I have known Constance (Goram) Stanton since we were in 6th grade.  That was 1990, so next year we will have known each other for 20 years.  Though we haven’t kept in touch during every stage, we recently had baby boys only 5 days apart. Stone Cash Stanton was born on November 26, 2008 and Noah was born on December 1. We just had a fun couple of days with them.  It was a great time seeing Noah & Stone play together. That is the first time Noah has been around a baby so close in age.  Stone was actually a month early and Noah was a week late, so Noah got to teach Stone some fun things like sitting up and working really hard to escape the crib!!

The first photo below is of our high school choir in 9th grade.  Connie & I are front & center! She is fifth from the left on the front row, and I am fifth from the right. The following photos are of Noah & Stone from our 48 hour extravaganza…

CHS 9th Grade Choir

Noah, please share your pinwheel.

I'll show you what I'll share!

That's not very nice, Noah!

Jason & I got to shop at Whole Foods Market last week.  I am like a little kid in a candy store when I go there.  I could probably blow our savings in one visit.  The produce and meat, in particular, are outstanding.  I get even more satisfaction shopping there now, knowing I’m feeding this food to my little one.  When we got home from shopping, I was putting away the groceries and made an interesting discovery.  I had Progresso Plain Bread Crumbs in my pantry, and the can was still about 3/4 full.  I hadn’t realized I still had that much, so I had purchased a can at Whole Foods as well.  I decided to compare the two.  The price was about a $.50 difference, I think, but let me enlighten you on the difference in the ingredients.  No, I’m not making this up…

Whole Foods 365 Brand, Plain Breadcrumbs – Ingredients: Unbleached wheat flour, salt, dried yeast.

Progresso Brand, Plain Breadcrumbs – Ingredients: Bread Crumbs (Enriched flour [wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil [soybean and/or cottonseed and/or corn and/or canola], water, salt. Contains 2% or less of: yeast, honey, molasses, sugar, wheat gluten, whey, soy flour, whole wheat flour, rye flour, corn flour, oat bran, corn meal, rice flour, potato flour, butter, dough conditioners [mono- and diglycerides, sodium and/or calcium stearoyl lactylate, soy lecithin, calcium carbonate], yeast nutrients [ammonium sulfate, calcium sulfate, monocalcium phosphate], vinegar, nonfat milk, buttermilk, lactic acid, calcium propionate and potassium sorbate [preservatives], sesame seeds), oat flour, sunflower seeds, egg.

Does that list scare you like it does me?!  We have a friend who is a nutritionist, and he says ‘Don’t eat anything that lists ingredients you can’t pronounce!’  I think there were about 50 of those on this can! SHEESH!

This is probably a boring post to most people, but I am really wanting to feed the best to my family.  Sorry, Progresso, you don’t make the cut.