With Joey away this week, I decided to take the girls up to Sarah and Jefferson‘s in Maine for a few days. I find that as I get older, I get more comfortable with my fears, and this worries me a bit. Although I used to fearlessly journey wherever and whenever I had the urge,…
Steamin' Mad
Yes I love food. And I love to cook. But feeding this family might just do me in. How does that work? There must be some way to continue to channel my adoration for food into the bellies of my family, but the schedules, the lunchboxes, the lovingly prepared food spat out by one child…
DC travels: PART 2… FOOD
Rosie knew this wouldn’t turn out well. We started off our trip with a diner lunch right away. You know when you find one of those diners? And you weren’t expecting it, but it’s just so fabulous, and they have the best milkshakes and make really incredible muffins? Well this was not one of those…
DC travels: PART 1… FAMILY
So I just got back from a family trip to Washington DC. We went to visit Joey’s brother’s family, and then their sister came out as well with her two kids. I know that I never had the joy of sibling aggression and drama growing up, but even after being around it for a while,…
Cupcakes for Spring
My grandmother called herself a pagan, and the way she demonstrated this spiritual identity to herself was by throwing me a Spring party every year. I’m not quite sure how this tradition started, but somewhere along the way she started making black bottom cupcakes, and I still remember munching them with my friends under the…
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