Meta tags:

Headings (most frequently used words):

october, 2013, my, the, thursday, 10, posts, of, in, blog, children, august, 28, 2014, sunday, 13, monday, saturday, friday, tuesday, website, recent, some, favorite, nook, topics, interest, archive, about, me, search, this, staying, connected, could, have, fed, 000bc, dog, family, what, will, future, be, like, for, recycling, that, prescription, things, we, ask, shutting, down,

Text of the page (most frequently used words):
the (88), and (66), this (27), for (23), our (21), but (21), with (18), #children (16), have (16), that (12), maybe (12), 2009 (11), time (11), 2011 (10), blog (10), will (10), 2013 (9), over (9), about (8), comments (8), one (8), like (8), you (8), 000bc (8), may (7), life (7), labels (7), day (7), your (7), what (7), are (7), not (7), her (7), 2008 (6), 2012 (6), writing (6), voice (6), future (6), down (6), from (6), october (6), all (6), doctor (6), first (6), mama (5), off (5), some (5), they (5), now (5), when (5), make (5), their (5), them (5), more (5), would (5), take (5), antibiotic (5), how (5), years (5), again (5), food (5), think (5), nook (4), apr (4), jun (4), jul (4), aug (4), sep (4), family (4), writer (4), good (4), other (4), wonder (4), these (4), out (4), know (4), girls (4), get (4), could (4), prescription (4), said (4), antibiotics (4), should (4), world (4), daughter (4), stasha (4), foods (4), been (4), zook (3), she (3), oct (3), photography (3), personal (3), lists (3), hooks (3), mom (3), posts (3), often (3), internet (3), middle (3), shut (3), any (3), come (3), every (3), iou (3), without (3), shutdown (3), can (3), don (3), week (3), myself (3), telling (3), daughters (3), just (3), please (3), things (3), table (3), back (3), cough (3), away (3), because (3), bacteria (3), always (3), minds (3), believe (3), cell (3), love (3), monday (3), since (3), northwestmommy (3), dog (3), case (3), short (3), book (2), visit (2), bookstore (2), com (2), writes (2), jan (2), feb (2), mar (2), nov (2), 2010 (2), dec (2), 2014 (2), archive (2), thinking (2), nature (2), bloggers (2), books (2), wants (2), pie (2), absolutely (2), narcissism (2), favorite (2), home (2), shutting (2), mind (2), turns (2), fingers (2), little (2), seen (2), words (2), another (2), big (2), government (2), has (2), work (2), won (2), last (2), federal (2), many (2), others (2), open (2), worry (2), begin (2), ask (2), filled (2), statements (2), shouldn (2), thought (2), turn (2), find (2), into (2), too (2), moment (2), before (2), then (2), did (2), leave (2), where (2), shoes (2), milk (2), yet (2), third (2), eat (2), peas (2), office (2), year (2), throat (2), happy (2), once (2), prescribing (2), after (2), range (2), urine (2), weeks (2), different (2), alright (2), doctors (2), let (2), than (2), need (2), fixes (2), solutions (2), answers (2), available (2), digital (2), read (2), exposure (2), much (2), never (2), teach (2), creativity (2), stop (2), phone (2), unplug (2), place (2), hard (2), today (2), return (2), began (2), listicles (2), beauty (2), movie (2), want (2), pass (2), thursday (2), list (2), grocery (2), see (2), dinner (2), started (2), few (2), thank (2), ancestors (2), century (2), didn (2), blood (2), 3000bc (2), ice (2), sugar (2), until (2), cucumbers (2), who (2), wine (2), beer (2), oldest (2), was (2), bread (2), chocolate (2), cherries (2), almonds (2), ago (2), around (2), two (2), second (2), copyright, designed, designs, amazon, widgets, free, counters, note, search, view, complete, profile, wordless, wednesday, twister, outside, box, tgifs, science, scavenger, hunt, publications, kat, workshop, literature, guest, exercises, contests, blogging, enough, awards, tale, topics, interest, vinobaby, bloggess, momma, mothers, central, momalog, losin, loulou, views, lemon, drop, eros, alegra, clarke, angie, mizzell, abby, record, nuts, nutshell, recent, kimberly, website, older, happens, lives, writers, block, poised, above, keyboard, hovering, waiting, wireless, pony, resulting, shrieks, even, though, 100th, particular, episode, tongue, attempt, conversation, adult, doesn, involve, poop, cutie, kisses, sleep, grateful, president, aid, military, families, receive, paychecks, husband, continues, navy, receiving, sisters, used, write, scraps, paper, borrowed, left, piece, halloween, candy, colored, pencil, sis, eating, sucker, while, workers, pay, doors, closed, leading, parks, national, zoo, museums, offices, loans, thing, american, people, conquer, change, members, congress, finances, tuesday, catch, majority, basic, asking, provoking, ideas, questions, framing, growth, mental, emotional, spiritual, struggling, dig, deep, characters, carve, unique, plot, simple, minded, missing, simplicity, bed, wash, hands, school, drink, water, potty, asked, morning, pick, room, friday, sat, examining, bending, look, irritated, mole, neck, coughed, phlegmy, thick, mucousy, sorry, tmi, had, comes, goes, whipped, pad, scribbled, nothing, drainage, coats, shook, his, head, insisted, fulfill, call, clinic, whatever, random, reason, least, hand, rarely, pharmacy, actually, medicine, course, serious, strep, kept, variety, close, within, appropriate, wanted, numbers, smack, dab, correct, went, taking, types, effect, finally, quite, exposing, body, its, microbes, kill, healthy, readers, disagree, everything, prescribes, aren, recycling, saturday, easy, path, answering, question, sure, say, amount, control, possibly, grandmothers, themselves, sprung, leak, inside, demand, expect, quick, fast, click, button, face, screen, blinking, cursor, instead, card, catalogs, weather, reports, newspapers, blades, grass, field, numerous, articles, positives, negatives, computers, tvs, phones, ipads, etc, fact, earned, result, energy, rewards, modeling, model, googling, entire, purchase, newspaper, really, rid, ipad, computer, physically, impossible, pack, put, non, accessible, functions, society, fear, frontiers, disappeared, meet, lot, stand, 2007, blogs, past, couple, found, amazing, rings, honesty, sincere, truly, values, everyone, discovered, starring, son, haven, photos, huge, shows, hope, enjoy, here, link, shared, friends, already, share, might, http, www, better, pets, beautiful, spring, challenges, topic, recipes, ingredient, pinterest, normal, average, piling, cart, lining, pantries, gathering, mold, refrigerators, origin, unless, gardens, order, teachable, history, lesson, sound, impressive, tonight, taken, upon, well, humans, transitioning, being, hunters, gatherers, farmers, cultivators, scrawny, cavities, sticky, finding, cultivating, cooking, providing, dreamed, going, dawn, stomach, homo, sapiens, also, guessing, springform, pan, pudding, cheesecake, puddings, soups, barf, type, add, sweeten, something, grown, harvested, cooked, consumed, alongside, carrots, dying, made, snoopy, snowcone, maker, appear, 1200bc, cream, jumping, forward, 000, literally, eats, six, talking, baby, size, ones, knew, count, pyramid, mother, which, preferred, goodness, invented, sign, were, champion, consumers, thunder, thighs, old, dozen, maraschino, less, minute, stone, slab, night, heard, supposedly, cereals, right, next, lucky, charms, wait, cows, weren, domesticated, einkorn, grain, identifying, scaling, mountains, crossing, deserts, means, bugs, eaten, dipped, cricket, long, crawl, muck, digging, grubs, swallow, whole, insects, climb, aboard, machine, plug, trying, feed, thousands, fed, sunday, marked, changes, lots, learning, welcomed, survived, deployments, moved, coast, starting, kindergarten, entering, grade, midst, able, continue, stories, during, pulled, loved, deleted, facebook, account, miss, use, springboard, motherhood, activate, publicly, viewed, meantime, playing, new, focus, entirely, hook, staying, connected, august, favorites,

Text of the page (random words):
zook book nook home about in the nook writing favorites bookstore thursday august 28 2014 staying connected the last few years have been marked in my life by big changes lots of learning we welcomed our third daughter we survived two deployments we moved from one coast to the other and now my second daughter is starting kindergarten and our oldest is entering second grade in the midst of all of this i ve been able to continue writing short stories but during this time i pulled away from the internet and loved it it s been i think over two years maybe more since i deleted my facebook account and i don t miss it at all i may or may not use this blog as a springboard for writing about motherhood but i thought i d activate it again to be publicly viewed again for some time in the meantime i m playing around with a new blog i ve started to focus entirely on writing hooks i love hooks so please stop over at the good hook 0 comments sunday october 13 2013 could i have fed my children in 10 000bc always a spring of creativity stasha of the good life at northwestmommy challenges us this week to come up with a list for her monday listicles on the topic of food and thinking where to begin grocery lists recipes ingredient labels pinterest we see the normal average foods piling up in our grocery cart lining our pantries gathering mold in our refrigerators but how often do we see their origin unless in our gardens out back so in order to make this into a teachable moment for my daughters and a history lesson for me so i can sound impressive at the dinner table tonight i ve taken it upon myself to find 10 foods that make me think of the world when it first began well maybe when humans first started transitioning from being hunters and gatherers to farmers and cultivators 10 foods that make me think of trying to feed my children thousands of years ago in case i climb aboard a time machine and plug in 10 000bc insects so i ve eaten a chocolate dipped cricket once a long time ago but i think i d have to crawl around in the muck digging for grubs and teach my girls how to swallow them whole almonds 10 000bc and i d be identifying these scaling mountains and crossing deserts to get almonds if it means no more bugs einkorn grain never heard of it but supposedly it was one of the first cereals available in 16 000bc right next to lucky charms i believe pass me the milk please but wait cows weren t domesticated until 6 000bc cherries these may not take the place of chocolate but if my 1 year old can eat a dozen maraschino cherries in less than a minute i have to think these would be on our stone slab table for dinner every night bread thank goodness this was invented in 10 000bc in my family thunder thighs are a sign we have ancestors who were champion bread consumers wine and beer who knew wine and beer count in the food pyramid of the world s oldest foods as a mother in 7 000bc i wonder which my daughters would have preferred cucumbers jumping forward to 5 000 bc because my middle daughter literally eats six or more cucumbers a day and i m not talking about the baby size ones ice cream 3000bc and i m dying to know how they made it without ice and our snoopy snowcone maker and sugar since sugar didn t appear until 1200bc peas and carrots now this is something i could have grown harvested cooked and consumed alongside my girls in 3000bc blood as food in the first century in puddings and soups and i m about to barf as i type this so let s add a 11 to sweeten this list cheesecake also a first century food and i m guessing they didn t have a springform pan but i d take this over blood pudding any day of the week so maybe we would have been a little scrawny with a few cavities and sticky fingers but i thank my ancestors from 10 000bc for finding food cultivating it cooking it and providing for their children i ve always dreamed of going back in time to the dawn of homo sapiens but i don t know if i could stomach it 0 comments labels children lists nature thursday october 10 2013 a dog a family we meet a lot of bloggers some stand out and we return again and again to their blog since i began this blog in 2007 i ve come to love many blogs but in the past couple of years i ve found one that i return to over and over again the good life by stasha at northwestmommy from her monday listicles to her amazing photography to her voice stasha s blog rings with honesty and beauty she writes sincere comments and truly values everyone s voice and then today i discovered on her blog this beautiful short movie starring her son and dog in case you haven t seen her dog in photos before it is huge but this short movie shows us the beauty of stasha s life so i hope you enjoy it as much as i have here s the link http www northwestmommy com 2013 better with pets i ve shared this with family and friends already and now i want to share it with you in case you might want to pass it on to others 0 comments labels a mom and a writer children photography monday october 7 2013 what will the future be like for my children it s easy to let our minds go down the path of answering the question what will the future be like for my children sure we wonder what our children will be like in the future but i have more say in that than the amount of control i have over the future world for our children what will the world be like in 50 years when i am 85 and my daughter are possibly grandmothers themselves i believe the internet has sprung this leak inside our minds we demand we believe we need we expect quick fixes fast solutions and answers available with a click of a button but the frontiers have disappeared and our children s minds first face a digital screen a blinking cursor instead of card catalogs weather reports in newspapers blades of grass in an open field i ve read numerous articles and books about the positives and negatives of exposure time to computers tvs cell phones ipads etc but it s not so much as exposure that i worry about but the fact that our children will never know a life without all things digital how do we teach our children that answers are earned solutions are the result of time and energy fixes are rewards of creativity and work modeling i need to model it for my girls i should stop googling it i should turn my cell phone off for the entire day i should purchase a newspaper and read it with them what i d really love to do is unplug it all get rid of the tv the cell phone the ipad the computer physically it s not impossible unplug pack up and put them away in a non accessible place but how hard would it be to do the day to day functions in our society today maybe not as hard as i fear maybe 0 comments labels children future saturday october 5 2013 recycling that prescription as i sat on the examining table at my doctor s office bending over so the doctor could look at the irritated mole on the back of my neck i coughed a phlegmy thick mucousy cough sorry for tmi a cough i ve had for over a year that comes and goes out whipped my doctor s prescription pad and he scribbled away take this antibiotic he said oh this cough it s nothing i said just drainage and it coats my throat he shook his head and insisted i fulfill the prescription for yet another antibiotic i call my doctor s office the antibiotic happy clinic because every time i go in for whatever random reason i leave with at least one antibiotic prescription in hand and i rarely take them to the pharmacy to actually get the medicine of course i do for serious things like strep throat but my doctor once kept prescribing a variety of antibiotics one after the other after the other for the close within the appropriate range of bacteria in my urine she wanted the numbers to be smack dab in the middle of the correct range weeks and weeks went by of taking different types of antibiotics with no effect and finally i said no i said no because i am quite alright with the bacteria in my urine i am not alright with exposing my body and all of its microbes to different antibiotics that kill off healthy bacteria maybe some of my readers will disagree with this maybe they take everything the doctor prescribes but maybe just maybe the doctors aren t always prescribing antibiotics as they should maybe some doctors are too antibiotic happy 1 comments labels children personal friday october 4 2013 the things we ask i often catch myself telling my daughters please pick up your room eat your peas this is the third time i ve asked you to get your shoes on this morning with all of this telling i begin to wonder what i ask them did you go potty yet what would you like to drink milk or water it s time to leave for school where are your shoes the majority of our day is filled with these basic telling and asking statements shouldn t it be filled with more thought provoking ideas and questions shouldn t i be framing their growth mental emotional spiritual maybe it s no wonder when i turn to my writing and find myself struggling to dig deep into the characters and carve out a unique plot maybe life is just too simple minded at the moment before i know it my girls will be 13 15 and 17 and then i ll be missing the simplicity of statements like make your bed and did you wash your hands 2 comments labels a mom and a writer children tuesday october 1 2013 shutting down shutting down happens often in our lives writers block and the mind turns off fingers poised above the keyboard hovering waiting internet wireless turns off in the middle of my little pony resulting in shrieks even though this is the 100th time they ve seen that particular episode my tongue my words my mind shut down at any attempt to have a conversation with any adult that doesn t involve the words poop cutie pie kisses and sleep but now now we have another shut down a big one the government i m grateful our president has come to the aid of military families we will receive our paychecks my husband continues to go to work every day for the navy and we won t be receiving iou s from the government an iou like my sisters and i used to write on scraps of paper when we borrowed a left over piece of halloween candy or a favorite colored pencil iou sis for eating your last sucker while members of congress don t have to worry about their finances this week other federal workers will go without pay and doors will be closed one shutdown leading to the shutdown of many others parks the national zoo museums offices federal loans but one thing won t shut down the voice of the american people our voice can conquer this shutdown make a change open up 1 comments labels personal older posts home my website kimberly zook recent posts some of my favorite posts 5 nuts in a nutshell abby off the record absolutely narcissism absolutely narcissism ii angie mizzell eros alegra clarke lemon drop pie loulou s views mama wants this mama wants this ii mama s losin it momalog mothers central on the go momma the bloggess the good life vinobaby s voice in the nook topics of interest a mom and a writer a writer mama s tale awards be enough blogging books children contests exercises family future guest bloggers hooks lists literature mama kat workshop nature personal photography publications scavenger hunt science tgifs thinking outside the box twister voice wordless wednesday writing blog archive blog archive aug 2014 1 oct 2013 6 sep 2013 9 dec 2012 1 jul 2012 4 jun 2012 8 may 2012 9 feb 2012 1 jan 2012 2 dec 2011 3 nov 2011 4 oct 2011 19 sep 2011 25 aug 2011 34 jul 2011 32 jun 2011 23 may 2011 14 apr 2011 1 apr 2010 2 mar 2010 2 nov 2009 2 oct 2009 2 sep 2009 19 aug 2009 17 jul 2009 22 jun 2009 29 may 2009 34 apr 2009 26 mar 2009 28 feb 2009 3 jan 2009 1 sep 2008 1 aug 2008 2 jul 2008 1 jun 2008 1 may 2008 16 apr 2008 5 about me k view my complete profile search this blog visit she writes blog of note free counters amazon com widgets visit my bookstore copyright 2011 zook book nook designed by nw designs