This post is part of my series, “Kickin’ It Old Skool: Why and How We Are Old-Fashioned” or KIOS for short.  If you’re new to the series, please read my disclaimer before continuing on.  I’m keeping a table of contents to this series here so you can see what I’ve already written about and what more there is to come.

In my last KIOS post, I included the following sentence, “I know that many of my friends and family have been asking me to write about the whys and hows of the way we eat.  So I’m going to tackle that first.”

That is actually completely not what I was planning on doing!  All along, I’ve been thinking that I would start with parenting and then move  along to food.  So I’m really not sure why I made that claim and then didn’t even realize it until days later.

So no, we are not going to start with food.  Sorry to raise your hopes and then dash them.  Here’s why I’m not starting with food:

Have you ever tried to eat locally in February?  Did you fail miserably?  That’s what we tried to do.  I read that book, announced “no tomatoes in winter” and then we decided to change the way we ate, in February. I don’t recommend that,at all.  We’re doing fine right now but we worked hard all last summer and fall, freezing and canning so that we would have plenty to eat through the winter.  If I was trying to eat locally right now, eating strictly what I could buy at the farmer’s market, I’d be subsisting on cabbage, turnips, beets, potatoes, and carrots: edible, delicious, and nutritious but sometimes a bit boring.

Attempting to start your “eat locally” change in eating in February is akin to deciding that you want to move to Alaska but then deciding to move to Fairbanks in January, when it’s 40 below zero and dark all the time and miserable.  You’re really not going to love it, right?  But if you move there in May and have a glorious spring/summer/fall of wonderful never-ending sunlight and gorgeous mountains and hiking all the time, well then, you can endure the winter with the hope of summer coming again.

I’m planning on getting to writing about food sometime in early May, right about when asparagus, radishes, and greens are coming back in and then tomatoes and peppers and strawberries and eggplants and beans and cucumbers and…(you get the idea).

Back to parenting, another reason why I want to start with parenting is that I have several friends who are in varying stages of pregnancy and/or new babyhood so I figured now is as good a time as any to tackle these topics.

Next week, I’ll start with attachment parenting.  And yes, this is a fairly light post with not much real substance but I’m out of time for the day and it’s all you’re going to get.

If you want some parenting reading for the weekend, go to the Eight Principles of Parenting and that will pretty much give you a overview of much of what I’m planning on writing about over the next couple months.