We were packed the night before and ready to leave early in the morning. Our phone rang at 6:30 AM and I thought, “What! Meghan and Eric are already to go!?” Nope, Meghan was calling to say that Eric had been in urgent care with an infected foot and it was not doing well. Funny [...]
 This past weekend I was invited to go with some girlfriends to New York City. We stayed in a friend’s plush pad while her parents were away. The place was crazy! A huge apartment in the West Village….
….with a great roof-top you can get to through a skylight.
 This cover was too beautiful to not photograph. I makes me wish I had an amazing camera, a gorgeous fuzzy quince, and about an hour to devote to photographing it.
Our new reading book, "Supper of the Lamb". Another beautiful cover I can't resist.
Eric and I have really gotten into food. Not that you [...]  We have received some very bizarre comments to some of our posts and when I check the country of origin, I find that we have received comments from all across the world including Frankfurt, Germany; Kuwait; Moldavia and China. But of course, these folks are just messing with us, trying to get our readers to [...] 
One of my all time favorite go-to meals is piece of salmon simply done and combined with summery side dishes. Just drizzle the salmon with olive oil, a generous bit of crushed garlic, ground sea salt and pepper and some fresh finely chopped dil. You can either throw it on the grill, or just in [...] My grandpa's old cashmere sweater.
Made in Scotland. 100% cashmere. I don’t tend to be a sentimental person but I just couldn’t let this go to the Goodwill. It was my grandpa’s from several years ago and there is not a hole in it. It is a beautiful gray and as I said before, I [...]  I cry when I get a parking ticket. Almost every time. There’s no use telling myself it’s not worth ruining mascara. It is one of a few things in life that reduces me to the self control of a two year old and makes me unable to contain my a) anger b) self-pity and c) helplessness against a cold and faceless bureaucracy. And [...]
The Class After months of angst over whether or not to keep my children home for school, Andrew finally summed it up and gave me the push over the edge, “what do you have to lose, Terri, keep them home for a year and see how it goes. You aren’t going to screw up their [...] Yvette the adventurer Almost ready… blackberry picking is on the list for later this week! Going under Montlake bridge is kind of a bizarre experience, you can see the underside of all the cars overhead!
Going from Moscow ID to Seattle was like being brought from a desert wasteland to a lush rainforest [...] My newest acquisition. Ralph Lauren Baby.
One of my favorites, a cable knit one piece.
This little sweater will be so cute with the navy blue, velvet overalls. While I may not be doing much shopping for myself seeing that I only have 5 weeks to go and that I am saving all my pennies for [...] My baby is the size my fist. Just one ounce. I have precisely 26weeks of pregnancy to go and February 3 sounds like a long way off but that’s ok because the memory of childbirth is still a little too fresh from over a year ago. In the mean time, I’ll forget about back labor and start my [...]
I have just spent a whirlwind week talking and partying with all sorts of people in all sorts of places and I am totally talked out. I have: traveled to Idaho and lunched with my mother-in-law and visited my sister-in-law and nieces traveled to Oregon and listened to some great music and Brooklyn accents which make [...]
When it comes to Jane Austen, I was like someone who’s been eating home made bread all their life and doesn’t appreciate it until they’ve tried a slice of wonder bread. I had read Austen when I was young and watched the BBC 6 tape Pride and Prejudice enough times to use the dialogue in daily conversation with [...] If you drive north from DC and keep going until you are in the middle of no-where, then go a little further to where the power lines end, the roads turn to gravel and on every side you are surrounded by trees, you’ll reach Kettle Creek State Park. That’s where I was this past weekend. We left on [...] Mr. Putter and Tabby books by Cynthia Rylant From 'Mr. Putter and Tabby Pick the Pears'. I think this is my favorite of the series. Maybe because fall is my favorite time the the year. I’ve been into books about old people and these are some of the cutest ones. They are a must [...]
Today when Matthias came back from getting the mail, I saw immediately that there was a personal letter on the top of the stack of junk and bills looking too small to be a wedding invitation. I sit down, think for half a second and wonder why I am receiving a [...]
Half Broke Horses is a new book by Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle. I loved reading The Glass Castle and her new book is also excellent. |
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