 This, to me, is just the taste of summer. We had the most perfect Memorial weekend consisting of back porch barbeques, swimming, hot weather, ice cream sandwiches, and strawberry rhubarb pie. A friend gave me some rhubarb which I had to freeze till I had time to turn it into something AMAZING and this had to [...]  December 2003 – Melissa (center) stands with her cousins and grandpa beside their shanty in a slum on the outskirts of Nairobi. Melissa is a four year old and was raped by a neighbor in the community trash heap, which is used as a public restroom. (photo and text, property of IJM) I was reading [...]  In works of art, bread often symbolizes life. It is the most elemental of “made” foods. To “break bread” with someone is to share in the most fundamental of rituals and establish a relationship with them. I guess a modern equivalent might be to “share a beer” (often described as “liquid bread”.) Not until Mr Atkins did [...]  Pomp and Circumstance -Elgar #gallery-1 { Andrew is so thrilled he has a lab geek for a daughter! Hurrah! The speeches are over! Little sister graduates Jarrett and Aileen Aileen and her littlest brother Two youngest daughters Two lab rats So impressed with Aileen’s work in the lab he [...] Mom and baby boy #3 Canon, now a big 5 year old, sat quietly and drew this picture of his mom and the expected little brother. "We are having a new baby, it is a girl" Anwyn, soon to be seven, was a bit disappointed that she would not be having a sister so in her [...] A turkey farm in Pennsylvania that I visited. I thought this was a beautiful photo with the swirls of white and pink and was quite pleased with the picture but Eric just thought it was weird.
Is has been a year now that our house has been up for sale and on February 14 we moved into our new home. We became the owners of two homes. There was a reason we never owned two homes before, there was a reason we never bought a vacation house and it’s [...] I took this photo a week or so ago when Zac noticed it on the way home from work. Lots of people in Seattle are intruiged by the tagger known as Cold Killer. And now I’m wondering. . . . . . why am I feeling sucked in too? In some minds he is Seattle’s graffiti darling, a favorite with his [...] #gallery-2 { Tim surprised me with an early birthday gift and flew me to Argentina this morning. It was an over-night flight and we got up-graded to business, so after a night of flying/sleep we hit the ground running this morning. [...] I recently attended a wedding where the Best Man made a (very long) toast without ever using a single subjective noun. It went something like this: “So, just wishing Ken and Barbie (not their real names) the best on their big day. Hoping great things for their future. Really glad God chose to bring them together in this way. So [...] I think this bracelet came from my granny's jewelry box. How fun are these? They are huge clip-ons that pinch and pull on your ears but I'm waiting for a chance to wear them. I love this necklace of ivy leaves, it looks somewhat Grecian to me. I found it at a little shop [...] I have actually been vetoed on a few of my recent ideas for this blog; my daughters thought I was being mean. I probably was, so in an attempt to look somewhat kind, friendly and fun I thought I would turn my attention to food. We are big into it around here; it has been [...]
Taite is our secret weapon, the fifth daughter. We have her hidden away until we need to bring out the big guns.
Water Falling on Oranges Taite gets these little photography ideas in her head and off she goes, “mom, would it hurt the oranges if I poured hot water on them?” ”No, they’ll probably be [...]
Zac turned thirty last Thursday so we celebrated with a surprise dinner with a few friends. This and surf and turf menu turned out wonderfully, it was great because I could do a lot of the prep before the party and I found some terrific wines to go with each course that really compliment [...] My girlfriend, Chesed, is going to have a little girl and a friend, Emily, and I hosted her shower. This was the picture I took for invitations, with the party information typed on velum over top and green card stock underneath. Emily brought over the flowers and we made little place cards of green cardstock and gold embossed birds.
So here is the little guy in the universal sucking thumb position Here he is curled in a ball Be careful what you wish for or don’t wish for. “No boys,” I told Eric at the beginning of our marriage, “Boys scare me.” Well, that’s a sure way you end up with plenty of them. [...]
I had a book sent to me to review for Amazon, Bad Good Mother, and the cover quotes, “The Good Mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer, she [...] |
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