{"id":4148,"date":"2011-10-07T23:53:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T03:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/photocardblog\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2011-10-07T23:53:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T03:53:36","slug":"om-one-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/om-one-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"OM :: The One Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My 6yo spilled his milk this morning. The gallon jug was too big for him to easily handle and he knocked his cup over when trying to fill it. After we cleaned up the mess, I realized that we only have one container of milk in the refrigerator. That may not seem significant, but the more I thought about it, the more loaded that 2% milk seemed.
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\nTwenty years ago, I would have insisted there be skim milk in my fridge. Dreams of skinniness and media hype made it seem like THAT was one of the healthiest secrets. Now I know that a little fat in your diet is a very good thing and 2% is a sweet little number.
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\nNine years ago, you had to push past all the pumped breast milk to get to anything in the fridge. My first child, Abe, when he was four months old, suddenly went on a breast strike and I had to pump all my milk into bottles for the remainder of my six month goal. It was emotionally heartbreaking and a pumping pain in the behind.
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\nSix years ago, the breast milk returned with a vengeance. Eli was a preemie (three months early) and I pumped from the get-go. He lived in the NICU those first few months, and in the first days, it was me and my industrial pump in the maternity ward. I would bring bags of milk to the nurses’ station every two hours to exclamations of “Whoa.” This overabundance of milk in the beginning was serendipitous, as my production eventually slowed to a painful trickle. The frozen liquid gold kept Eli in Mama Nutrients until he was nine months old.
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\nFive years ago, breast milk was replaced by whole milk for Eli. The more calories, the better for that little snapper. The doctors wanted him to thrive. He drank that milk until he was four and thrive he did.
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\nSoy milk for a latte craze, rice milk for when the toddlers were sick, half & half for the loads of coffee we used to drink. Now, one milk to drink, one milk to spill, one milk for cooking and one milk for mustaches. “Got Milk?” Yup, just the one.
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\n\"om<\/a>OM is *one moment* and is a meetup designed to notice & relish a moment in everyday life. The meetup idea was created by Linda at her blog, a la mode stuff<\/a>.
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\nIf you’d like to participate in OM, just click the button and you’ll be taken to Linda’s post explaining it all.
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