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    Meals for a Year: Recipe Request

    The meal planning club is officially on! I am very grateful to be connected to so many wonderful kindred spirits. We had more than 11 people express interest, so I looked at the submission time and the preference for a particular month to whittle it down. I also split my month with Paige, so that we could have one more person in the group and I would have a little more time for the coordination and administration of this process.

    Our deadline is to have everything completed and organized in a user-friendly way by December 1. That way, we’ll be ready to start cooking “fast and fresh” vegetarian meals once

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    Homemade Baby Food!

    Henry (right) and his best friend Ellie Cate (left)
    Our baby food making party was a huge success! I have to confess that I was a little stressed about how it would turn out at various points during the process.

    First, I had the opportunity to attend a day and a half of professional development related to charter schools, which meant that I enrolled Henry in day care during that time. Since I hate pumping and have committed to feeding Henry directly for approximately a year, it meant that I had to leave the training every three hours to go feed him. Of course the stress that comes from leaving

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    Batch Food Party

    The babysitting co-op is going well, and I’m excited about the baby food making party this Saturday. Next up:

    A Batch Cooking Group

    I love this idea (via Sew Liberated).

    But perhaps the group should have eight people, so we would each have two meals a week already prepared and ready to go?

    Regardless, I’ve had to table this idea for now (pun intended?). I am not doing much of anything this month except trying to sell our house and keep my blogs running and take care of Henry who only wants to spend his awake time pulling up on me. I’ve added it to my Life Binder as

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