What’s For Dinner?

So here’s a little something I thought I’d try – a weekly dinner schedule (plus some fun with coloured pens). I’m really not a routine/schedule person, but I do love rituals, and the buying, preparing and eating (especially the eating) of food is one of my favourite rituals. Josh and I often talked about doing [...]

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The Commitments

Oh, the promise of a new year! And there’s nothing like the accompanying fresh, as-yet-unadorned calendars to go along with it. (Plus a pencil and sharpener at the ready!) I absolutely love filling my new calendars and day planners with birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and other notable occasions. In filling in all these things I look [...]

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Falling Down on the Job…

Well, sorta. In a flurry of Christmas preparations, cinnamon bun making (Tessa Kiros’ amazing recipe for Cardamom & Cinnamon Buns – http://whowantsseconds.typepad.com/who_wants_seconds/2005/01/cinnamon_cardam.html), integrating a new cat into the household (the lovely Peabody, who Josh and I are fostering for the next few months for my friend Laura) and baby tending, I haven’t posted in a [...]

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Distractions

I ask you: how is a girl supposed to concentrate on re-learning how to knit with nails like these in the way? Wow. Are those press-ons, or the real thing? (I got this DVD from the library – “Learn to Knit” by Tracie Wunderlich… she’s actually a very good teacher.) For me, knitting is kind [...]

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