January 2012
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This was delicious
1 heaping spoonful peanut butter
4 pitted dates
1 cup milk
1 spoonful honey
Blend that together then add:
1 frozen banana
And enjoy.
(add the frozen banana after you’ve pulverized the dates because I found that the frozen banana just froze the dates and denied me some of their deliciousness in the end)
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All other things aside...
How is it possible that a man named Newt* has come this far in politics?
Whenever I hear anything about Mr. Newt, I think of the part in the Roald Dahl book Matilda where a classmate puts a newt into Ms. Trunchbull’s water pitcher and Matilda knocks it over with her brain power.
(*even if it is the nickname for Newton — which is not much better — it’s still the name he goes by).
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Why French children don't throw food →
Spend some time in restaurants in France and you may notice a curious thing. French children are unlikely to be squealing about what’s on their plate or struggling to get out of their chairs.
Indeed, they seem strangely happy to sit calmly at the table and even eat their greens while their parents enjoy a relaxed lunch. What causes this cultural peculiarity? Matthew Warren spoke to the ...
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Life with a toddler, part II
Josh: (looks at pillow)
Josh: What's this?
Sabine: Crusty snot.
Josh: It's wet.
Sabine: Then its fresh snot.
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“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and...”
– Andy Rooney
(via outcamethesun)
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“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Sheryl Crow — Strong Enough
(I still love this...
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Realistic resolutions for 2012
Bake regularly
Continue to avoid using the LOL acronym.
More time offline.
Do not become a scrap-booker.
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NYTimes Travel: 45 places to go in 2012. →
Dubrovnik is a city that’s been on my list for a while, but maybe we’ll get bumped for the some beaches in the Ukraine?
I want a beach holiday this year.
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“What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in...”
– Michele Bachmann.
Ah yes. The ever-growing threat of the Soviet… Union…
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YESSSSSSSS.
If you ask Luisa in English how big she’s going to be one day, she puts her hands up above her head to show us “THIS BIG”.
Ask her in German, and she does the same thing.
High five to us.
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What I listened to in 2011: Wilco — The Whole Love
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Owning the "Stay at home Mom" thing
I don’t refer to myself as a stay-at-home-mom. Maybe its the embarrassing use of the SAHM acronym. Maybe its because I still have a toe in my career, albeit in a motherly fashion. Maybe its because my generation of women was raised being told “You can be anything” so we feel like we have to be everything.
But today I’ve realised something. A few things.
I’ve never...
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December 2011
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Christmas Skype with Peter
Peter: Bine, How do you know so much about Santa Claus?
Sabine: I work for him.
Peter: WHAT!? What do you do for Santa Claus?
Sabine: I'm his ombudswoman*.
(It was so hard to say that without laughing, but I think I have definitely convinced my nephew that I am an ombudswoman for Santa's workshop).
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