March 31, 2007
· Filed under Choices, Coolness, Food
Today, Jen and I went to Milwaukee’s Urban Ecology Center for a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Fair. In a nut shell, CSA’s let you buy stock or shares in a local farm and in exchange you get a bushel of fresh produce and groceries each week.
We took the plunge and invested in Wellspring Farms of West Bend, Wisconsin. Our Garden Subscription gets us fresh veggies and fruits for 25 weeks from May to November. If we choose to, we can also get fresh eggs for a little more. We can also go out and visit the farm or if we choose to we can put in time helping out on the farm and work off some of our subscription cost.
Oodie Doodie may start eating solids before this year’s subscription comes to a close and it will be nice to know that we’ll be getting plenty of certified organic garden goodies for us to make into her first solids.
On a quick side note – The Urban Ecology Center is an amazing place that combines modern design with ecological soul. I think once Oodies old enough we’ll have to get a membership there as well.
March 31, 2007
· Filed under Clothing, Coolness
Today the Spring International Gift Shop was held at the Quaker meeting house and we just could not pass up this onesie and hat set. I think it was the spikes on the hat that sold us. Not only that, but the outfit is organic, always a plus. The company that puts it out is called Maggies Organics and they just started to sell baby clothes. Hopefully, we can pick-up the Mastadon and Panda sets some other time.
March 29, 2007
· Filed under Advice, Choices
I fret a lot about raising a girl. I worry about everything. When should she be allowed to get her ears pierced, wear make-up, leave the convent…those sort of things.
One thing that I thankfully don’t have to worry about is circumcision.
I was reading Mothering again – I really should look to see if they make a Fathering Magazine – when I came across an article about circumcised males being less sensitive than those who got snipped. I guess this is just one more thing I can hold against my parents.
The upswing of this article is that I now have an excuse the next time I’m accused of being insensitive.
On a similar note Jen and I can’t stop laughing at this picture posted on Baby Roadies.
I can only hope Oodie Doodie has this much artistic talent.
March 29, 2007
· Filed under Names
This week we add in all the letters from the last name that do not appear in either the first name or the middle name. 
March 27, 2007
· Filed under Advice, Breastfeeding
Did you know you can get escorted out a mall in Wisconsin if you are caught breastfeeding in a place other than a bathroom or changing room? That’s right, you can’t even feed your baby in the food court!
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported on an assembly to pass a bill that would put an end to this sort of harassment. While it’s not illegal to breast feed in public, it’s also no illegal for an establishment to ask you to kindly nurture your baby somewhere else.
Personally, I’d rather see a little infant getting what it needs than watching some American-sized fat-asses scarf down Sbarro’s.
Where’s Hathor when you need the her?
March 27, 2007
· Filed under Publications, Scary
Jen and I are liberal, green, etc. Basically, we are open-minded people, or so I’d like to think, but every now and then I come across something from that cereal bowl of a state1, California, that makes me anxious for the “big one”.2
Exhibit A:
Hathor the Cowgoddess came to my attention through Mothering Magazine, a publication I normally applaud.
I’ll use the words of Mothering Magazine to describe Hathor because frankly, I can’t make this shit up.
Hathor the Cowgoddess is a character created by Heather Cushman-Dowdee, an artist living in Los Angeles, California. She is a superhero who wants to save humanity through the combination of nurture, sustainability and bonding inherent in the practice of attachment parenting. Her movement is called the Evolution Revolution, her breasts are her superpower and her sidekick is her baby, always carried in a sling and prominently (politically) suckling at her exposed breast.
Thanks but no thanks. I think I’ll stick with Peanuts or Pogo or Calvin and Hobbes.
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March 25, 2007
· Filed under Photos
Spring sprung in Milwaukee and none too soon. June will be here before you know it.
March 22, 2007
· Filed under Decor
March 21, 2007
· Filed under Names
Each week we’ll add a new letter until the baby’s name is spelled out or until the baby arrives, which ever comes first.
Hint: Oddie Doodie shares her middle name with the title of a 1966 film.
March 20, 2007
· Filed under Choices, Decor
It’s spring break and what does that mean? Girls gone wild? Drunken road trips? Sun and Fun?
Nope! It means it’s time to decorate Oodie Doodie’s room. I’ve already torn up the carpet, primed the walls, taped the edges, and laid out tarps. It’s now time to paint.
What color are we painting the room? I argued for black, but Jen said nowayjose. We bounced back and forth between greens and yellows. We could have gone with pink, but if this kid turned out to be a boy after we — change that — after I painted the room pink I think I’d tell them to just cut the damn thing off.
We finally settled on Rice Wine. I thought they should have called it Sake, but then I read that Sake is more like beer than wine. Go figure. Rice Wine is a yellowish hue. Some folks say that a yellow colored room can make you go crazy. But, remember that is yellow wall paper, not yellow paint. If anything is going to make Oodie Doodie crazy it will be my genes, not the color of her room.
Stop by tomorrow to see pictures of the painted room.
