A birthday party run to Super Target yesterday led me down the cleaner aisle. Our floors see a lot of Murphy’s wood oil soap, thanks to our backyard loving wheaten. We are about to have a bunch of floor dwellers crawling around at the party, and now’s not a good time to be low on Murphy’s. The cleaner aisle at my ST has been relocated and swapped with the paper plate aisle. (You memorize these things when your baby is a fair-weather shopper with strong vocals.) While discovering this, I spotted more
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 Bottles have BPA, gum has aspartame, snacks and drinks have artificial color, and everything else contains MSG and trans fat, it seems. Where do you start? Cheers, my name is Niki Ahrens and I just want the best for my family, and for the rest of us too. It's our choice, as parents, whether OUR kids eat real food and whether we use First-Do-No-Harm products on and around them. The decision is always ours. I'm sifting through choices, making decisions, call me a sieve. 
 
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Phosphates in automatic dishwasher detergent have been banned in Spokane, WA. Some devotees are smuggling their beloved phosphates across state lines in spite of the ban. In your face, Spokane River. The fact that these phosphates end up in the river, and suffocate life there, does pale in comparison to the fact that 20 seconds pre-rinsing a soup pot may be spared. A quote from a Season 1 episode of 30 Rock keeps replaying in my head, ‘It’s after 6. What am I, a farmer?’ 
My lastest quest is a birthday cake. My daughter turns one year old very soon and we need a cake to ring in her very first year. I’ve enjoyed many a cake, many, many a cake. It’s hard to find one that I don’t like, in fact. So I don’t mind this mission. My quest is to find a delicious cake: one that is fresh, decently moist and not excessively sweet. Oh, and maybe contains a little chocolate. It would be cute to have an edible photo topping said cake, but we don’t, er my daughter doesn’t, do well with food dye. I’ll forego a cake before feeding her artificial food coloring. I prefer to have my baby not completely agitated and sleepless for a day. Especially on her birthday.