Yesterday was crazy. I have been officially freaking out about the local school budget re-vote. Please don’t tell me not to freak out. That is impossible. A few of us parents started talking about getting together to try to get out “yes” votes, and then they had a meeting that I missed, which is when … [Read more…]
Last night at dinner we started talking about making butter. I don’t know why. I think J started it by asking, “What’s butter made of?” Milk, Cute W and I answered. You just churn the butter and the fat in the milk sort of clots together to form butter. Maybe that’s what I said, because … [Read more…]
This weekend whizzed by and wasn’t nearly restful enough for me, don’t know about you folks. Do you have your summer planned yet? Me neither, but here’s a big list of camps (I like the week-by-week listing better, myself). Hey, did you know that now there’s a new women’s elite soccer league? I’m sure we’ll … [Read more…]
Phew! The master bath took longer than we expected, but it’s finally done, and we love it! At the end of the project we’d added a backsplash that we really didn’t like, so that had to get ripped down and replaced, and the new windows had a shipping snafu that had our contractor wringing his … [Read more…]
I don’t know why leaving for gymnastics at 4:55 every Wednesday comes to a complete surprise to me every. single. gd. week. I’ve been doing it for months. Ideally, my plan is always to have dinner mostly-available by 4:30 pm so J can eat, and I try to make it something that’s easy to snack … [Read more…]
You probably would have seen M practicing the cup song “When I’m Gone” (and yes now she’s desperate to see Pitch Perfect, and how inappropriate is it? It’s not like we’ve never shown them anything inappropriate) : And for much of the day I was hunched over the computer emailing everyone local (and at least … [Read more…]
Last year I took a year off from participating in a CSA because I was a bit overscheduled and I didn’t think that I could handle the Massive Produce Influx that a CSA can involve. But this year the stars aligned and it seemed that The Universe wanted me to get o a CSA share, … [Read more…]
I met Cute W on my first day at Grinnell College. His dorm room was right across the hall from mine, so I was still struggling with boxes and belongings when he strode out and shook hands with my parents. He struck me as an Eddie Haskell right away. People from New Jersey were more … [Read more…]
. . . to know where I got the idea for this tasty treat? I’m not a big OJ drinker, myself, but I had a bunch left over when my (brilliant) Mimosa-makings for Niska-Day parade-watching last weekend. Unsurprisingly, we ran out of Champagne before juice. How’s Memorial Day Weekend going? We were pretty excited to … [Read more…]
We’d already started on the bathroom remodel project when Cute W said his mom needed ideas for a Mother’s Day gift for me. I immediately thought of my soon-to-be counter space that would come with my little window seat. After all, how much sitting around would I actually want to do in the bathroom? (I … [Read more…]
