Daring Young Mom

Overheard recently:
DYM:  Does anyone know where the scissors are?
Magoo:  [drawl]  Nooope. [fast]  I-know-I-know-I-know! [pause]  Whaaaat?
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DYM: [putting on Magoo's elbow pads]  It’s elbow time!
Magoo: I LOOOOVE ebow time!  … Wha’s ebow time?
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DYM:  We’re having some bacon for dinner.
Magoo:  I LOOOOOVE bacon! … Wha’s bacon?
Bonus line from Laylee:
Laylee:  It’s a good thing I washed my hands because [...]

What strange names do you call your kids’ food so they will eat it? We’re talking about creative nomenclature over at Parenting today.

**Update** I’m very obsessed with containers but I didn’t realize everyone else would like them as much as I do so I didn’t include a link. I got them here. I bought the 4oz size and they hold half a cup of spice each. You have to buy a minimum of 144. [...]

I want to write about our mind-popping trip to Disneyland, really I do. Much to share, there is. But now I’m back and there’s life and I’d rather write about what we’re doing now but I feel pressure to blog the big D so instead I blog nothing. And that’s just wrong.
Today [...]

Last week I found myself having the following conversation with Magoo:
Me: NO. We don’t put meat in our pockets!
Magoo: Oh. Hmm. We don’t put meat at our pock-ets?
Me: NO. Meat only goes in our mouths or on our plates.
Magoo [still holding the lunch meat an inch from his [...]

I’m holding a giveaway of a set of awesome GreenPans over at Seattle Mom Blogs.
They are the first line of cookware using a non-stick coating that’s free of toxic chemicals that can be released into your food and into the air. They can cook at temperatures up to 800F without releasing anything harmful. [...]

I bought these because they are unsulphured and unsweetened.

I bought these because they are made from BLUE CORN, which is corn that is BLUE. The chips may not be a whole food, but they only have 3 ingredients and I can count that high.

I bought this because a little good sharp cheddar goes a [...]

Last November around Thanksgiving I found myself in the Whole Body section of Whole Foods, wearing a beret I had crocheted by hand. The hat was supposed to be a present for my little sister for Christmas but it wasn’t Christmas yet and I thought I’d test it for fiber-poisoning, while covering my greasy [...]

I’m not sure if this is because she’s particularly industrious or because she thinks that if she helps in the kitchen chocolate chips might fall serendipitously into her mouth. [read more at Parenting]

It was THAT kind of day, the kind of day when dinner rolls around and you’re returning dishes to Linens and Things, dishes you bought earlier THAT day, while your Costco rotisserie chicken gets cold on the front seat of your van.
On the bright side, it’s a good thing the chicken’s cold because when the [...]