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Let Your Heart Be Light
Merry Christmas, everyone! Much love and health and happiness to you all. -
Pumpkins and the Best Thanksgiving Letter Ever
Gardening is not really my thing. I want it to be – I like to cook and love the idea of growing my own food, and visions of working the soil in the sun and bringing in the harvest under a fall sky appeal to me. And I’ve tried. Really, I have. Window planters of [...] -
Post-Halloween Candy and the Sugarplum Fairy
(Photo by stock.xchng user nazreth.) I’d estimate I fall in the *moderate* range when it comes to parenting and food obsession. I try to buy local and from farms and companies that follow organic growing methods even if they don’t carry the actual certification. Related, I like to know where my food comes from. Also, [...] -
Halloween Snow and DIY Facepaint
It’s Halloween this Saturday, and you know what means: Time for the traditional October blizzard. Apparently. Living in Colorado after 20 years in Florida is an education everyday, I tell you. This was my backyard at noon today, and the snow has piled even higher since then. Actually and according to the local news, this [...] -
Spookiness, Both Financial and Decorative
(My front door, plus Halloween decorations. Oddly appropriate in this market, don’t you think?) As if economy headlines and the probability of selling my house and getting to Denver anytime soon couldn’t get worse, Wachovia’s the latest victim of the financial crisis, no one likes the bailout bill, and although I admit I don’t actually [...] -
Apple Muffins for Christmas Morning
New here and wondering why an asthma blog is featuring recipes? Read how apples maybe help with asthma inflammation and the allergic response first. Now the downside of apples lies in their regular appearance on the list of top 5 most contaminated fruits. Peaches, pears, and strawberries fill the other top fruit slots, and although [...] -
I Make My Own Halloween Face Paint. No, Really.
I wouldn’t say having a kid with asthma has a whole lot of advantages. Plus, I’m less a silver lining kind of woman than I am a glass-is-half-nothing-because-it-is-bone-dry one. Every so often, though, I do step out of my cloud of pessimism and Why My Kid? mode to feel a bit of gratitude for lessons [...]
