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Still waiting
She’s still pregnant. Thank goodness. And while the hourly ups and downs, including zingers like “we need to deliver you today” (now heard appx. every 18 hours) and “we are concerned about your liver failing” are nearly impossible for even my sister and her husband to keep track of, as of right now, those babies…
Read MoreFood Friday: Magnesium sulfate and sugar water
Today’s Food Friday was going to be an Ina Garten cookie recipe, and it’s a good one. But instead, I’m with my sister in the hospital while she staves off preterm labor on a cocktail of magnesium sulfate, and gets a drip of sugar water in lieu of food. She can’t eat, because she is…
Read MoreCatching leprechauns
What requires an upside-down basket, some string, two baby blankets, three full cups of water, approximately thirty two-inch dinosaurs set up in a VERY SPECIFIC arrangement around the room and a rocking chair? (Actually, make that four full cups of water.) Traps for leprechauns, of course, according to Will. Didn’t you set any up at…
Read MoreCuzins
I’ve been weeding through photographs, and keep making perfectly delightful discoveries along the way—like these, for example! This is my cousin, Alanna, and her son, Justin, at our house at Christmas. I can always count on my cousin Alanna for any number of things—her excellent writing, her brilliant wit (any of her Facebook friends would…
Read MoreSay moo!
We spent some time in Vermont at the end of school vacation week, visiting the cousins (not pictured here, these are just friends of the family), gathering eggs, feeding sweet clover to cows and playing in lots and lots of snow. These girls loved the attention from our little guys, but didn’t know what to…
Read MoreHow to charm me
Tell me that you are going to be an astronaut when you grow up. So you can save the world from MEDIATORS. (I think he meant meteors. But maybe he knows something I don’t know.) Will, age 4.5
Read MoreCuppa joe
So yesterday I bid a teary farewell to my beloved Keurig coffee brewer. After just three years of loyal service, it gasped, spat and died in my arms. I called Keurig’s service team, who assured me they could do nothing about it, then kept asking what they could do for me in unbearably perky tones.…
Read MoreWhy we have blogs
If you haven’t noticed, I’ve had a case of the blahs lately. Something to do with this endless winter we’re having in New England, maybe, and tired of taking photos inside? So I haven’t had much inspiration to spend time here, until I get a lovely, thoughtful comment like this one, out of the blue,…
Read MoreFood Friday: Slow-Cooker Moroccan Spiced Chicken with Apricots
I know. Stand back. I’M ACTUALLY POSTING ON A FRIDAY. ABOUT FOOD. I’ve really missed it, and been longingly drooling over other food blogs, but Fridays have just seemed to be the day where I have the most fleeting possible relationship with the computer, and while I know I could write Food Fridays ahead of…
Read MoreHot time in the city
We ventured forth to the big city last week, to visit with some college friends in town, to celebrate the birthday of a young lady who just turned 10 and to go for a ride on the rails. Will takes his train rides VERY seriously. It all went off without a hitch, and we even…
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