In preparation for Sadie’s seventh birthday, I decided to make pop tarts. Still though, I pressed holes back together. I patched here and there. I felt doubtful. I was instructed to measure carefully so that I would have nice, even rectangles. No matter how I try to have nice, even anything in my life, my…
apple rhubarb pandowdy
I like a thing that can reinvent itself with confidence. Sometimes, it just doesn’t work out to be what you set out to create. The day gets messy, and dinner gets abandoned for something altogether different. Or a career seems all laid out, and then a little person decides that your career will actually be…
egg-free-not-so-sweet birthday cake
Oh, birthday parties. I try, I really do try. Children, presents, sugar. It’s hard to make all those elements come together without tears. This time, the tears started early, far before the first ruffle-dressed guest ever arrived. Remember that sweet girl who turned five the other day? Full of love and gratitude? Well she was…
oreos
Over the last couple of days, something has become very clear to me. I live in a part of the world where people are conscious about the food they eat. The Co-op gets as much business as the Price Chopper, and each of our many CSA’s have long wait lists, full of people just begging…
mocha custard
Whoosh. Joey caught a bit of the women’s olympic skeleton course the other day. I’ve never even heard of the sport before now, but apparently what he saw were women flying face first on tiny metal sleds down a death defying track. With each new athlete, the announcer revealed that yet another mother was hopping…
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