Posted in miscellaneous on Dec 31st, 2009
It’s always so hard to choose favorites. I feel bad for all the great stuff I left out. Then I second guess myself, then I tell myself to stick with my gut. In the end, just like last year, I settled on 9 favorites and 6 honorable mentions. 9 favorites: Chopped salad – I know [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on Jan 1st, 2009
I scanned through my posts from 2008 and managed to narrow it down to about fifty favorites. Then Dave told me that I should choose just ten to recommend. Ten?! Ten?! I was barely able to get it to fifty! But I think he’s right – it’s the best way to make sure the true [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on Nov 27th, 2008
How did your Thanksgiving turn out? Did you have any mishaps? Did you finish cooking at the time you’d planned? Was there any drama? Dave and I are spending Thanksgiving by ourselves for the first time this year, and we went for the traditional dinner. We decided we should eat at 4:00, so I scheduled [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on Jun 8th, 2008
Ah, that was possibly the best vacation ever. Six days with nothing to do but play in the waves, take pictures of my nephews, and drink beer on the beach. Everyone got along at least as well as could be expected, and I found that family vacations are that much more enjoyable when my husband [...]
