Freyja did NOT want whiskers drawn on her face. Zac and Matt shell the last of our summer catch- fresh crab for ragoons with chili sauce for our party later that night. Aileen and Jason make serious plans for their jack-o-lanterns
THis requires explantion. Matt Barley brought a hideously ugly child's halloween [...]  Our prayers and those of many others have been answered– we are so grateful for all the prayers that have been lifted up on our behalf and thrilled to announce: It’s a boy! I’m due April 3rd 2010 and for right now this little guy is going by the name Peabody, given to him by his father.  Let’s see, Heinz and Sandy, David and Michelle, Caitlin, Zac and Freyja, Aileen and Jason, Meghan, Eric, Anwyn, Canon, Athan, Fox, Andrew and I, Jarrett, Taite and Matthias were all standing in our kitchen getting ready to have pizza and having prayed, Erin asked to make one small request, “Could she borrow some maternity clothing?” I [...] I think my day is pretty typical of many women. Your To-do list probably has many of the same things mine does, which include things like washing, ironing and putting away other people’s clothing, cleaning up after them, buying their food, preparing their food, etc etc. etc. Sometimes at the end of day, you can’t think of one [...]  The Charlie Brown Holiday Collection. I think this will be the movie we'll watch this week for our movie night. I think I'm as excited as the kids to pull these out of the closet and start watching them. Because we enjoy them so much, I just bought the whole boxed collection on [...]
OK, are you ready for something a little more challenging than my usual Monday morning posts? Try to get your mind around this! This book totally fascinated me. Math captivates me, though I can not grasp the depths of it and this book covers an aspect that I can not [...] He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the service of man That he may bring forth food from the earth, And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face shine, And bread which strengthens man’s heart. Psalm [...] A beautiful ghost pumpkin We all had a pretty fun time picking out our pumpkins. Almost next in importance to finding a Christmas tree, is picking out a pumpkin and I would always rather find one in a field than a WalMart parking lot. If they look amazing, they were. What would [...] Aileen has always been the one to take on the yearly gingerbread house construction, my wedding cake, or any other project that requires the patience of Job and will just get eaten in the end.(Actually the gingerbread houses usuallyget blown up sometime in January by Jarrett and Matt’s collection of small explosives, but anyways…) So it was a little more up [...] Last week as I pulled out of the driveway, I glanced up and noticed my big beautiful birthday gift from John and Wendy didn’t look the same, the tips of the tree were a lighter color. I am so accustomed to plants in my care dying that I immediately panicked and quickly saw the future, [...] “So when are you guys going to have kids/ have more kids?” I’d be very curious to know if there are any couples out there who appreciate this question. For people who have no problem having children this question could seem a little prying, although it gets asked enough that they usually have stock response ready. For people who have trouble [...] Freyja (front) with Rachel's girls Sadie and Raeme. They had each picked out a few items for themselves to wear that day which included a few fairy/princess costumes. And they still managed to look adorable! I’m always so impressed with mothers who make an effort to dress their kids in really cute, pulled-together [...] While Erin was visiting, she and Meghan, Taite, Fox and I went to a few antique shops and at one I found these darling little glass cups, so tiny that I had no idea what they would be for. On the little tag with the price, it said, “salt cellar,” and that really excited me. [...] At the risk of taking our sweet blog on cooking and creating up a notch into the nasty realm of politics, what in the world was the Norwegian Nobel committee thinking!? An excellent article by Ronald Kessler says, “As suggested by the Times of London, the award to Obama was an obvious slap in the face [...] I guess “easy” and “what you have on hand” are relative terms. For me, those concepts mean: takes 20minutes or less, can be flopped in a tuperware container and eaten while driving down the freeway, and requires no/almost no fresh ingredients (because likely, the ones I have at home are not the ones I’ll need). [...]  A lovely lady I work with was nice enough to give me this Filipino recipe using a bean I had never run across before, mung beans. Apparently they are a great source of protein and eating them with rice provides all the essential amino acids, for those of you who care about that sort of [...]
I was going to do “breakfast for dinner” one night because all I had on hand for protein was eggs and bacon when I found this incredible little life saver. (Since after all, there is something kind of dismal about eating breakfast food as the sun goes down instead of during the start [...] This last minute in the door with no time to prepare is my super simple baked chicken. Turn on the oven to 350º- 375º and then grab a whole chicken. Taking the whole chicken (minus the paper sack of gizzards etc from the cavity), I sprinkle liberally inside and out with whatever I feel like. I [...] After I made Freyja’s infamous green and yellow ”Frankie Blankie” (that stands for Frankenstein, because of it’s hideous stitched and patched messy appearance) Zac said I had to make a blanket for each baby we have. It just wouldn’t be fair if they didn’t each have a little memento of their mother’s non-existent sewing skills. Unsightly as the Frankie Blankie [...] |
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