January 2012
19 posts
Three Years Old
It’s hard for me to believe that you’re three years old. You were just a baby. Helpless, crying when you wanted your bottle or when you were tired or when a stranger would make eye contact with you. But now, you’re a boy.
I still remember visiting you in the NICU. Wanting to take you home the day I got discharged and not being allowed to. Crying that whole Shabbat because I...
December 2011
8 posts
3 tags
Switching Things Up A Bit
Homeschooling has been going great. Asher and I have been having a lot of fun. Asher has been learning a lot. And I even found a way to include Kovi! [Pictures of what we done since my last post about homeschooling will be after my little “announcement” here.] I have been reading this book and I really like it. The things that the author says make sense to me and it’s basically...
50 lbs of Sugar
edwardspoonhands:
According to the New York Times, the average American drinks 50 gallons of soda per year. That’s 189 liters. A liter of soda has 129 grams of sugar.
189 liters * 129 g/l = 24400 g, or 24.4 kg or, yes, roughly 50 lbs of sugar per year…JUST FROM SODA…GAHHH!!!!
If you’re wondering, that’s 83,000 calories of soda per year. I think maybe I’ve solved the peculiar mystery of the...