We have peanut butter!!

Our lives changed on February 14, 2007:
"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to eat certain jars of Peter Pan peanut butter or Great Value peanut butter due to risk of contamination with Salmonella Tennessee (a bacterium that causes foodborne illness). The affected jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter have a product code located on the lid of the jar that begins with the number "2111." "

I don't know about you, but my child is made of peanut butter. It's the one thing that I could always turn to when he was picky and hungry. And suddenly it was gone. No other peanut butter would do. He settled for peanut butter crackers, but that's pre-packaged with who knows what, and I knew the nutritional value could not be compared. In May I read that the company was hoping to begin production in July. I told Gregory that, and he said that I'd better not get him peanut butter for his birthday (late in July). Truth is, he'd have been thrilled to have it for his birthday. I later read that they were aiming for late August. Imagine if you can my amazement when I saw Peter Pan peanut butter on the shelves of WallyWorld Saturday. Can I tell you that I had tears in my eyes thinking about coming home and making my child a peanut butter sandwich? I felt like Walter Fielding in Money Pit discovering they have stairs - "We have peanut butter!"

Now I'll have to start buying more bread again!

I am a Violet What Flower Are You?

The square peg...

Nobody IRL gets me. Well, that's an exaggeration. My hubby gets me, and he's still here. I am truly blessed that he's always seen parenting as my career (not just a job), and he's allowed me to do the research and come up with what works for us. That doesn't mean he's hands off. Far from it. He's just allowed me to be the expert here. He respects my choices and feels I can make good choices for our family. He sees the results of those choices, and it is good.

Lately, I'm running into people who obviously (to me at least) are threatened by or are resentful of the freedoms I've chosen to create my world. As my son gets older, I've become less and less coersive with him. Everyday it seems I have another mini-lightbulb moment about one thing or another. Things are constantly changing in our house.

I'm not too big into writing, so I may not go on and on about the details of each day. I'm a photographer, and I do a lot of photo-journaling. So you can expect many photos.

Oh, we saw Underdog yesterday and really enjoyed it!

More later!
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