Yearly Archives: 2011

Book Club News!

The publisher of Free for All: Fixing School Food in America contacted me right after I posted about starting up the book club and offered to giveaway five copies to readers of the blog! How cool.

Like I posted last week, we’re going to spend most of January acquiring the book (through the library, bookstore, online, or the giveaway) and starting to read it. Moving into February, I’ll start posting discussion questions, to keep us going. Word of warning: this is not light reading. Janet Poppendieck must have researched and written for years to compile and organize the information for the book. The only time I find to read is at night, before bed. I’m going to put a highlighter on the bedside table so I can keep track of all of her quotes, statistics, and other information.

If you want to enter the giveaway and read along, please comment below by Friday January 7th! I’ll choose winners using random number generator.

One year old!

My own 2010 birthday cake
My blog is one year old! The anniversary of my very first blog post is Monday. Even one year ago today, just before I posted for the first time, I was still debating. Should I eat school lunches and blog it? I would lean towards “no,” then I would think, “maybe.” Finally I decided “yes,” without telling anyone. This whole thing was this close to never happening. So…

Happy birthday, little blog that could!

Where is Mrs. Q headed in 2011? What is happening with Fed Up With Lunch? Lots of good stuff I can’t talk about yet. But I will keep blogging:

  • School lunch issues and news items
  • What I’m eating and how my gluten-free diet is going (very well)
  • What I pack in my little boy’s lunch
  • Ad critiques (like I did in the summer)
  • Product reviews 
  • Book club (Free for All is the first book for Jan/Feb)
  • Guest bloggers
  • Community work (like I did in summer)
  • Open threads
  • Titanium Spork Awards
  • Blog parties, Twitter parties, and Facebook discussions
  • Giveaways
  • Blog conferences
  • Random thoughts about life
  • My favorite things in lists, like cookbooks and bloggers
  • More personal stuff about me and my family…be patient, it’s in the works

I’d like to do a website migration to self-hosted and redesign (please email me recommendations for designers, if you know someone) later in the year. Don’t worry, I’ll make sure not to lose you on RSS. And I’ve finally updated the outdated links on the blog’s side bar.

I just saw the button, below, on Tea and Cookies. I guess, I had never scrolled down on her site before. I had to re-post it, because when I read it, it took my breath away:

Get Lucky by Katherine Center

 

My wish for you in 2011 is braveness. Now that I mention it, my wish for myself is braveness too!

Open thread: Happy New Year!

What do you want to accomplish next year (and would be willing to share in a public place)?

I couldn’t have planned for this past year and so I’ve decided, after writing yesterday’s anal super-organized freak person blog post, that I need to relax a little and just let 2011 happen. Here is what I want to do:

  • Be a good mom and wife
  • Stop worrying as much
  • Focus on improving my health

Not sure I can write those in a measurable way 🙂