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according to amy wednesday july 20 2016 i decided to check on my blog tonight to see if it still existed it does do people still blog seems like social media has taken over but i never write long posts on facebook so i have missed writing here or maybe just writing in general posted by amydear at 10 26 pm no comments wednesday may 13 2015 the new normal kyle s been home for a week he raced across the country and made great time sleeping with family and one night in his car at a rest stop in indiana i know freaky and now he s here for good we are in a readjustment period i haven t slept well in a week because i am not used to someone next to me in bed particularly someone who makes noise kyle doesn t snore loudly or consistently but he does some weird breathing things and i get woken up i know i ll adjust but right now i m tired it s so nice having him around to help with driving and kid stuff in the evenings i was getting pretty tired i ve been cooking actual dinners and that makes me happy too the kids are mostly happy he s home but i think we were in a good place and routine and now it s a bit disrupted everyone needs to be kind and patient and we ll work out all the kinks we are almost done with a very busy 2 months of sports and activities track ends tomorrow and soccer ends in a couple of weeks i can feel summer inching its way here the pool is open and kyle took the kids last saturday when it was a lovely 80 degrees i got some herbs and seeds to start the garden we just need to prep it first the strawberries are ripening and the blueberries look good time to get the deck furniture out and put the hammock up i love this time of year can you believe it s may already wow here are some photos from our recent adventures hayden s been learning to high jump at track the coach says he s a natural finishing a tough 1500m race he got under 6 minutes which was his season goal jillian finishes a windy 1500m race at jv districts she had a great season and made her goal times don t take my picture kara s class did a dance to music from colombia for their fiesta cultural kara practiced every day the girls before the performance me with my munchkins on mother s day i had a great day and got amazing cards that made me happy kyle made a delicious dinner and my nap was epic in march hayden turned 12 and was ordained as a deacon in the aaronic priesthood he was so excited and looked so handsome it was a great day for him and our family hayden with uncle wayne kyle and his grandpa jim my dad posted by amydear at 9 49 pm 1 comment thursday april 30 2015 mini rant i ve spent a lot of time reading diet and exercise books trying to figure out how to make my body healthy and happy i call my dietician sister too often with questions and problems and she graciously tries to help me even though i usually sound crazy after trying a few diets and attempting to reset my metabolism with some success i ve made some tweaks to my diet and have learned which foods make me feel good and which i should avoid i guess i ve pinned enough recipes and workouts on pinterest that i now get sponsored suggested pins about diet and exercise most of these drive me crazy one of these pins shows the headline 5 foods never to eat again with a picture of a banana why should i never eat a banana again i can see if you were really trying to lose a lot of weight or be very careful about sugar intake you might avoid bananas but that would only be after eliminating every other source of sugar including dried fruits honey and artificial sweeteners but that s not me so i m going to eat bananas great source of potassium and very versatile not to mention portable i can t tell you the other 4 foods because i refuse to click on the pin the one i saw tonight was foods you should never eat after the age of 45 with a photo of a stack of bagels don t even get me started headlines like these and strange rules about foods we should never eat don t help solve the obesity and food obsession problems many people have although i ll probably choose to never eat a twinkie again it s not because i think they are not food they re not but because i don t like the way they taste any sort of extreme diet is probably not sustainable and not great for your body these silly headlines don t only apply to articles about diet though one of the reason i quit my writing job was because i was tired of having to write click bait headlines to get people interested in my articles it seemed disingenuous that word is hard to spell and ridiculous i know i m not the only person who is tired of reading 10 ways to make your husband fall in love with you instantly or 7 ways moms are secretly harming their children i hereby promise not to bombard you with any click bait titles or hyperbolic lists i ll just give you the advice i gave kara tonight vegetables should be the food group you eat the most of and sweets should be the food group you eat the least of and if you make it to age 80 you should eat whatever the heck you want that s my plan posted by amydear at 9 44 pm no comments tuesday april 28 2015 feeling rusty i feel clumsy as i try to write a post today writing is a skill that goes away if you don t use it i ve found i hope you don t mind my clumsiness as i try to blog again kyle was home for a long weekend as a surprise it was a much needed visit and now his time in boston is almost done have i mentioned before that kyle is a pretty smart dude on monday as he was talking on the phone to a colleague about a paper and i was cleaning the house i was reminded again of how much he knows about his work and how little i understand it s very specific and somewhat complicated stuff that man has a ph d and i spend my days vacuuming and cleaning up the same messes over and over again huh i know it s time for a change in my life in some ways at least and i m trying to figure out what i want to do kate starts full day kindergarten in the fall but i am still the main caretaker for the kids especially until kyle has tenure spring of 2016 my plan for now is to spend more time volunteering in the classroom to figure out if i want to teach again and to write more i m glad i don t have to work if i don t want to but sometimes i wish i had a little push to get some of my old ambition back young amy had all sorts of dreams and goals i reached a lot of them but i didn t realize how mundane a lot of my adult life would be i m ready to change that what dreams have you not realized yet posted by amydear at 9 39 pm 2 comments wednesday april 22 2015 is this thing on test test this my cyber friends is my first blog post of the year should it also be my last i quit my writing job in march because it was making me stressed out and unhappy so i am feeling a writing void in my life kyle still thinks i can write a best selling novel but i have my doubts until then maybe a few blog posts will get the words flowing again i shall endeavor to think of something exciting to say tomorrow posted by amydear at 8 54 pm 5 comments thursday november 20 2014 sassy 4 year old available to borrow think i might get in trouble if i put an ad like that on craigslist maybe i love kate michelle i do she is darling and precocious and funny and smart but i m done with her for a while if her father wasn t coming home tomorrow praise the heavens i would have to ship her off to one of her aunts for a few days just to regain my sanity lately she is miss whiny pants with an extra side of no whew when i tell her to go potty she tells me you don t know how the inside of my body is feeling true true but i do know you ve peed in your pants 3 times in the past week kate is super helpful and loves to be doing whatever i am doing she and i often cook dinner together and she does a great job it s just that i am googleplex times less efficient when she is with me every second of the day she does not play well by herself so my only respite when i want to do things like clean toilets or other such exciting and potentially hazardous jobs is to have her watch tv only she doesn t watch tv anymore she just watches shows on the ipad until i pry it away from her sticky little hands i realized i wasn t imagining how unable she is to entertain herself or unwilling until this week when kara was home sick with the stomach flu kara was a model patient getting to the bathroom to throw up on time all by herself and patiently resting in bed never asking for anything but gratefully accepting anything i offered her when kara woke me up at 4 00am to tell me she threw up she apologized for waking me and wanted to just put herself back to bed i had her stay home an extra day just to make sure she was all better and she played upstairs contentedly all by herself for several hours occasionally asking me to come see her latest creation i got more house cleaning and projects done with a sick kid at home than i usually do with kate home by the way kate was insistent on watching kara throw up asking her about her throw up asking her if she needed to throw up again and on and on luckily she finally went to afternoon preschool that day so kara and i could both get some rest this is not a kate is bad kara is good post it s just that miss kate is going through a phase and it s taking too long to get out of i m desperately trying not to spoil her even though she s the youngest and maybe even the cutest i don t give her what she wants all the time but she is very insistent on having what she wants and sometimes i just can t take it anymore but tonight i can take it because she s in bed i made up a very humorous just ask me song about how mommy s favorite time of the day is bedtime it involved some hip shaking i may be losing my mind and tomorrow night and for the next 7 nights after that her father can put her to bed posted by amydear at 10 24 pm 1 comment older posts home subscribe to posts atom search this blog the veggie bunch august 2011 why veggie bunch this blog stars our four children bean pea asparagus and sprout amydear likes all things green enjoys gardening and likes to encourage rampant vegetable eating kyle resembles a green bean the children get their 5 servings a day amy gets about 9 we are a veggie bunch welcome to my blog i m a mom a runner an aspiring chef a little bit ocd and a wife my family and i currently live in oregon where my husband is a professor some of my favorite things are dark chocolate a good book ice cream and popcorn my kids are all terrific and my husband is not only witty but pretty good looking too i m trying to eat less meat more whole grains and tone up my life is pretty blessed and i m happy to share it with you my peeps thanks peeps popular posts smorgasbord the new normal practically perfect a new veggie in the bunch no title waiting game feeding sprout one hot photo shoot taste of tuesday baking with agave nectar feeling rusty currently reading find me on goodreads amypete s bookshelf read more of amypete s 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