Friday, December 03, 2010

Quick thoughts on food
Our diets have taken a strange turn in the past few weeks. 
I, for one, would prefer to eat nothing but meat and fatty food.   I think about bacon constantly.  For lunch today, I ordered and devoured my very first double bacon cheeseburger ever.  Not only did I eat it faster that you would believe possible, but I almost immediately wished that I had another one.  I exercised an immense amount of willpower and did not get a second burger.  I went home and ate tortilla chips dipped in sour cream instead.
At the same time, the girls are fixated on vegetables.  Broccoli, green beans, you name it.  I never in my life would have imagined a parent actually saying to a child at the dinner table: "If you want more broccoli, you have to eat some of your steak."  This happens, with some variation (with green beans and chicken, for example) several times a week.  Maybe there is some sort of nutritive osmosis at work here, and the kids and I just have to balance out between the three of us somehow.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Follow up...
Just wanted to share that, amazingly, the whole Christmas card promotion things really worked.  And you can expect a really snazzy card in the mail- I just ordered them. 
I am always suspicious of these sorts of promotions, because I  have nagging doubts that they are just some bizarre scam or joke, like those emails that ask you to forward to 12 people OR SOMETHING HORRIBLE WILL HAPPEN TO YOU.   Really, it doesn't.  So, in this case, something good actually came out of it.  And I am pretty pleased.  And you will be too, when you see the girls' smiling faces.
Of course, all of this supposes that I have the energy to address the cards and buy stamps and mail them out.  This has to fit into my very challenging requirement of sleeping as much as possible.  The past two days after a week off  for Thanksgiving break have been hard.  I mean, how am I expected to function on less than 10 hours of sleep?  Seriously?