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Apricot-Walnut Cereal Bars

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Making a concerted effort to eat a good breakfast is important. We all know it, and the experts tell us this all the time. But so often breakfast is the last thing on our minds in the morning. In fact, my husband refuses to eat breakfast unless it’s left over in someone else’s cereal bowl. He ‘claims’ he doesn’t have time. (We all know that it really is a matter of making time, but that’s beside the point.) If this at all sounds familiar, here’s a smart solution: breakfast on the go. These bars are super easy to make and … Continue reading →

About Last Night

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Last night, we had to give Lily an Enema. It truly was an awful experience for everyone involved. If you’ve never had to administer such a procedure to your own child, consider yourself blessed. In a way, though, I guess we should consider ourselves blessed, because this was only the second time that we have had to give Lily an enema. The surgeon who performed Lily’s surgeries and oversaw her recovery told us that he has some patients with Lily’s same condition who require daily enemas. So I guess we shouldn’t be feeling sorry for ourselves. She had been doing … Continue reading →

Encouraging Your Teens to Eat Breakfast

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day… so the saying goes. But try telling that to your family! My younger brother used to hit the snooze on his alarm clock until the last possible second, then throw on some close and rush off to high school without eating. There are lots of “good” reasons for skipping breakfast: I wanted to sleep in. There’s nothing good to eat. It takes too long to make something. I’m not hungry when I first wake up. I want to lose weight. But research has shown that eating breakfast can help boost concentration … Continue reading →