It was an incredible Christmas, blizzard and all! Brian and I hosted Christmas Eve last night. Kenny, Michele, Jake, and Michele’s Mom, Betty joined us, Rochell, Gigi, and Sonya. I’d thought it would be nice to have a couple of pots of soup on the stove as well as some freshly baked bread for dinner. [...]
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One of my birthday gifts from David was this book. I had heard of the ratios behind cooking “standards” before in other cookbooks; when I heard about this book, it immediately went onto my wish list. It is a fantastic book…something that will allow me to do more experimentation. One of the sections in the [...]
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This will be the first Thanksgiving where I am doing all the cooking…and I am looking forward to it. In previous years I’ve always been intimidated by the mere thought of “hosting” Thanksgiving. I’m kind of surprised that I am looking forward to it. Is it my renewed joy of cooking? Or cooking in this [...]
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM “SMALL TOWN” NORTH DAKOTA!! Halloween in Mott is very different than what I am used to. The local weekly paper that comes out every Monday came out last week with an odd boxed blurb on page 2: Trick-or-Treating from 4pm to 6:30pm (or after the football game) Dinner to follow for those [...]
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This is a sorry excuse for a fireworks picture…some photographer I am. But I chose this one to illustrate a point. This, way up in the sky, “professional pyrotechnic” looking firework was purchased by one of us non-pyrotechnic people. This illustrates the difference between the “safe and sane” fireworks that are the only available option [...]
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The Lummis Elementary Honor Choir performed for the School Board of Trustees tonight. They did a fantastic job…as usual and thanks to Kim Dotts!!!! Since I knew Brian was going to be in ND and Shawn would be at work, I asked Erin if maybe she and Kailee might like to go grab a bite [...]
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Just want to send out well wishes for everyone to have a happy, healthy, prosperous, and abundant 2009! Everyone deserves the best life has to offer!!!!
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I can’t believe it’s here already! It seems it was just Summer Vacation a week or so ago? What is it that makes the time fly by so fast? Is it our busy lives? Trying to cram so much into one day that we set the globe spinning at a break-neck pace? I think we [...]
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I knew it was coming, but I wanted to avoid it as long as possible. I don’t know how many almost-10 year olds still believe in Santa, but David did until today. But when he came in tonight and said his 13yo cousin told him there was no such thing as Santa Claus and that [...]
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Happy Halloween!!!! This year, I stayed home and manned the door while David and Daddy did the door-to-door candy begging routine. Brian had stayed home the last 3 years while I walked David around with some “partners in crime”. The first Trick-or-Treaters we got were really small neighborhood kids. You know, the ones that are [...]
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