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~:: The Tiniest Family Thanksgiving ::~
Okay. So life gets very complicated when your children grow up and start marrying people, and by default, the other people’s families. Once it was just no big deal, filling up the places at the table. I can remember, both … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Family, holidays, Seasons, The kids
Tagged dinner, holidays, inlaws, kids, Thanksgiving
6 Comments
~:: Ergodicity ::~
What a swell word. Has to do with statistics, mostly – as in the consideration of erstwhile moments as indications of probability in a system. Or something. I am choosing to mean it thus: any given moment in the past … Continue reading
~:: Small Victories ::~
I found a little box of chocolates in the fridge. I didn’t mean to. I wasn’t hunting for it. Left over from Swiss Colony. There were just a few in there. And I ate them all. Today. For lunch. A … Continue reading
Posted in Family, holidays, Just life, Just talk, photo games, Pics of Made Things
Tagged Breaking Rank, chicken puppet, Christmas, hippo, house, kids, knit fox, knit sheep, microwave, owl, photo books, scanning, The Gardener
67 Comments
~:: Amazing Things ::~
Nothing to do with personal angst. YAYAYAY!!!! Instead, I’m writing about yesterday. And I meant to start with something I was deeply pleased with, but have – after a night of interesting dreams – totally forgotten about. So I will, … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Geneva, Rachel, The g-kids
Tagged babysitting, flood, kids, lake, lions, sand bags, Scoots
24 Comments
~:: Take it again, from the top – ::~
Ah, the time wings by, doesn’t it? How can you “keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor’s household should,” and still have time to write about the experience? Here is the coolest possible thing in parenthood: when your grown up, single, … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Christmas, Epiphanies and Meditations, Family, Fun Stuff, holidays, Images, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, The g-kids, The kids
Tagged Christmas, decorations, Dickens, kids, quilt, the tree, tradition
14 Comments
~:: Bits of Eden ::~
My father just turned 88. He outdid his own father’s life by almost 30 years. I’m not that ambitious, myself. Happy birthday, Daddy. The perfect, perfect, perfect day: Saturday after Thanksgiving, the great feast eaten. Two days spent setting the … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Family, Fun Stuff, holidays, Just talk, Seasons, The kids
Tagged celebration, empty nest, houses, kids, motherhood
18 Comments
~;;~ Some Haunting Images ~;;~
As I have mentioned before, my mom used to sew up our Halloween costumes. I remember the cat one, which I loved, but I don’t remember any others; there might be movies of us on Halloween, but my parents weren’t … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Family, Fun Stuff, holidays, Images, Seasons, The kids
Tagged Autumn, costumes, Halloween, kids, ninja, pirate ship, pumpkins
42 Comments
:: All Hallow’s Eve ::
I’m in the way of writing about Halloween today. I know I’ve written about it a little before, but today is such a gloriously gloomy sort of day, I’m just feelin’ it. I love holidays. I love the ones that … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Epiphanies and Meditations, Explanations, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, The kids
Tagged Autumn, bats, cats, Halloween, kids, light, pumpkins, quilts, skeletons
34 Comments
~o:> Another Day at the Market
Or: My Side of Rachel and the African Kikoy In the continuing saga of our fascination with the Farmer’s Market, summer finally came to the valley, and we sallied forth to sample the local offerings. Rachel went with us, and … Continue reading
Posted in friends, Fun Stuff, Just life, Rachel, The kids, The outside world
Tagged Africa, Chaz, family, farmer's market, Guitar, kids, otter pops, Rachel, summer
12 Comments
Pigs and berries
How did we already get to the middle of October? I’m glad I already got the pumpkins, because if I hadn’t by now, I’d still be worrying about that, and still not having them. I … Continue reading