This Must Be the Place

Life continues to be crazy; so what else is new? Still settling in, have started car hunting, and there's all the joys of the third trim...

Last night I made chili without a recipe. I didn't even really think about finding one, just threw a bunch of things that seemed right i...

This has been one of those periods in which the good things arrived sandwiched between the really unpleasant. It started nearly two weeks ...

"What are you doing?" "Making sure the erasers are okay." "Oh." "Can I go to the bathroom?" ...

Of all the times to misplace my camera. To start the weekend properly, on Friday... it was a long week. So on Friday night I made a chocolat...

... is what weather.com says for Worcester right now. This has been an unusually vicious cold snap, even for January. In other vicious news,...

Some months ago, on a whim, I bought a package of yellow lentils. Since then, they have mostly been lugged around by my son, who loves pulli...

Gah, a whole week since my last post? I'm not sure what it says that my long holiday weekend was so busy that I barely had time to check...

It was an enormously busy weekend--a D&D game on Saturday, and one of the group had a recent birthday so I made Nigella Lawson's Cho...

I will never figure kids out. Friday night was awful . L brought a cold home from school and gave it to her brother, and he was up I think ...

JJ took his first cruising steps today. Wish I'd had a camera handy, because he had the biggest grin I have ever seen!

I've been meaning to post this for weeks now--it's the recipe I used to make L's birthday cake, and it was not only the best cho...

Can't believe I forgot to mention this in yesterday's post, but on Sunday night JJ said "maamaaamaamaaa". We're very e...

Last night my very own daughter, the one who regularly flies into hysterics if faced with food she thinks she won't like, ate a piece of...

JJ cut his first tooth earlier this week, and according to yesterday's pediatric visit has at least three more following close behind. T...

The frazzling began late Saturday night, when out of nowhere JJ started throwing up. Now, this child spits up right and left, but had never ...

A tiring and discouraging day yesterday, driving around Framingham to see what our budget will get us by way of a house there. I am less tha...

So one of the neighbor kids reproved another for pushing them out onto the pond yesterday afternoon. It was an unusual day in that D was out...