What a great week!
I spent the early part of the week in Boston for a few days of training. The days were jammed packed with meetings and information, but every time I go for training, I walk away so inspired and stirred up with expectancy for great things. This trip proved the same.
We had some friends over for dinner on Thursday night.. one of our topics was the movie Food Inc. I haven't seen it, but hearing about it made me sick to my stomach. We have slowly been adopting more organic foods into our diet and less meats. Our conversation made me think more and we may go ahead and make the switch over. We have a brand new co-op opening up a few minutes from our place, so we are going to check it out and look into joining. I am on board with supporting local farmers and butchers, so I am excited to see what the Willy St Co-op has to offer.
Today I had my mom's group and it is always a delight to get together with these women. Seriously, I know many moms struggle with finding other mom friends, due to the competitiveness between parents. Not the case at all here. These moms are real and honest and I love being around them.
Besides that, I have been playing with Liliana, cooking, catching up from being out of town and catching up with phone calls to some friends.
Now, off to bed.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Halloween Candy
I remember as a kid, the Post Halloween Swap.
I would dump out all my candy and separate into piles:
Pile 1- Items I would promptly throw away, like those plastic spider rings.
Pile 2- Good candy, like Snickers or Reeses Peanut Butter cups
Pile 3- Candy I didn't prefer, but could possibly be used to trade at school the next day
Last night when we were trick or treating with the girls, we noticed that they were passing up the good candy and going for Pile 1 or Pile 3 stuff. So, we decided to coach them.
At one house I went up with Liliana and Lily's uncle came with her up to the door. In the bowl were a variety of items.
ME: "Liliana, look at the Snickers! Should we pick that one?"
LILIANA: "Sure". (In goes the Snickers).
LILY's UNCLE: "Lily, how about a Reeses Peanut Butter cup?"
LILY: "No." (She grabbed one of those round white and red after dinner peppermints).
We were cracking up at the end of the driveway when we told everyone else. Then it became this game to see what kind of candy we could get the girls to pick. We were scheming how to get the good stuff. Hilarious.
So, all to say- this morning we have our 3 piles. Fortunately we stepped in with our "candy coaching" in the nick of time last night to make sure we had plenty Pile 2 candies!
I would dump out all my candy and separate into piles:
Pile 1- Items I would promptly throw away, like those plastic spider rings.
Pile 2- Good candy, like Snickers or Reeses Peanut Butter cups
Pile 3- Candy I didn't prefer, but could possibly be used to trade at school the next day
Last night when we were trick or treating with the girls, we noticed that they were passing up the good candy and going for Pile 1 or Pile 3 stuff. So, we decided to coach them.
At one house I went up with Liliana and Lily's uncle came with her up to the door. In the bowl were a variety of items.
ME: "Liliana, look at the Snickers! Should we pick that one?"
LILIANA: "Sure". (In goes the Snickers).
LILY's UNCLE: "Lily, how about a Reeses Peanut Butter cup?"
LILY: "No." (She grabbed one of those round white and red after dinner peppermints).
We were cracking up at the end of the driveway when we told everyone else. Then it became this game to see what kind of candy we could get the girls to pick. We were scheming how to get the good stuff. Hilarious.
So, all to say- this morning we have our 3 piles. Fortunately we stepped in with our "candy coaching" in the nick of time last night to make sure we had plenty Pile 2 candies!
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