“Dust in our eyes our own boots kicked up. Heartsick we nursed along the way we picked up. You may not see it when it’s sticking to your skin, but we’re better off for all that we let in.” — Emily Sailers of the Indigo Girls I’ve had a lot of dust (and smoke) in my eyes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘breakfast’
Week 21: Spring fever & dinner for 12
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged Africa, breakfast, Congo Restoration, schedule, Zimbabwe on March 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Week 18: Four months down
Posted in dinner, family dinner, tagged breakfast, dinner, family dinner, Half the Sky on March 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” ~ Voltaire Amen! Today marks the four-month anniversary of this blog project. Four months of eating one meal together every day (except for one slip-up, for which we made amends the next day). Four [...]
Week 17: Seven more days of deprivation
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged Africa, breakfast, bringing dinner back, Congo Restoration, dinner, family dinner, rock climbing, schedule, Whole Foods on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one’s spirits strong even when one’s body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.” — Nelson [...]
The two-minute breakfast
Posted in family dinner, tagged breakfast, rock climbing on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“I’d like mornings better if they started an hour later.” — Unknown This was our Saturday morning: 8:15 am: I’m up. Check email. Sawyer gets up and reads. Clyde and Noah sleep. 8:30 am: Time to wake the sleeping pre-teen, who didn’t get to bed ’til 11:20 pm (or at least sent his last text [...]
Week 14
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, diet, family dinner, rock climbing, Whole Foods on February 1, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.” — John Kenneth Galbraith (author of The Affluent Society) And so, a month tardy by American standards, I have started Diet No. 2,765. Or thereabouts. The focus is the Kelly Challenge, a monthlong challenge Noah’s rock climbing team does annually. No [...]
Week 12
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, dinner, family dinner, pancakes on January 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.” — Robert Morley There will be minimal cooking this week (why is cooking for three is so much less stressful than four?). And much of what is cooked will be prepared by Noah, who won the highly competitive Snarky Teenager of [...]
The great grilled cheese standoff
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, dinner, pre-teen, Whole Foods on January 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“The food you buy is crap.” — Noah on this less-than-idyllic Sunday afternoon Oy. The lastest pre-teen battle started with a request to go to the mall this afternoon, catch a movie with friends, and hang out a bit. All without parents, he casually pitched, as if he was asking to go upstairs and read [...]
A miserable breakfast
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, fighting on January 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“Kiss my grits” — Flo, the favorite waitress of anyone who grew up in the ’70s Sometimes a Friday morning family breakfast can be a wonderful way to start your day. Sometimes it makes you wish you could just wake up in an empty apartment with nothing but Pop-Tarts, a papasan chair, and a cat. [...]
Week 11
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, meal planning, schedule on January 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“My grandmother was a tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.” — Rita Rudner My grandmother is also a tough woman — tough to be very close to. My mom’s mom moved to Texas to be closer to all of us (and away from Illinois winters) 10 years ago. [...]
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