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your children play with disney princess toys and barbies because you let those into your household. you are the parent, and you can make the decision about what sort of stereotypes are healthy or not for your children. this whole 'well my daughter just likes pink and makeup and is girly and there's nothing i can do about it!' is so naive and stupid.

these new legos are awful.

so uh, if i won, could i get a small one? my dog is only 11 lbs! i guess she and the cat could share a bigger one :)

make ahead breakfast burritos

scrambled eggs/garlic/onions/spinach, maybe some black beans, maybe some soyrizo, maybe some roasted potatoes, maybe some cheese. steam or microwave a tortilla for 10 seconds so it's easy to wrap them and then stick em in foil and into the freezer. put it in the fridge before you go to bed at night and then wrap it in a paper towel and microwave for 45 seconds. add copious amounts of tapatio. easiest and most filling breakfast that i've figured out to throw in my bag on the way to work.

really? i haven't paid for internet in 6 years thanks to various neighbors that are dumb (or nice) enough to have unsecured networks. we have everything encrypted and hidden on our computers and i'm not incredibly worried about someone seeing my netflix queue. sorry boutcha folks but i'm just not ever going to feel bad about keeping my dollars away from comcast or att.

the amelia bloomer book project is a great resource for feminist books for children.

http://libr.org/ftf/bloomer.html

http://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/

we don't give our daughter extremely pink stuff or ANYTHING disney princess related. there is a firm line drawn there (we have received disney princess stuff as gifts/hand me downs and have promptly donated it to charity). anything else is pretty open, she has baby dolls and a play food set but most of the time plays with her cars and blocks and tromps around the house being a dinosaur. her best little boy friend has a play kitchen, lots of baby dolls and baby strollers, etc. but our daughter is most interested in his brio set.

just stand back and let the kids play but don't give them the crap that will affect them for life. check out this peggy orenstein book if you're interested

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/books/review/Paul-t.html

@subtlefrog have you looked into these?

http://www.petmountain.com/show_product/11442-105305/?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=datafeed&utm_term=11442-500900

they are meant to hold pet food without pets being able to get into them, but a smaller one would probably work for compost as well

careful, i definitely had a canning jar full of chili break and explode all over my bag one time :(

we made it last night with our cast iron pan we use for everything and it just tastes like....cookie.

it's a pretty well seasoned pan that we take care of. we don't cook meat in it but we do cook fish. it turned out fine. can't wait to make oatmeal cookies like this!