Cocktails and Crafts from www.evite.com Are you local (Seattle-ish) and not creepy? Do you want to meet up and also finish your Christmas cards or crafts? If so, email me and I’ll send you an invite to a night of Cocktails and Christmas crafting. You know the cocktails will be delish, and I’d love to [...]
Jim made it through the first critical 24 hours and is now coherent, off the ventilator, and down from 13 (!) IV drips to 5. Thank you all for your continued thoughts and prayers. Velma was concerned because the first time she visited him after they “woke him up” (took him off anesthesia), he seemed [...]
…the questions were and are a bit more complicated. The angiogram revealed that Dave’s dad had only 5% of heart capacity (much less than the doctor thought). Apparently he had two previous silent yet massive heart attacks. As we all went about our lives, as Jim played Solitaire on the computer, as Nana played puzzles [...]
I know it’s NaBloPoMo and all, but I’m going to have to take the night off. Dave’s dad is in the hospital. Not the ER, but the hospital. He’s been having some breathing difficulties. Tomorrow he has an angiogram. Parents are supposed to be invincible. Even when they’re 78. Please keep him in your prayers.
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 [...]
Did I mention the margaritas? Here’s the impromptu recipe we concocted in Jen’s slightly small (Amen!) but fabulously cozy kitchen: