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JR managed to locate the foosball table in the lounge room at Little Beans Cafe Winter is not an easy time to be parent in Chicago. It’s cold and grey. Everyone is tired of being stuck inside. I go a little crazy trying to come up with ways for my kids to burn off some energy when [...] January 31st, 2011 | Tags: Chicago, Collaboration, Early Childhood, J.R., Parenting, playdate, Social-emotional learning, Symposium | Category: Chicago, Parenting | 10 comments - (Comments are closed) Birthday parties are one of the hardest things for kids with food allergies I have written many times on this blog about my daughter Zuzu’s food allergies. In the past seven years of living with Zuzu, I have learned many things about food and food allergies. I have learned to shop and cook differently; I have learned how to [...] January 29th, 2011 | Tags: blogging, cooking, food, food allergies, Parenting, Recipes, social media, Zuzu | Category: cooking, food allergies, Social Media, Zuzu | One comment - (Comments are closed) Thanks to Trop 50 for sponsoring my writing about fabulous bloggers. This year Trop50 is granting 50 fabulous wishes. Click here to enter for a chance to win $1,000 to help grant a friend’s wish! I am relatively new to blogging. In fact, I started West of the [...] January 26th, 2011 | Tags: blogging, blogosphere, canning, clever girls, cooking | Category: cooking, Friends, Social Media | 7 comments - (Comments are closed) J.R. and one of his besties baking cookies I always suspected that Zuzu’s wheat allergy was the only thing keeping me from baking constantly. Turns out I was right. Since the summer, when Zuzu’s allergist cleared her to eat wheat, I’ve been churning out cookies, cupcakes and muffins several times a week – to say [...] This snow picture is actually from the DC blizzard of Xmas 2009 It looks like there is another snowstorm heading towards the Northeast. It has been a crazy winter in New England and the Mid-Atlantic — to say nothing of the freakishly cold weather in the south that left folks in Atlanta snowbound for days. [...] |
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