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Changes
I’m not exactly sure what prompted the change, but we did some major rearranging around our house this weekend. It might have been the fact that I noticed Tate’s bed was getting too small for him. He’s been sleeping on a mattress on the floor in his room since a couple months after his birth. We’ve followed the Montessori approach of using a floor bed and making the rest of the room as safe as a crib would be. It’s worked really well for Tate (and worked well for Henry, too).
But Tate is a big boy, and at 16 months, he is outgrowing his mattress. Our original plan was… Read More -
Vegetarian Crockpot Meals
I’m really struggling with cooking meals lately. My meal-planning system still works well, and I manage to go shopping each week, but I really, really don’t want to cook once I get home from a long day at work. I’m sick of the meal-planning kits from Greenling, and I feel too guilty about eating frozen food all the time (although Indian night is really tasty!).My approach for this week was to prep everything on Sunday and then put it in the crockpot in the morning. Here’s the website I followed in order to make the following meals:- Stuffed peppers
- Mushroom, lentil and barley stew
- Spinach and artichoke casserole
- Vegetarian
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Habits
I picked up a copy of The Happiness Project from our Little Free Library at school. I read the first chapter and found it to be mostly annoying. I think it’s a classic case of not liking the narrator because she reminds me of what I don’t like about myself.I want to be the kind of person who finds the right balance between identifying the things I want to improve while simultaneously celebrating who I am and where I am in the moment. I do believe that striving and growing are worthwhile endeavors, but I don’t want to be so consumed with striving and growing (which is inherently deficit-based)… Read More
