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Home Again Pee-Soaked and Happy
Home. I'm finally home after several weeks of travel. All to see family. All of it good. But I'm glad to be home and in one place again, with time to think and reflect and process the experiences. And to do laundry. Because our very precocious and gifted almost...
If My Name Was Alexander on this Fantastic Friday
Rereading this post about a series of no good, very bad days in July of 2008 made me smile. It made me think of how my mother used to say, "This too will pass," when I got riled out about nothing much. I hope it makes you smile, too. If my name was Alexander,...
Non-Dairy Shrimp Scampi
Well, I jumped straight from the family camp frying pan into the helping with the 3-monty-old grandbaby fire. Which means that while the Gravel Road kitchen remains closed, this grammy is flexing her cooking muscles on a daily basis. Especially today which is the...
Top 10 Reasons This Post Almost Didn’t Get Written
I'm spending the week with my daughter, son-in-law and their 3-month-old baby. You know. Helping out so Daddy and Mommy can get some things done. Like sleeping, showering, and going to the bathroom while I take care of the adorable grandson. Who is also quite...
Kohlrabi, the Family Vegetable
Today's post comes from a very distinguished guest blogger, who also happens to be my sister, known to anyone who reads the comment section of this blog as "Sis." Sis recently wrote this ode to our family vegetable, and gave me permission to publish it here. Reading...
Fantastic Friday: Queen Anne’s Lace
This post, written a few days before my daughter's wedding on July 11, 2010, will forever and always be one of my favorites. I think you'll see why it is this week's Fantastic Friday choice. Four days until the wedding, and what did I find? A dandy patch of Queen...