Monthly Archives: April 2012

How to Make Kids Like Vegetables

April 30th, 2012

Q: How do you make kids like vegetables? A: You plant a garden and have the kids grow the vegetables themselves. This was the answer someone gave me. This completely did not work. In March, we started this little backyard garden. Squash, early pumpkins, okra, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers. I’ve tried all of these things [...]

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Sometimes You’ve Just Got To Laugh…

April 27th, 2012

And laugh we did on Wednesday night. I love this photo. Me and Victor (Jenny‘s husband) laughing along with 350 others as she did her reading in Austin at Book People… right after she found out she is #1 on the NYT Best Seller list. The whole evening was such a celebration! These are the things [...]

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Mom 2.0 is in 5 Minutes.

April 25th, 2012

So as you may or may not know, I’m part of a team that puts on this conference every year called the Mom 2.0 Summit. It’s our fourth year, and this time it’s in Miami. Every year, the conference sort of takes on a life of its own…with different people involved (you can see the [...]

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Spring: Day 26 1/2. The Last 38 Hours.

April 16th, 2012

So I’m sitting here, trying to figure out how to be clever, and I just don’t have it in me this morning. I’m still spinning from the last 38 hours. So I’ll just tell you about them… You see, right now I’m living in a state of extremes. I don’t know if it’s timing, or star [...]

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I’m Addicted to Carbs

April 11th, 2012

I think it’s fairly well documented that I love carbs. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned however that I come from a long line of people who loved carbs…and who had diabetes and heart disease and all manner of things, and you’ll not I’m using the past tense, because they’re no longer here. I take [...]

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Happy Easter!

April 8th, 2012

Be good to one another.

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Spring: Day 17. Happy (Good) Friday.

April 6th, 2012

(Photos from Our Best Bites) And a very merry Passover to you too. I’m sad to be missing Seder dinner at Laurie Smithwick‘s house. Because, as you may remember, I’m attempting to not eat carbs this Easter, and also mostly because I’m in Texas, not North Carolina, where this Seder dinner is occurring.   So I’m [...]

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I’m Growing Salsa on Our Back Patio

April 3rd, 2012

As I mentioned yesterday, we have been eating like crap all winter long in this house. So dumb. We had a mild winter across the country, but you wouldn’t know it the way we were pounding macaroni and cheese around here. Like we were storing up for God knows what. But now that the weather [...]

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I’m Turning Over a New Leaf.

April 2nd, 2012

I might have mentioned that I’ve basically been on an all-carb diet since about October. But no more. The hot weather means less clothing and that means more vegetables. It’s basic math. Also, we’re growing lots of things in the back yard. And they’re all completely legal. And full of nutrients. I’m going to be [...]

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