Since when is "Mr." okay?

Call me old school, but when did calling the President of the United States "Mr." okay?* I believe that a seat such as this deserves, regardless of your political leaning, the title of "President." Kind of like "Doctor" so-and-so, etc. When did we become so relaxed in addressing and referring to people?

*Not that it makes it better, but when President Obama had been elected and President Bush was on his way out, it made a little sense, but still not acceptable in my book.

Ironic?

CiBaby and I just got back from our local natural foods co-op, to which we belong. We picked up some tahini for our hummus, no-nitrate added, antibiotic free hotdogs (CiBaby had been begging for them for several days) and some of the finest local cream you will find on the earth...I'm going to make butter, just for fun.

As we were leaving the co-op and walking back to our car I noticed 3 of their employees standing outside of their rear door...smoking. A store that emphasizes healthy eating and living, where a lot of their employees are vegetarians if not vegans and here they are smoking?

Not sure what's worse...the occasional meat and non-organic, non-locally grown food or cigarettes. hmmmmm

Mom-genuity

I don't know about your children, but mine tends to waste a lot of food. Try as I might, at the end of the day there is a half eaten carrot, a half an apple, and various other fruits and veggies. Give her less you say? Nope, there's still always half left. It's one of her little quirks. To even think of putting them in the compost pile makes me cringe.

A few weeks ago my mother-in-law handed us her old juicer. To say I was thrilled to have another appliance might be much. We already have a great juicer, but it's big. Really big. Taking it out of it's sleeping spot, setting it up and then cleaning it is an all day task. So when I juice, I JUICE. But this juicer is much smaller and the blade is basically the same (I think it's the same maker, just under a different name).

A few days after she gave us the juicer I had an idea. After offering up the half eaten F&Vs to CiBaby and being completely shunned, I threw them into the juicer, and voila! Mega hit. It was such a hit that she even stole the cup of juice T-Daddy and I were sharing and called it her own.

Waste not, want not. That's what I call Mom-genuity.

Happy Valentine's Day!

We celebrated Valentine's Day with a Family Sushi Rolling Party.

The party started with CiBaby decorating cookies*


I was the whip-crackin' instructor at our party. Here we have G-Mama and Auntie making their rolls. Watch out for G-Mama though, you might be surprised at the contents. If you were looking for something other than Spam, you may have to look elsewhere!


Our sushi rolls turned out beautifully and very tasty. Along with our rolls we had tempura...they balance eachother out nutritionally, don't you think?

Either CiBaby's tastebuds have developed, or our plan to starve her before dinner worked. She ate 5! pieces of sushi among other things.

But then she was holding out for Bopa's fav...Cherry Berries on a Cloud, to which she proudly exclaimed..."I like it!"

It was a lovely evening spent with the people we love.

*After all of the finger licking, CiBaby was the proud owner of all of the cookies.

What a week!

Our week started off great! Sunday we went to the MIA for the Lantern Festival.

The event started off with a snooze in the lobby.


While CiBaby and T-Daddy snoozed I got a coffee and looked around in the gift shop and mapped out a plan of attack on the Chinese Zodiac art-hunt and activities.

CiBaby had a great time walking around and looking at the art.


This is when the week headed South. I seemed to have picked up a stomach virus. I had been wanting to lose a few holiday pounds, but this was ridiculous. Then T-Daddy seemed to have come down with it, but not nearly as bad...thankfully. And miraculously, CiBaby seemed to have dodged the bullet all together.

Towards the end of the week I was feeling a bit better, as long as I didn't really eat or drink much of anything, and both CiBaby and I were starting to get a bit stir-crazy. We had an opportunity to go to a friend's Valentine's Party. Well, I feel down her stairs.*

To top off the week I got pink eye AND a head cold. Whew. I sure hope this next week is better! Someone please tell me, when is it going to be summer again???

*Before you say I'm prone to falling down the stairs, stop. I am not. T-Daddy will even vouch for it. Every time, and there hasn't been that many, has been circumstantial (wet shoes on slippery steps, someone left a shoe on the stairs, and this time the carpet was really slippery). So there.

Nurse Ratched

This past week, T-Daddy and I have been ill. Apparently we have the stomach "flu." Thankfully CiBaby has been spared, and has been our nurse.

Here she is taking care of T-Daddy. Notice the oatmeal bar, juice, the lovie, a blanket and other paraphernalia.


What you can't see...or hear... is her yelling at T-Daddy to "Close your eyes or you're going to get in trouble!"* Also, before the above picture was taken she'd poked T-Daddy in the eye, and to fix it she covered his face with a towel, a blanket and the mail. Out of sight, out of mind I guess.

Either nursing is not in her future or she's really got to work on her bedside manner.

*Where she came up with this, neither one of us knows.

All dressed up and nowhere to go

What a Diva. She knows it's all about the accessories.
Who needs anything else?

Decorating Sense - give me your opinion!

Rarely do I ask for opinions here...I just give you mine. Kidding!

We are currently in the throws of our new and 2nd bathroom being completed and I've come to a crossroads...We have the tile, I designed the layout, but now...what color for the walls?

I've had a vision for a long time that I wanted this bathroom to feel like an oasis, a natural, organic like spa (as opposed to the stark white, sterile ones). Our fixtures are all white and the hardware is a brushed nickle. I also envision a dark wood piece as storage and some accents and of course, luxurious white towels, the kind where you could get lost as they are so thick and fluffy.

To get an idea of the amount of color in the room, the tiles below are used as such. Far left, is an accent border. The middle tile is the "field" tile, so this takes up most of the space, and the far right, the rocks are the "river" that runs through it.

So, I ask you...based on the tiles you see and the information above...What color for the walls?

Also, here is a sneak peek of the design, partially completed.