http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com The Tragic Optimist - a librarian encounters infertility, parenting, and anything else I feel like rambling on about Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:40:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chris got me a new bread baking book for my birthday, Baking with the St. Paul Bread Club (I'm all about the bread babking by local authors).  I've been quite happy making my Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, so  I was initially unsure about trying it.  The ABi5 ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/more-bread-baking/ We were at a bbq with some friends, and Chris noticed I'd given Zoe some brownie before she'd finished her hot dog.  (She'd asked for chocolate, and I sympathized greatly with that particular request, so I complied).  I made some comment about being a bad mom.  "No!" piped Zoe from ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/not-bad/ This is part II of what I learned at the cooking class.  Part I covered the actual cooking parts. As we were finishing up our last rotation on the grill, waiting for the corn to finish, I asked one of the instructors how they came up with their ideas for classes, ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/what-i-learned-at-the-cooking-class-part-ii-class-design/ When Chris bought our Big Green Egg, it came with a coupon for a free cooking class at the store where we bought it.  We've taken a couple of awesome classes there before, and yesterday evening, we cashed in the coupon and took a class on grilling vegetables.This was a ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/what-i-learned-at-the-cooking-class-part-i-the-cooking/ We've been members of a CSA (community supported agriculture, also called farm shares) for 3 years now, though this year we changed to a new farm.  Our share gets us a weekly delivery of whatever fresh produce the farm happens to have harvested throughout the summer and early fall.  Or ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/farm-share-and-shared-risk/ Zoe woke up early this morning - like every morning.  I'd promised last night that we'd make muffins, so we did (corn muffins, from America's Test Kitchen's New Best Recipe.  We use yogurt instead of sour cream). It rained pretty hard this morning, but had stopped just as the muffins finished ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/early-saturday-morning/ I went to yoga class this evening - back to the non-profit yoga studio now that the community ed class is over for the summer.  It was lovely.  It was supposed to be an hour and fifteen minutes, but it went longer than an hour and a half.  And that's ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/yoga-ramblings/ [caption id="attachment_776" align="aligncenter" width="240" caption=""our" bunny"][/caption] Fighting Windmills asked about the bunny that keeps stopping by our yard - she's been nesting in our front yard for the past two years and raising her babies in the spring. Even though in general, I hate the bunnies that eat my lilies and ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/the-bunny/ In less than 90 minutes, that will be my age. I've never been one to complain about aging, and I'm not going to in this post either. Just felt like mentioning it. I'll get back to blogging more. I will. I hope. What would you like ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/34/ I was tagged by Coffeegrl for this, and it looks like another good way to get me out of my posting slump.  Actually, this is kind of hard. Eight things I am looking forward to: 1. The end of the school year.  I like the change of pace once we hit summer. 2. ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/crazy-8s/