Blog archives for July, 2007

Henry (while jumping around on my bed): Hey Mom, what kind of bed is this again? Is this a King bed? Or is it a Queen bed? Me: It’s a King bed. Henry: And what kind of bed do I have again? It’s a Prince, right?

[...] I worried that taking care of myself would cost me relationships. I have lost my first friend due to my inadequacies. I’m pretty sure she won’t be the last. It terrifies me, but I fear it’s the truth. [...]

At first, I thought dark nail polish looked weird. Now it has totally grown on me. I decided I HAD to have dark plum on my toes (no, it’s not actually black). Some people have suggested I’m trying to go Goth here in my 30s. [...]

[...] Henry turned 7 on Saturday. Wow, the time flies. Peter turns 3 in a couple of weeks, so we celebrated them both at the same time.
Henry wanted a Lego cake. I was pretty excited with how it came out (although I put so much red paste food coloring in the icing it was hardly edible! ) [...]

I have mint growing rampant in my backyard – it seems a shame to waste it. You KNOW I’d love to polish it off by making (and downing) a few pitchers of mojitos*, but I’m being a good little girl and laying off the calorie-laden cocktails. (A sacrifice that’s good for the budget and the scales.)
It’s also a great time for fresh fruit. I think I’ve spent 50% of our budget the last 2 weeks on fresh fruit. Cherries, watermelon, strawberries, raspberries by the flat, blueberries by the bucket… Another month and I’ll be swimming in fresh blackberries – I can’t wait!
So Monday night, I came up with a great, simple “salad

margarita chicken from smitten kitchen Some of you are under the impression that I can cook. I was too, until I started eating at my friend Giseli’s house. Then I realized that I can no more cook than drive a space shuttle or loom my own cotton. This woman is amazing. She makes chicken taste [...]

I’m not much of a meme-r, but I love Defective Yeti, I love words, and I’m a maven. Therefore, there was no way I could resist taking this quiz and posting my results. I encourage you to try it too. If you do, leave a comment with a link to your blog. (Jen the Knitting [...]

raspberry from Mayiii’s photostream Some days I feel like a writer – where every experience seems to come fully realized with words ripe for the picking, falling into my hand like sunkissed raspberries. Other days I wonder what the heck I am doing here. Why did I think I could do this? I have no [...]

[...]After my dad’s second doppio (with some awesome crema), he struck up a conversation with me about my machine. I told him that I was on my 4th one (thanks, Shona!) and was saving for my dream machine. I also added a lot of blah-blah-brass-boiler-and-grouphead-and-holding-the-steam-pressure-and-
Italian-construction-blah-blah (he reads Tom Clancy, so I figured he liked ODing on technical details).[...]

I wrote another essay for my church’s eNewsletter. You may recognize some bits and pieces of it from two previous posts. As always, what I ended up writing is not necessarily what I sat down to write. That is the amazing thing about the writing process. I truly feel the Spirit working through me. I [...]