Parenting from Scratch

If you need a little inspiration for changing the way you eat, go watch the trailer for the PBS special, Nourish: Food + Community.

Rixa of Stand and Deliver has highlights from her conversation with Thomas Balmès, filmmaker of the documentary Babies (Which I’m dying to see. Who wants to come with? Who wants to babysit?).

This post at Simple Bites makes me want to throw out all of my spices and start over from scratch. I probably should.

Good Goog has a post on parenting two-year-olds that I think is great. I realize that Sadie’s just barely turned one, but I wouldn’t be me if I weren’t already researching how to handle myself as Sadie develops into toddlerhood.

I’m late on the Cesarean Awareness Month bandwagon, but Crunchy Domestic Goddess asks, Why is it so hard to get a vaginal birth?

I know I didn’t give birth to a boy, and I don’t want to stir up trouble here, but I think this is an interesting perspective on cosmetic male circumcision.

I’ve been a little short in the motivation department this week, so weekend links are a bit sparse. I’m trying to get myself to commit to two personal challenges for the month of March. The first is to not eat out unless someone else (not counting Trevor) is paying. So far, so good. The second is to ride my bicycle on the trainer every night. Trevor successfully did this in February, and it was pretty inspiring. I’m starting with just 30 minutes, where he did a full hour, but I’m definitely starting from scratch on the whole exercise thing. I didn’t come up with the idea until Tuesday, so I obviously missed the first day of the month. Aaaand, I kind of chose to sulk last night about not getting to be irresponsible and use our mega tax refund for a European vacation, so I went to bed early and didn’t ride. Tonight, I’ll be back in the saddle, though! Maybe I’ll muster up the energy to post the rest of the links I’ve been collecting for this weekend.

To watch:

Laboring Under an Illusion: Mass Media Childbirth vs. The Real Thing (h/t to Stand and Deliver). I hope to find some time to watch this over the weekend.

To read:

Parental Responsibility and Retirement Savings This is an interesting thing to consider. We’ve been planning to open a 529 account for Sadie (crap, we’re almost a year behind), but we haven’t made any firm decisions about what our savings goals will be for her college education. Or our retirement.