Holiday Week Woes

I have a nearly finished post, with just the recipe left to write, that I was working on last Monday, but I never got to post it, because I took Morganna to the doctor, who then sent us to the ER.
She was having severe abdominal pain, and he thought it might be appendicitis–and it […]

Weekend Kat Blogging: Purple Girl

Kat picked out her clothes the other day, and she looked so cute, we had to take pictures.
You can’t see it, but the hoodie has a little fox applique along the hem, and the skirt has a scenic series of embroideries and appliques along the hem showing rabbits frolicking in a field of flowers […]

Cooking From The Pantry

So, while I wasn’t writing posts for the past month, there were lots of other things I wasn’t doing.
I wasn’t cooking a lot at home.
I wasn’t eating a lot at home.
I wasn’t cleaning up a lot at home.
I wasn’t taking a lot of photographs.
I wasn’t sleeping very much.
There were also a lot of other things […]

Weekend Kat Blogging: Kat and Dog

Kat doesn’t just like cats–she likes dogs, too, and dogs like her.
Here you see Kat sitting with her grandparents’ dog, Sky, the first morning we were at their home in New Hampshire.
The two of them got along famously–Sky listened to Kat and the two of them played together very well and had a […]

Finally, I Can Write About Food Again

I have been crying, off and on for five days.
Out of anxiety, trepidation, exhaustion, joy and pride, for nearly the past week, tears will clog my throat and dim my vision at odd moments. A song, a word, a face, a thought–all of these will inspire the overwhelming flow of emotions welling up in […]