Category: rants
Thank Heavens!
Late last night, on a special call out to our house, the repairmen from J&R Appliance in New Milford fixed my refrigerator. It was an ordeal – with a store that made promises they wouldn’t keep and a repair contract company who made mistake after mistake. But in the end, it was J&R who came [...]
An Important Lesson: Why not to procrastinate
This is my refrigerator. It is just shy of three years old. We’ve been careful to baby it, vacuuming underneath to ensure that no dog hair or dust build up taxed the motor. And I love it – the delicious water from the dispenser, the way it dependably keeps my food cold or frozen (depending [...]
McBamboozling?
McDonald’s Corp. is taking a new tactic to try and make people feel okay about eating their food and feeding it to their children. They are letting six women — all mothers — visit restaurants, processing plants, test kitchens and orchards. Then the women are going to journal, not blog because there will be no [...]
Are Melamine Plates Safe?
As a mother of a young child, I am constantly on the prowl for what’s safe and what isn’t. In my house, we avoid partially hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup and microwaving plastic. But until this week, I hadn’t given a thought to the melamine plates that my son eats from. After all, the [...]
Can You Feel the Newness?
Will loves to say “thank you.” He thanks people for handing him things, and for taking things that he hands them. He thanks you for holding doors, opening containers and taking away bottles (baa-baaas, in Will speak). It’s the first phrase that he’s learned and he’s really taken it by the horns and used it [...]
Who do they think they are?
Ok, so, I need to complain. I went to the Friendly’s in Danbury, Conn., with my husband and son (just over a year old) today for lunch. Figuring that it’s a good, family friendly restaurant, I thought it would be a good place for a treat for my boy. He’s been such a trooper about [...]
