the life and times of a domestic diva extraordinaire
Posted in Cooking/Baking on Oct 9th, 2008
It’s 100% whole wheat bread. Hopefully it tastes as good as it looks. I used the recipe written on the bag of flour shown, mostly.* Don’t you wish you were having lunch at our house? *I used butter on the top of the loaves when they got out of the oven instead of shortening (as […]
Posted in Wordless Wednesday on Oct 8th, 2008
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Another sweater off the needles. This one for Ben. It’s the Seamless Hybrid by Elizabeth Zimmermann from Knitting Without Tears. Knit with Valley Yarn’s Northampton (from Webs), 100% wool, in color Sour Apple [Ben’s choice, not mine]. It is by no means perfect. In fact, if it were up to me, it would not even […]
Posted in Life at Our House on Oct 6th, 2008
Last week I was reminded that we have twelve weeks (or so) until Christmas. In the days since, I’ve been pondering our plans for this year. This year is going to be a fun Christmas. Two years ago, Joey was born at the end of October, then in December he had pyloric stenosis and right […]
Posted in Politics on Oct 3rd, 2008
I’m generally not one to discuss politics with people. Unless you see eye to eye on most things, the conversation usually isn’t much fun. But sometimes I wonder how people come to their conclusions, what they’re seeing that I’m not seeing. And I wish that rational discussions between the two sides could be had, because […]
Posted in Wordless Wednesday on Oct 1st, 2008