89/365 Dyed Color
“Easter Colors”
86/365 Hunt
“Hunting For Food” The only hunting going on around here is hunting for recipes for the weekend’s meals. I want to try making Scotch Eggs.
45/365 Love
“Words of Love” I am not one of those people who saves every card and letter that I get, though sometimes I wish I was. It’s not that I’m not sentimental; it’s that I don’t like all of the clutter. I know, I know, I shouldn’t consider cards clutter. I guess I am lucky to be able to say that through my lifetime I have received so many cards and letters that I honestly don’t know what I would do…
Welcoming 2013
We are having a night of fun, food, family, friends and games at home tonight. The girls are here with some friends and we had Erin’s birthday dinner that she was too sick to enjoy on the 23rd. Earlier today I decided that is was time to do a little housekeeping – get rid of 2012’s dirt so that there is room for the new that 2013 will surely bring. When things were clean, we were all hungry but didn’t…
More Fun With Christmas Lights
This is the closest thing to a Christmas tree around our house. Hopefully I will get things cleaned up in the next couple days so that we can put up our tree.
Random Thanksgiving Leftovers
As it’s title suggests, this post contains random thoughts and pictures from our Thanksgiving Day. There is almost nothing better than homemade bread – kneading it, smelling it as it cooks and, of course, eating it.. Brooke made black pepper bread for her leek bread pudding and also made us a few extra buns to freeze and save for later. Erin was in charge of the mashed potatoes. She has the task of making the potatoes down – and the…
What Mom Really Wants
For the past couple of weeks the newspaper, TV, radio, and every business who has my email address has been telling me what mom really wants for Mother’s Day. According to Amazon mom wants a Kindle.According to Barnes and Noble she wants a Nook.According to Apple she wants the New iPad.According to Ross she wants a blouse and a purse.According to Kroger and FTD she wants flowers.According to Victoria’s Secret she wants lingerie.According to Staples she wants printer cartridges.According to…
One Cannot Live By Bread Alone
One also needs a cat! We shared a simple Easter meal for nine at our house. Simple means that we had black bean soup, chicken tortilla soup, a fresh green salad and warm homemade bread. That is about all we could muster after our Holy Week and Easter obligations at church. The weather turned dismal about the time everyone was on their way here. This delayed their arrival by a while. I tried to have everything ready so that we…
The Best Day
So here it is, New Year’s Day, the beginning of 2012. Funny, but nothing really seems new to me. (Possibly because I haven’t yet written the date on anything and had to change that last digit from “1” to “2” by tracing over it eight or ten times.) Another reason that I don’t have a feeling of newness today is because my life is structured by the academic rather than the calendar year: so my “new year” begins at the…
I’ll Be Stoned For Christmas
Up until this moment, only a very few people know that one of the things on my bucket list is to get stoned. Well really, I just want to smoke pot. I’m not sure whether to be embarrassed by or proud of the fact that to this day, roughly one week shy of my fiftieth birthday, despite having spent nearly a decade on college campuses as a music major, I have never been stoned. Now that it is about time…