susu - so good

When my school switched from serving cartons of milk to those self-serve upright milk machines we were allowed to drink as much milk (chocolate-skim-2 percent) as we wanted. The new machines were so popular that some students, usually boys, would end lunch by simply parking next to the milk for an extended..........eh......nursing. Perhaps it was a way to talk to people as they approached the machines, perhaps it was early party-boy behavior with milk standing in for beer, or maybe these boys from Stearns County, many of whom lived on dairy farms, just felt a connection to home. A friend from Paynesville reported the same phenomenon in his school. There, they referred to milk as magic.

On our milk front: In September we were serving July milk (a great month for milk, btw :), but in December we are only one month ahead. It's just harder for a mom to pump and store and work a full time job, without spending a weekend also pumping. The timing works out well. As the dates on the stored milk catch up to us, and we feed PC more solid foods, we face the end of breast milk in PC's diet. It's been a good run, now we move on to some formulas. Any good recommendations?

Remember, this stuff has to be good, considering that the old milk probably made us better Americans.