The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
I am a playful mom. Â I tickle. Â I chase. Â I roar. Â I act goofy. Â This is not really how I imagined myself being as I tend to be fairly thoughtful and serious in most of my life. Â I don’t enjoy playing board games (except maybe Scrabble…) and I’m not generally goofy with my friends. Â But [...]
If everyone’s friends were as much fun as mine, they would have much better birthday parties. So we celebrating Luc and Alex’s half-birthdays yesterday.  There was cake (three kinds!), there were presents, and we had much laughter. The boys received squirt guns. They boys have lots of mischievous friends who started a minor war. The boys’ friends [...]
I had the pleasure of hosting a small cooking class on Saturday morning and it was great fun. Â I’d never done something quite like that before but my lovely guests made it such a cheery time. Â I served scones and coffee to start, then we made wild Mushroom Risotto, and ended the day with a [...]
I have been a slacker-blogger for most of this year. Â I didn’t really mean to. Â It’s my life’s fault. It all started with school. Â The spring semester did its level best to kill me, and in my struggle to survive I barely blogged for four months. Â Then summer arrived with its glossy promise of free-time [...]
I know it’s not Christmas…I just felt like it. Cookies 2 & 1/4 cups flour 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup shortening 1/2 cup molasses 1 egg 1 & 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon ground cloves 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt Mix all ingredients [...]
This book, sent to me by fellow-blogger Missy Ween, was fascinating, hard to put down, and paradoxically hard to read. Â The first third of the book was an enthralling history of the scientific inquiry into the nature of the atom. Â It was also a minor crash-course in basic nuclear physics, as seen through the minds [...]
So we (my husband and I, our boys, and my in-laws) took a lengthy road trip (lengthy for traveling with a pair of toddlers) around southern Utah and Arizona. Â We visited: Zion National Park, the Pink Coral Sand Dunes, The Grand Canyon (South Rim), The Vermillion Cliffs, and Glen Canyon. Â We saw a LOT of [...]
This isn’t very timely, but as I just recently arrived home from a long vacation it’s taken me awhile to get back into the swing of daily life. Â I just had to spend a few days lounging about in pajamas and doing nothing but sip coffee. For Memorial Day we had my lovely in-laws over [...]