 We got a very special opportunity to see Sarah Palin at her book signing. Reading the news, one would think that there might be, oh, twelve people waiting for the book signing that would begin at noon. At 9:00 AM the line was a mile long, easily and three deep! People, if you read or listen to [...] HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! This is our traditional Thanksgiving stuffing. I make the cornbread (usually) ahead and freeze, but this year, Jarrett was in charge of the cornbread baking. Andrew does the rest and is always overly generous with the sausages. You will never go back to bread cubes and the packet again! Guaranteed. 1/2 C [...] I am thinking that in the end, man belongs in the city not snuggly and happily in the country but getting out there around the masses in the city. Someone once challenged, “Prove to me that we should be living in the city rather than the country, prove to me that that is more biblical.” I love [...] I made age appropriate food and had them in brown bags with extra goodies and their name on the front for children; youngest got tortilla wraps with cream cheese, cheese and ham; beefier grade school boys got Italian sausage on a bun, and the adults got filet mignon. The guests very graciously brought all the side [...]
Sharon! We will be giving a way another terrific gift soon, so stay on your toes!
 I’m exploding with design ideas lately. I think part of it is that I am looking forward to spending more time at home once little Peabody arrives and I have so many projects I want to do! I’ve been getting very distracted by ideas like upholstering a headboard (like this one from Design Sponge), creating an office space [...]  One of the many, small things that I have missed about Moscow is Bucer’s cuban style espresso. I miss all of it: I miss making it, and smelling it, and tasting it, and watching others do the same. I graduated in May, but even now I’m starting to forget many of my favorite little things [...]  Does this picture give you the eebie-jeebies? Me too, but read on, there is hope for those of you who don't fancy yourself a "scrap-booker"… I’m still not sure how she managed to do it, but somehow, my mom created hand-made photo albums for every one of her seven children and a couple for herself to keep. I’m [...]  It won a Caldecott Honor. The pictures are spectacular. I was pretty excited about this book. I got it just the other day in the mail and debated wrapping it up and giving it to the kids for Christmas but thought better of it. I wanted to read it and couldn’t wait till Christmas. I [...] As I was taking one last peruse of the Michelangelo exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum, Matthias was off in a room building a tower of blocks to reach to heaven. There in a corner of the room where the window runs floor to ceiling sitting on a chair absolutely absorbed with the city life right [...] Well, do ya? We are giving away a trendy little weekly organizer. I like this little organizer because it is not year specific. All you need to do is respond in the comments and you will be entered to win. I will appoint some honest person around here to pull one of the comments out of a [...] Who knew this place even existed? I had read about Dumbarten Oaks and have wanted to go there since I discovered the gardens are free to tour in the fall and winter. Finally, this past Saturday we actually went and I was amazed that such a place could hide, tucked back in the Georgetown neighborhood. [...] “I can’t wait to go to Seattle this weekend so I can sit in the car for a really long time and read my book” – Matthias Huuunh!??? This from the boy who was hard pressed to ever read anything, I mean, a paragraph was really pushing things and suddenly I find him laying on his [...] Have you ever totally worn yourself out with an apology? Have you ever thought, and thought, and thought about why was it exactly that you were motivated to act in that certain way that resulted in you being a total JERK! Oh, I was so tired that I snapped, or I was PMS-ing, or you know I [...] Eric thought the knife looked a little creepy. I don't know, I really like the knife.
Have you seen potatoes more beautiful than these? For our Sunday dinner, we bought a small bag of heirloom potatoes and they were well worth the extra money. They taste like normal potatoes but the fun I had photographing [...] I have been reading (and loving) Supper of the Lamb by Robert Capon and my son-in-law, Tim, recently recommended that the guys read For the Life of the World by Alexander Schmemann to discuss at Christmas over cigars and port (Tim didn’t mention the cigars and port part). Both books begin by insisting that eating is [...] We have always drunk whole milk, not the blue stuff and at long last our suspicions have been verified: Children who drink full fat milk weigh less than those who do not, a new study has found. ScienceDaily (Nov. 4, 2009) Children as young as eight who drink milk every day have a lower body mass index than [...] The lighting was pretty good and the kids were mostly happy Athanasius and Canon Anwyn and Fox I took these Thursday morning when I should have been teaching school, but the lighting was pretty good so I interrupted the kids’ play to call them down for a photo shoot. Canon balked at wearing the striped [...] If someone had stopped by my house Friday afternoon, they would have found me, hovering over a pot of sudsy water, with a huge wooden spoon while vapours of fresh soap steamed up all the windows. “Come on in,” I would have said, pushing my long braids out of my face, ”I’m just making up a big batch of [...] |
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