Weekend Kat Blogging: Using a Spoon!

Every milestone is exciting, but this one in particular is very exciting to me.
Kat has been primarily feeding herself for a couple of months, but she was using her hands exclusively. Now, she is using her spoon for most foods that grownups use utensils for, and can even slurp milk from a spoon with her […]

Ruminations on Life, Death, and Life Again

There is a reason I haven’t written anything since Monday.
Even though I had planned several posts, I found that I couldn’t write them.
On Monday, my Mom told me that my Uncle John will be selling my grandparents farm, or rather, what is left of it, and moving away.
As she told me over […]

From Gaza: Sumakiyah

One of the best parts of working at Salaam is that I get to do research into new cuisines and dishes for dinner specials which I may not have ever sought out otherwise.
In point of fact, while I was interested in the food culture of the Middle East before I began working at […]

Weekend Kat Blogging: The Girl Grows Curls!

When Kat was born, other than the fact that she was small, the first thing we noticed was the curly red hair
After her hair dried, however, the curls fell out, and instead, her hair looked quite like mine used to be: stick straight. Everyone was a little sad about this, because most of the […]

The Wallhanging Top Is Done!

Here is the completed top to the wallhanging I am making for Zak; you can see that I added the appliqué dragonfly two days ago. I drew a pattern on a used piece of printer paper, and cut it out. Then, I applied fusable webbing to the wrong side of two different fabrics–these are really […]