1) Get Miss L to Eat Vegetables

So, one of my New Year's resolutions is to get Miss L to eat healthier. We actually eat pretty healthy. We eat meat sparingly, eat a lot of beans, and I only buy whole wheat bread. Probably could cut back in the amount of sweets I bake, but.... that's not the goal yet. I probably should just limit the intake more.

But it seems like Miss L only picks at the healthy stuff, aside from cheese, yogurt, beans, and applesauce (which some of that isn't all that healthy when eaten in large quantities). She loves broccoli, peas, tomatoes, and corn, but that is it.

So she had veggies and dip for lunch, and I had a salad. I have recently rediscovered ranch dressing. I don't like mayonnaise in large quantities, but if I mix buttermilk with ranch dressing mix, it tastes wonderful...who knew. Well apparently everyone that posted it on the internet, but besides them.

I have a friend whose 4-year-old loves salads. How do you do it ? We're working on it here.

First Day Back

With all that anxious worrying from yesterday, things went pretty much okay. Miss L and I had a wonderful day today going to the library, Target (for more diapers), and I started piano lessons. She did pretty well, but I still considering getting a babysitter for the evenings, I haven't decided, I guess I'll give Gary's schedule one more week.

Gary had night call last night, but was done around 3:00, and after being informed they would call him around 5-6, he decided to stay at school. This is a downside of living away from the school, (there are very few). 9:00pm rolled around, and he decided to come home. 12:30am came, and he was called, but because he was home they didn't make him come in. I think we need clearer instructions next time, because they aren't supposed to call the med students after 11pm.

I guess we'll just wait it out. I am ready to get back to a schedule, make some new years resolutions, see someone other than my family (too bad too many kids too sick to play), and drop some Christmas weight. Because of a certain little boy growing in my abdomen, I don't think the latter will happen, but at least I can walk Miss L to the park in the mornings. More to come on the New Years resolutions...