Hunter's Artwork

I have a dining room table covered with Hunter's artwork.  I have read so many articles about how to only save a couple of pieces for every month.  I find that even hard to do.  I don't want to throw it out (oh the guilt!!!), but then how to save it and what to save becomes the issue. 

As we approach the new school year...I am left with the issue of last year.  I absolutely must get a handle on last year's artwork before he starts another year of making art every single day.  Now, mind you, I am not complaining about his artwork every day.  I love that he does it and walks in the door with such pride about what he's made.

So, I've committed that this is the week.  I am going to go to the neighborhood craft store and buy something that I can use to store his artistic creations by year.  Hopefully as he gets older, he can help me choose what to keep.

Things that make me smile

Everyone's kids do the funniest, cutest things.  It's the nature of children.  They are goofy as they are learning how to live life.  Lately my son, Hunter, has been saying "good job mom" to me.  It's really funny, he changes the tone of his voice and gets all serious.  I'm wondering who is saying good job to him -- I can only think it's at camp.  Not a bad thing to be learning at camp.  Yesterday he said "good job mom" and "way to go" as I was making a chocolate cake for a friend's birthday.  When he said "way to go" he did a little thumbs up.  Now, today, we've been doing "thumbs up" to eachother when Hunter accomplishes something - as a way to communicate "good job, way to go". 

I love this new learning he's doing.  It makes me smile.

It can be overwhelming!

I am trying to be healthy, feed my family lots of fruits and vegetables, but what are the right ones to feed them? Do I buy Organic or do I buy conventional. I have just read two articles about fruits and vegetables and their nutritional values and pesticide levels (http://www.nehealthadvisory.com/2010/06/how-to-buy-the-right-fruits-and-veggies and http://www.nehealthadvisory.com/2010/06/fruits-and-vegetables-frozen-versus-canned). It's hard to manage all of the information. There is so much to manage, yes, it may be organic, but has it lost it's nutritional value because it is coming from CA and I live in GA and that's 3,000 miles and weeks on a truck being exposed to air toxins, gasoline fumes and has been picked before being ripe so that it will last a couple of weeks on the transport and not be rotten before arriving in the store and landing in my kitchen. And now, you need to eat 43 peaches to just get the nutritional value you used to be able to get from eating 2 and that same peach now has 4,000 some odd pesticides you ingest into your system.


IT'S NO WONDER CANCER AND OTHER UNEXPLAINABLE DISEASES ARE ON THE RISE. IT'S NO WONDER FOOD TASTES DIFFERENT THAN IT USED TO.

So, I try to be a responsible mom and do what I can do.  Buy healthy food and wash it, peel it and get educated on the many ways to have non-toxic things in the house.  It's the whole picture and you do what you can without going crazy.