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Merry Christmas!

Blogged with Flock

To most parents, this is a common question asked time and again by their toddlers. For us, when T asks us it’s usually when we’ve brought something to the table to eat. As she’s getting older (2.2 yrs) there’s a lot more things she asks about. The other day, we set down taco shells on the dining table and she said, “Me have that?” “Yes, T, you can have that.” “Yay!!” It makes us happy when she can say yay.

Increasingly, there are things that she cannot eat that we are eating, although we usually try to be really good about it, and our whole family just eats safe things. Breakfast (lots of bread/wheat and dairy containing things) and eating out are the worst.

Oh, speaking of eating out, N and I tried a ramen noodle place today that I had heard about on CBC Radio 1, of all places: Ajisen Ramen. Must say, very nice. Very nice broth, noodles were chewy, and the “ngow-lam” was tender and squishy and glutinous. (Sounds gross but you know what I mean… it was good) One of our rare days off together, so that was a nice treat. We did our last minute shopping, a few gifts, but mostly for ourselves :0 (groceries at T&T & Dominion, housewares/kitchen stuff at Cayne’s). Christmas dinner is at our house this year, since it’s just easier for us to make stuff that is safe for T. Not that it’s all that, but we are having leg of lamb this year (yay! my favourite) and we needed a roasting rack… not to mention the leg of lamb itself.

So Christmas dinner, we don’t have to say “no” to T when the food comes out. We can just relax and give her anything we’re serving. And that’s really nice. Being able to let your guard down a bit, it’s a good thing. Especially at Christmas!

technorati tags:allergy, food, T&T, lamb, CBC, Ajisen

Blogged with Flock

When I first started this blog I felt as though each post was like an email to no one in particular. Now I feel like each post is going to real people, some I know, and some who I don’t. (Hi out there!) I’m hopeful that you will each find something interesting or useful from my experiences.

I see from my blogger dashboard that this is my 70th post, which means I have equaled the number of posts on my photoblog. Cool.

I was wondering how you read blogs. Do you use the RSS subscribe feed? A feed reader? Or do you just keep bookmarks / links? Links on your own page to blogs you read?

I have been using Flock’s newsreader feature to aggregate all the blogs I read into one page, that gets automatically updated whenever there’s a new post. It’s cool, and convenient, but I don’t really discover new blogs this way. I tried the “next blog” button, but it’s kind of random (ok, it’s totally random LOL) and sometimes i get nasty stuff, or stuff in not-english, or pre-teen asian girls who typ lk dis and tak abt der FRENS a LOT.

SO how do you go about finding new and amazing blogs?

Something’s been bugging me about the movie Crash. Not the Cronenberg movie, the 2004 Paul Haggis film. In the film, there’s a poignant moment when the girl saves her father with her invisible protective cape from the crazed shop owner. When I watched this scene, I was filled with emotion. Not only because I have daughters, but also because of the incredibly fortunate set of circumstances that saved this guy’s life. When it is revealed that the bullets the daughter of the shop keeper bought for her father are blanks, there is a collective exhale, and everything makes sense. What I want to know is, are blanks always sold in red boxes? Because if they are, and I knew that she bought blanks when she asked for the bullets in the red box, that whole moment would be so much less potent. See, now you know why you shouldn’t be reading this if you haven’t already watched the movie! Is the director banking on the potential audience of his film to be made up of people who are gun illiterate, city dwelling types like me? Or are blanks sold in any kind of box, and the red colour was just something thrown in there?

Anyway, it’s a really good movie… now that I’ve totally ruined that part of it for you…