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(from The Common Room)

Diet Change

I've made another adjustment in my ever-evolving search for the perfect diet. I'm going back to the diet I felt best on (the diet outlined in Total Health Makeover by Marilu Henner, which is near-vegetarian, dairy-free, low-sugar basic healthy eating with proper food combining encouraged) but I'll be incorporating some raw foods into it and doing it gluten-free. Reasons for the switch - I'm increasingly always hungry, fruit is expensive, and I'm concerned about my greater risk for diabetes with all the fruit since I had gestational diabetes with my third pregnancy. Without fruit as the foundation of the diet, the tendency is to base the diet on nuts, seeds and avocados - which is too much fat and can make you tired. The other option is to base the diet on vegetables - lettuce, carrots, peppers, cucumbers, etc. And I don't want to live that way.

I'll be starting the day with a piece of fruit, then having a small bowl of gluten-free cereal and soy milk a couple hours later, mega-salad for lunch, and some kind of protein for dinner - either fish or, more often, beans and a gluten-free starch like rice, millet or potatoes. With a side salad.

Oddly enough, the best I ever felt was the last time I was pregnant and the baby was pressing on my stomach so I could hardly eat. Maybe there's a clue there - that it's food itself that disagrees with me. ;)

Miss M

Not sure what the game is, but Miss is playing with plastic food and pretending they're people talking to each other. Here's the snatch I caught:

"Come here. No. No. You may not take your head off. That's not very nice."

(sound of pretend crying)

"Why are you crying?"

"I'm a nice person."

"Yes, I know, you're a nice person. Of course. But you may not take your head off."

New Blogger: Label Lots of Posts

I stole this from a comment that "Mommy Dearest" left at the Beehive:

You can add categories without having to republish your posts. If you open the "edit posts" screen, you can put check marks in the boxes and pull down the "label actions" menu at the top to apply the category labels without even opening the posts. It's handy for applying a bunch of categories at the same time.

It worked great! And I also discovered that, although Blogger only likes to show 25 or 50 posts at a time for editing, you can choose the option to display 300 - and, if you have over 500, like I do, you can cheat by typing in the number of posts you have in the URL so that blogger has to display all of your post titles on one page. Very handy for batch labeling!

Do you ever get discouraged and wonder if your homeschooling is working?

Katie of CM, Children and Lots of Grace wrote this beautiful post.

Dinner: Prebirth

(what you get when you combine an egg dinner for five with three flashlights and a photographer. The setup:)

The Lunch Game

I think this game posted at the Beehive may be the funniest thing I've ever seen - you simply must play!

Peculiar Aristocratic Title

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Most Noble and Honourable Tim the Rustic of Fritterton on the Marshes Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

(from The Common Room)

What I'm thinking about today

"In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children."

- John Ruskin, Mornings in Florence

What Non-Homeschoolers May Not Know About Homeschoolers

This post from another blog was posted to one of the Ambleside Online email lists. It's nice to remember these things when I feel bad about not meeting all my own expectations about doing it all.