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Make Caramel Popcorn for the New Year’s Eve party at the Shubin’s tonight.
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Fold the rest of the laundry.
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Put the laundry away.
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FInish cooking kidney beans.
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Supervise Judah’s vacuuming of the living room.
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Make some sort of lunch.
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Make some sort of dinner.
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Break out the monthly amounts for the Grocery and Household budget for 2009.
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Put away groceries still in [...]
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And I have to say… a White Christmas is highly overrated! Not that I’m not taken by the first appearance of snow, and the beauty of the landscape covered in white. Truly, I’m always delighted when we get “real” snow (defined by me as when the snow is high enough to [...]
Last night, as I was trying to get to sleep I was giving thanks for the predictable seasons in our lives. You know, the busy, festive holiday season followed by the fresh, starting-over feeling of the New Year. As I followed that line of thought, I got to thinking about how Rev. Van Dyken my former [...]
On the way to Grandma Valerie’s a few weeks ago on an extraordinarily clear and beautiful winter day, I was able to point out all three of the volcanoes that are visible from a certain point on I-205, going north. Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, and Mt. Rainier. Since I was in a talkative mood, I [...]
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A few family album type bits of information:\par
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We went to my parents in Tri-Cities, WA for Thanksgiving this year! We drove up on Wednesday, without incident. I brought rolls – 60-minute rolls from the old Kitchen Aid cookbook, and poppy-seed sourdough rolls from my bread-machine cookbook \’e2\’80\ldblquote although not prepared in the bread [...]
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Monica chewing on a homemade teething biscuit
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Monica is almost 7 [...]
Monica desperately needed something tasty to chew on – perhaps she’s teething? So I investigated online and in fairly short order found this recipe, the Our Favorite Baby Cereal Cookie Recipe.\par
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These are great! Monica attacks them as a puppy does a bone and they were easy to make. I put them in the freezer in a [...]
Judah, “Mom, I have to go find my map for Treasure Planet – I left it outside!”\par
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Me, “Oh, were you looking for treasure planet?”\par
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Judah, “Yeah, we found 3 or 10 of them.”\par
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Me, “3 or 10?”\par
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Judah, “Yeah, or one [...]
