All the food bloggers are doing it! – Posting pictures of pets
I’m going to be up front here and say that this is something that used to drive me insane with food bloggers. I would be skimming through tons of food posts with lots of recipes and delicious pictures, and then all of a sudden, bam! It’s a picture of a dog. 
Seriously. Why is there a picture of your dog wedged in between the picture of you chopping onions and the picture of this gorgeous dish you’ve made. Why?? At one point it got bad enough that when I was skipping through all the posts in my feed reader, I would take bets with myself on how many posts I could get through before seeing a picture of somebody’s dog.
I know people love their pets and I love mine, of course, but there’s something not so appetizing about drooling over a scrumptious brownie….and then seeing a dog drooling over them as well. Hmph. Then again, for all those who treat their dogs like their children, I’m sure this will offend them immensely. I just never understood why the dog pictures showed up in the middle of the posts instead of maybe at the beginning, the end, or in an entirely different post even. Most times there was no caption, no explanation, and no logical reason to see a random picture of a dog grinning at the camera.
So here I am, going to post pictures of our pets. I’m even going to write several posts where the pets will be featured. But there will be a reason in every single one of them, and I can guarantee you they won’t be random pictures of the pets in completely unrelated recipe posts.
After all, that’s what all the other food bloggers are doing, and that’s just not my style. ;) 
Mom diets, child becomes obese – Which is more dangerous?
Maybe the title is exaggerating a bit, but this is something I see all the time. This was at a grade school classroom event where parents and siblings were invited. And yes, I took a picture in between chairs. That’s not normal?
Anyway, the root beer is for the toddler on the right (young enough that she isn’t in school yet or she wouldn’t have been able to attend). The water bottle is for the mom on the left.
I won’t climb up on a soapbox or dive into any in depth post here, especially not at the risk of coming off as too judgmental. After all, it’s just a single picture of a single set of drinks at a single time here. It does make me do a double take to see such big issues so clearly laid out sometimes, though.
There is absolutely nothing negative about water and it’s what I drink 99% of the time even, but I happen to know that this particular mom is very weight-conscious, has low self-esteem, etc, and that choice of drink is more likely sparked by a fear of calories than it is an actual choice for health. And on the flip side, if the kid is anything like half of her peers, that probably isn’t the first or last soda she had that day.
I wonder what their health will be like in 10 years. And if she’ll still own those polka dotted shoes by then. ;)
Pancake cereal – Mini pancakes rule
Yep, dozens of itty bitty pancakes the size of dimes. What possessed me to do this, I don’t even remember, but it turned out to be a really fun way to eat breakfast.
After painstakingly placing dozens of circles on the griddle, I actually attempted individually flipping most of them before staying “screw it” and leaving the rest to cook all the way through from the bottom.
It might not look bad, but wait until you try holding your arm up over a hot griddle for several minutes straight, only to then have to start flipping the first set before they burn. Yikes. So I didn’t plan that one out too well, huh?
I expected them to be eaten on a plate with a fork, but it turns out that it’s way more fun to toss them all in a bowl, pour on some syrup, and eat with a spoon like you would cereal. Probably not the most nutritious approach, but oh so good!
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