Meanwhile, we have a 2.5-year old toddler running loose in the house. He’s weighed 27lb for a year now, and has zero fat on him. I try not to dwell on the implications. But he does have a rather erratic eating schedule; he’ll eat one full meal and half of another on any given day. 

I think we all have our triggers.  For a while I was filling water bottles at Whole Foods filtered water station for my parents (they have their own filtering system now) and every time I stopped in, I’d get a big fat cinnamon roll.  Yum.  But then, even if I didn’t need water, I’d think of something I needed from WF .. seafood or something .. and (oh yes!) pick up a cinnamon roll while I’m at it.

If there’s anything I hate worse than wasting money, it’s wasting money and getting fat at the same time!

Very good point about getting control early. Toast & cheese doesn’t appeal to me as a breakfast, but it’s pretty easy to convince myself that stopping off at the Bojangles or Krystal for breakfast isn’t going to hurt anything. WRONG.

Funny thing, right after I posted this I heard that the MIL had (overnight) eaten all the Peeps.  So, who knows what the future holds there.  I’m pretty sure I’d never touch one again if it was me who’d nearly chocked on a marshmallow!

Did I read that your days of baby-sitting chickens are gone?