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My friend Tabitha quit all milk and milk products this week, and she’s had possibly the worst week ever. Tabitha darlin this one’s for you.

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Lloyd Bridges as McCroskey, in Airplane!

I confess, I don’t quite get Buy Nothing Day. It seems to me that the day to buy things would be the day when they are priced the least, rather than some other day when they are priced higher. I think I must be missing something.

The general notion of voluntary simplicity is one I can get behind though, and do.

The Pilgrims that sailed on the Mayflower did not wear the stereotypical black accented with buckles.

Pilgrim adults and children wore bright solid colors since their religion did not object to colorful clothing. They had many dyes so that red, green, beige, burgundy, blue, violet, as well as brown and black were worn.

from Pilgrim Clothing.

This blog post brought to you by someone who would be a right stickler if she ever got to make SCA garb again.

I think it’s time to watch Colonial House, haven’t seen it in several years.

I made this one – not my kid or my cat though.

moar funny pictures

Sean got us some of the Walmart fair-trade coffee. It was difficult to find and it’s not cheap, but it’s excellent coffee. Next we’re going to try to find Yuban coffee, which, while not fair-trade, at least makes an attempt.

Onward!

In my extensive coffee research (that is to say, what you guys said combined with one Google search) I have learned that you can buy green coffee beans, that Episcopalians like fancy coffee, and that Walmart has fair trade coffee. Here’s some background on that, and here’s the actuality. These guys are against it because they say Walmart is evil.

Me?

Walmart here we come. And if it stinks then we’ll try the other suggestions.

I’m livid with anger at the Chinese toxic formula sicknesses and deaths.

I am all about breastfeeding.

Obviously.

But I know several women who HAVE TO use formula because they have very low milk supply. Low supply affects a lot of women, I’ve read various statistics, but I’d say five to ten percent is reasonable. And that’s not to mention all the women I know who were misinformed by doctors and others and ended up with formula because they eventually had no milk due to poor advice on breastfeeding.

The current theory is that someone is diluting the milk with water, then adding melamine powder to make it look like it’s actually high-protein milk. It’s not accidental.

Somebody in China just doesn’t care that this is killing babies. Living, breathing, lovely babies. It’s just luck that this hasn’t happened here.

Enraged.

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I’m a milk donor and you can be too.

I am pumping and donating directly to a family in need and many (many!) more such families can be found through Milk Share, a list which connects donors and recipients. We are cash-poor and spare time is also hard to come by around here so it’s not often that I get to really help someone. It’s just a wonderful feeling.

Another option is to donate to a milk bank. There’s a controversy as to whether you should donate to a HMBANA bank, the nonprofit organization that collects freely donated milk and only charges a very minimal processing fee to hospitals, or to a Prolacta bank, which collects freely donated milk and resells it for up to $45 an ounce. You can google, decide for yourself. Personally, if I wasn’t donating directly to a family I would donate to HMBANA.

So go on, get pumping!