought our friends with us to the farmer’s market! Actually, they met us there, but yeah. You see Atticus is destined to marry Sweet Charlotte so it is really important for her mom, Fred, and I to make sure the two kiddos see each other lots and lots. It rained all night [...]
If only he had three feet
Friday, May 13th, 2011Lately Atticus has become obsessed with his shoes. He’ll bring one to me and say “shooshoo” while trying to lift one foot. Of course I help him put it on. Then he’ll bring me the other shoe and again “shooshoo,” so we put on the other shoe. Usually, he’ll go on his merry way wearing [...]
It’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
Thursday, May 12th, 2011The eczema, that is. We took Atticus to his pediatric dermatology appointment yesterday. We brought with us a huge list of questions and observations that’s we’d been making since his skin flared up over the weekend. It was great that he saw the same nurse practitioner again because she is super nice and listened to [...]