The Thing About Organic Food Is.....

Moths!!!!

The little buggers are everywhere! I've taken pride over the years in buying organic foods. I buy my organic grains, flours, all my spices, lots of my teas in bulk. I learned long ago from smaller infestations to put everything in the freezer a few days before storing, but even with that precaution I have the worst crop of them EVER!

I have those little sticky traps in the kitchen, the garage and the library. They are supposed to last three months and mine last three weeks. The sticky stuff gets all fuzzy from their little death throw flutterings and no longer traps their friends. I spend time every few hours walking around with my broom squishing them while imagining myself to be

Our Old Friend, The Grim Reaper

Or.....

Hecate, the Goddess of Death.

I've searched high and low for their food source, scoured out shelves, checked here and there and I cannot find what keeps them here. It's been suggested that I am attracting them from the pheremones in the traps so now I keep all the doors closed, even though my Spring is always a time when they are open.

I am beginning to wonder if this is a sign of the beginning of the Tribulation.

Even though it's been tremendously fun to be a mass murderer and get agressions out, I'm sick of them. I guess chemicals have their place.

Photo credits:

Mothra from Monster Island News

Hecate from Hecate (so I figure they know what she looks like)

The Grim Reaper from Starcraft.org

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The What If? Game

My Dad used to be a lawyer who fancied himself a philosopher. Some of my favorite memories of him are when he used to try and get us to think. He would always try to "train our minds" by continually taking the Devil's advocate position.

When my kids were growing up, I took this theme and created a game with them that I named the "What If?" game. Basically, I would give them a scenario that would involve having to make an ethical judgment call.

One day, Morgan and I were doing something, can't remember for the life of me what it was.

"Mom...want to play the What If? Game?"

"Sure."

"What if someone came to you and told you that you had to choose one of your kids to have killed? That one had to die and you had to choose. Which one of us would you choose?"

"The one who asked a question like this in the What If? game."

Tantrum Time

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I am a much better parent of teens than younger kids. Much.

Awhile back, I was in a store. There was a five year old girl there with her father. She was screaming, in typical five year old fashion. I have no idea what about, but I remembered those times when my kids might have had the same response to life when it was not going the way they wanted it to.

I looked at her, looked at the Dad and said to my friend:
"Give me drugs, sex and rock and roll any day over that!"

And I meant it. Any. Day.

Parenting Experts

picture courtesy of Sue Mell

Have you ever noticed if you're in a group of people and the subject of parenting comes up, the ones with the strongest opinions about how kids should be raised, the ones that have all the answers, the ones who "know best" are the people who have never had kids?