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{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

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Happiest of weekends to you!

sugar ::

Sometimes, as any good mother should, I worry about what my kids eat.  And sometimes, I worry that perhaps all my children eat is sugar.  As a disclaimer, I want it put right out there that we don't buy junk food.  My kids don't drink soda and neither of them have ever had a candy bar.  Of any sort.  (Thank my lucky star for the peanut allergies.  Right.  So not.)  Anyway.   I cook from scratch.  I bake.  (A lot, which doesn't help the sugar business, but I like to bake.  So there.)  We garden, we can veggies (and I do mean we, but that's another whole post entirely) and belong to an organic farm's CSA.  We break out the kool-aid only on special days when I have to bribe my son to come home.  (He likes to get out, unlike his parents.) 

So in a nutshell, we try to be healthy people.  But my daughter seems to eat around food to find sugar.  For instance, this is what she's eaten in the last 24 hours:

Supper:  meatballs made from our own beef with a lovely sauce from this lovely new cookbook I just bought.  (She ate the sauce off the top.  Technically, it was food but it did contain a rather high sugar ratio, if you wanted to waste your time breaking it all down.)  Then she was full, but did come around in time to have some brownies with mocha frosting, also from this book, which is my new kitchen love. 

Breakfast:  homemade, whole wheat biscuit with jelly made from my strawberries out in the ole' bed behind the garage.  (She just licked the jelly off just like it never had jelly on it.  It's an art form, really.  I think it's genetic.  She gets it from me - I am really good at eating the frosting off donuts.) 

Mid-morning snack:  cookie dough.   (from scratch, mind you, which automatically lowers the sugar content)

Lunch:  cookies from said dough.  Two, I believe.

And so here we are.

The hair really has nothing to do with sugar, by the way.  It looks that way quite frequently - it's an unruly bunch of locks. 

So now that I've posted all this, I've come to the conclusion that she's just a smart eater and if she spends that much time picking around her food then she's probably just fine. 

Which is good, because she's not even the child in this house that would trade a limb for sugar.  You see I have my work cut out for me. 

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That's all I have right now. 

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

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Happy reading, to you and all your little skunks!

when it's too hot ::

The only thing, really, when it's so hot is to just get wet.  We joined family to take in a little late afternoon tubing at a favorite creek haunt.  I hadn't been there for so many years, but nothing had changed - still such very cooold water and still so very fun!

And the day was made even better with a handy-dandy, whatchamacallit sand toy that totally beat the pants off tubing.  (Thanks, Allens!) 

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

Happy weekend!