Vintage-sheet quilt
Just a little something I’m putting together for our new queen sized bed for spring. The top will be about, oh, 85”x95”, made of alternating rows of 4.5” rectangles and 7” rectangles, all different lengths. I think there are 5 different vintage sheets involved and two or three different bits of calico. You might remember […]
Heartland express
Funny the things one gets nostalgic for: I-75 South in the winter, huge grey sky, snow blowing across the highway, miles and miles of farmland and nothing but tractor-trailers to punctuate the view. I could drive up and down this stretch of road all day.
Getting all the snow I was wishing for in Maryland
So. Somehow I survived another 8-hour car ride with Owen and Cormac. I think it was helped by making the trip in a tricked-out Honda Odyssey — DVD player, heated seats, spacious accomodations, automatic doors. Instead of navigating, I got to sit in the back seat and watch Cormac throw things at me. Owen sat […]
Old Home Weekend
Oh flat, featureless Ohio, I’ve missed you so!
I’m leaving tomorrow with the kids for a long weekend with my parents. I anticipate much Wii bowling and much family fun time and hopefully a tiny bit of sleeping in. God knows I could use it; these children are wearing me into the ground.
Save my brain
I have definitely emerged from the post-partum cloud, that mist that decends in the later half of the third trimester and persists well after the baby is born, the fog that keeps you microscopically attuned to your offspring’s output, to the exclusion of pretty much everything else happening in the outside world.
But now I fear: […]
Crockpot Challenge: South of the Border
Sunday night is Challenge Night! On the menu: Burrito Casserole. Ole!
Picture a lasagna, reimagined Mexican style, with tortillas for noodles and refried beans for ricotta. It isn’t as gross as it sounds, but I believe my intestinal tract would give me a stern talking to if I tried it for a second time.
1 […]
Dilute! Dilute! All-One! OK!*
With all this talk about superbugs caused by overuse of antibiotic soap, and of baby soaps causing some sort of chick hormones in babies, I’ve decided to switch the family to exclusive Dr Bronners usage.
It’s the stuff we always use when I go camping with Iain, and now when I bathe the boys and get […]
family selfportrait
This is my new favorite picture of all of us. Cormac is asleep — see his wee little face? — but otherwise this is each of us, quintessentially: me, shaggy and laughing; Iain, trying not to smile; and Owen way up in the business end.
Radio shame
Have you ever been dial surfing and find yourself lingering over the SCAN button a little too long when Hootie and the Blowfish comes on the station with Today’s Hits and Yesterday’s Favorites, because it reminds you of cruising I-75 in your mom’s Dodge Caravan, headed to Detroit to buy clogs?
Me neither.
I also never […]
Crockpot challenge: Cafeteria Food
Sunday night is Challenge Night! I was in the mood for caff trays and hairnets today, so I give you: Cheater Beef Stroganoff.
1 can beef broth
1 can french onion condensed soup
dash paprika
dash garlic powder
1.5 lbs of … chuck … steak? hmm.
dash red wine
sprinkling of bisquick. because we are out of flour. yup.
1 tbsp […]
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