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February 12, 2007 Savvy Spoonie 6 Comments

Valentine’s Day…

So the kids are having a Valentine’s day party at school, which means another day where the busy parents at Red Bank Primary all race to the store the night before the holiday and purchase 24 sugary cupcake treats for the kids to hand out, along with candy valentines.

Halloween saw 5 cupcakes per kid, full size ones, it was obscene!! I have never seen so much sugar in one place at the same time. The teacher didn’t even hand out everything that was brought, for example, there were so many sweet baked goods that the teacher never handed out any of the candy. In fact, she still has most of it in her class goody closet.

What’s worse is that there is a celebration in her class at least once, often twice a month. So these kids are getting an insane amount of sweets with surprising regularity.

We will be facing the sweetened abundance this wednesday at the next holiday school event. I want to bring something healthy for a snack, something that will at least provide a solid basis of blood sugar to help their little bodies absorb the sugar to come.

Anyone have any thoughts as to recipes? Monkey is bringing little stretchy dinosaurs in lieu of valentines so we have that covered, but I need to find a healthy, easy to make snack, preferably with protein in it.

Help!!

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Stamping it up…

February 11, 2007 Savvy Spoonie Leave a comment

The power of stamps…

I went to a Stamp It! party with some friends this weekend and oh the possibilities!! I want to hand design my own cards, wrapping paper, scrapbook pages, whatever!

Amy threw the party, and we made little chocolate labels and treat bags, which is a wonderful ides for party favors and one I wish I had thought of for my Denver Baby Shower, I may see if I can borrow her stamps and make some for the shower here! They were a lot of fun and very cute.

I ended up buying their watercolor pencils and a few stamp sets, mainly becuase I have been looking to replace my watercolor pencils forever and these were actually reasonable. They also have blending pens that give you alot more control than water and paintbrushes.

I was impressed with all their goodies though, they even have a watermark stamp, that works on every color of paper. I am investigating having a stamp made with my business logo and using the watermark to authenticate paperwork.

It is rare when my Law School OCD and my personal creative inner beast get to play together!!

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What to expect…

February 8, 2007 Savvy Spoonie 2 Comments

I received this note in my email today, from the helpful “What to Expect” people.

Week 33: Thinking for Two
Each week we’ll send you a note to share with the dad-to-be in your life. Pass it on!
She’s always been the one who remembered everything (your parents’ anniversary, the plans you had for next weekend, the meeting with the accountant you spaced on) and kept track of everything — wasn’t she the one with car key radar? But suddenly, you may have noticed, she’s the one forgetting meetings and appointments; she’s the one who can’t find her blue suit (because she didn’t remember to pick it up at the cleaners); and she’s the one who’s turning the house upside down to locate her car keys. Welcome to Pregnancy Brain Fog — another seemingly random symptom triggered by pregnancy hormones. Instead of ragging on her for her forgetfulness, help her cope with it. Search for her keys with her (or better still, put a key collecting bowl at the front door), remember to pick up the dry cleaning so she doesn’t have to, and casually mention at breakfast that important meeting she has this afternoon (before it slips her mind).

It’s true too, I am suffering from Placenta Brain, forgetting things, misplacing things, generally feeling insane.

My problem? The February Bar Exam. Do you think the PTB’s will forgive an incorrect point or two on account of baby brain?

For example: My boss asked me what the burden of proof was for a gender discrimination case. I couldn’t answer. Of course, I figured out later it was because Consitutional Analysis has levels of scrutiny, not burdens of proof, but still, it took me five hours to remember intermediate scrutiny!!

It helps that she didn’t remember either, and she is not suffering from pregnancy brain, but I won’t be able to make it through the exam if it takes me 5 hours to remember something as basic as that.

Sigh.

I am also having nightmares where I do into labor during the exam, an hour away from everyone who is supporting me through said labor. How do I get back home? Do I drive myself home? Do I leave my car in Somerset and call and ambulance? It will be a month early, so it’s not really going to happen, but it is certainly irritating that my subconcious has decided to worry about birthing during the bar exam instead of merely failing it.

Anyone have a cure for pregnancy/bar exam induced nightmares from hell?