Season eating

Seasons form the natural backdrop for eating. All of the World's Healthiest Foods are seasonal. Picture your vegetable garden in the dead of winter. Now imagine this same garden on a sunny, summer day. How different things are during these two seasons.

For ecologists, seasons are considered a source of natural diversity. Changes in growing conditions from spring to summer or fall to winter are essential for balancing the earth's resources and its life forms. But today it's so easy for us to forget about seasons when we eat. Modern food processing and worldwide distribution of food make foods available year-round, and grocery stores shelves look much the same in December as they do in July.

I still refuse to eat asperagus (winter harvest veggie) any time of year.

Tea Party anyone

When I met my husband he was not a politics guy. Thought he did not matter. He is only one voice...why would anyone care? Well, I could never date let alone marry a man who was not polically passionate. I told him so. He accepted the challenge.

This month will mark our having been a couple for 10 years. He has gone from an Independent to a Libertarian. And let me tell you... he is a a politics guy now. He even went so far as to write to Gov Patterson today. And I am sure it was a sweet little note.

He has begun to watch Fox News, Glenn Beck and enjoy it.

This is not the man I started dating in April 1999.

And I am glad. :)

Cry baby

My son is in his room right now. He is crying. We area cry-it-out family when it comes to bed time and naps. My son is such an easy baby. And that makes it so hard to hear him cry. I did check on him and make sure he was ok. He is ok. :)

I know a mom who slept in her daughters room until recently. She is going to be 2 in May. The house is silent while this child sleeps. I don't agree with that for my own children but if that works for her mom and dad...then ok. But is it more for the benefit of the baby or the parents? With a second child due in May, how will this rock everyones world?

I don't think I am a better mom because I let my child cry. But I do wonder how different these children will be as a result of these differences.