I made Juniper and myself a mug of hot chocolate for dessert after lunch today and when I grabbed a straw for her I thought to myself that I needed to get more and then I laughed at my own hypocrisy. Since a teen I have hated straws ... not used them whenever I got a drink at a restaurant. Turning my nose up at the extreme waste of such a disposable tool. Now I love them for my kids. It's been really important for helping my son with his oral sensory issues and, frankly, it reduces the mess Juney makes. I do try to use them more than once but I can only take picking them up & cleaning them so many times. I tend to grab them off the flour & chuck them in the trash. Oh well ... we're slowly trying to reinstitute our more sustainable practices as the kids get older ... I even washed some plastic baggies yesterday and we're trying to use our reusable snack baggies more.
Speaking of hot chocolate ... I found this awesome brand of powder at Whole Foods, Allegro. It is by far the best premixed hot chocolate powder I've found after being totally spoiled by the amazing hot cocoa in Mexico. I like the Costa Rican Allegro best so far. I also make a mean hot chocolate with chips (either E Guittard or Ghiradelli's) with cinnamon & NM red chili.
I'm doing drywall mud today, trying to finish up the patch job in the kitchen from when we had a foot of snow last winter (flat roofs don't like a foot of snow). It totally reinforces why I love working with earthern plaster/mud instead of drywall and gypsum plaster. What amess and it's just a pain to get an even, unbubbled surface. At least this will be the last house I have that isn't earthern plaster.
You may be wondering why I've been doing so many entries the last few weeks. My folks got me a Dell Inspiron Mini9. I was real leary when I saw how small the thing was ... but I love the fool thing now. The keyboard is a bit tight (I hate where they put the apostrophe & quotes key) but I can use it for short things and can always use my external keyboard for long jobs plus I have the cutest little external mouse with auto rewinding cord. What is really great though is I can pick the thing up and jot down a few things or check email in the 5 minutes I have between children demanding my attention (e.g., right Juniper is quietly reading a book while sitting inside the slip cover on the back of the futon). When they start punching buttons on the keyboard I can shut the thing and stow it away on the bookshelf. It is small enough to fit in my purse. AND the battery actually really does last the 2-3 hours advertised, a first for any laptop I've owned, even when running multiple programs.
Gotta run ... J just dropped the empty ceramic mug we used for cocoa on the floor. I love wood flours ... they don't break as many dishes. FYI: this won't be spell or grammar checked.
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