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While driving home this morning after dropping Henry off at preschool, I turned on the radio and there was a guy reading almost verbatim the article that Mel linked to in her comment on yesterdays post about how to get kids to eat a more varied diet. Now I'm trying to figure out if the universe is trying to tell me something. Ironically, before I even saw the article, I had Henry help me make the stew we had for dinner last night. He cleaned carrots, picked out potatoes, and poured barley. Then, approximately one hour later, he vehemently spurned it all. To be perfectly honest though, after it was all finished and sitting in a bowl on my placemat at the dinner table, for whatever reason I looked at it and didn't really want it anymore either. I ate it all though, because I'm a good little girl.

It was tough getting out of bed this morning. The air is pretty crisp now when we get up, and the fact that it was foggy and gray made me feel foggy and gray. The thing to do on a day like this is to crank up the old oven and make some granola. My friend Kim clued me in to this recipe for cranberry/almond granola on epicurious. I haven't ever tried to make it, but I was at her house when she made it and the whole place smelled heavenly. So not only will it smell amazing around here for a while, but there's going to be some major snacking going on very soon.