A Little Bit About Us…
I’m a mom of two, a five years-old boy (A) and a nine months old girl (W); a now former preschool teacher and nanny (over a decade of early learning experience); and about to return to the role of student (to earn my Master’s in Higher Education Leadership. My boyfriend (dadbites/B) is preparing to move from graduate student to counselor during a global pandemic. To say our family is state of transition is a bit of an understatement. However, we’re looking forward to what these next chapters will look like.
I have a passion for finding balance in life (hiking for 2.5 miles on day then staying in and playing board games the next: baking Monster Cookies but making a great spinach salad for dinner), early learning and education, and cooking for my whole family (I have a post on my thoughts on separate meals for each family member), throwing parties, decorating on a budget, and finding ways to live a little more sustainably (reusable bags and passing on straws -> searching out affordable, responsible clothing brands). I’m far from being an expert in any of these categories, but they are what interest me and what I find myself wanting to write about.
This space is not going to be about telling others how to live their life, new trendy diets, or fashion. It’s just a space I’m using to get some ideas out *there* in the hopes that maybe someone will read this and think, “Hey, I’m not alone in feeling this way,” or “Cool, a recipe I might be able to get my entire family to eat! No separate dinners tonight!”
You’ll find recipes, activities for kids, opinion posts, and maybe some other things.
Why “Momandbabe/momandkid bites”
Back when A was little I would occasionally laugh at myself for feeding him “fancy,” “adult,” or “bougie” food. I had worked with children for years
before I had A and I had seen a lot of picky eaters. I had worked for families whose children only ate “hidden vegetables,” if any at all. I had also
worked for families whose children usually ate shaped chicken nuggets and mac’n’cheese (and neither of these were “right” or “wrong”). But as a
new parent, I found myself just giving A bites of whatever I was eating or pureeing his own baby food. So, I would take pictures and post them to
Instagram. After a while I decided to start an Instagram account solely focusing on the stuff we ate. From restaurants, entire meals crafted from
Trader Joe’s frozen foods, to local produce picked up at the farmer’s market. It went through some various iterations (a “What I eat in a day,”
“macro info,” “babe bites/ mom bites”) and then, during quarantine I decided that I would change it one more time… into a page focused on home
cooked meals by Dadbites and I, and this blog is where the recipes will live.
Momandbabebites 