My sweet, beautiful, smart, baby girl is, at 18 years old today, officially not a baby anymore… My newborn daughter with my mom THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE It could have happened. It had to happen. It happened sooner. Later. Nearer. Farther. It happened not to you. You survived because you were the first. You survived because you were the…
When we started purchasing many of our herbs, teas and spices in bulk, I don’t think we didn’t really understood how messy this new process would make our cabinets. But bags of spices and bay leaves and Irish Breakfast tea take up a lot of space and aren’t incredibly easy to keep organized… Before Unless, of course, you decide to…
Uncover the mystery around quicksand with this fun and easy activity! Who knows, maybe the knowledge will come in handy in real life one day? MATERIALS: 1 box of corn starch, 2 cups of water, newspaper (or a tablecloth that can get dirty), a large bowl, a small plastic animal (optional) TIME FRAME: 15 – 60 minutes PROCEDURE: Cover a…
Ode to the Lemon by Pablo Neruda From blossoms released by the moonlight, from an aroma of exasperated love, steeped in fragrance, yellowness drifted from the lemon tree, and from its planetarium lemons descended to the earth. Tender yield! The coasts, the markets glowed with light, with unrefined gold; we opened two halves of a miracle, congealed acid trickled from…
Happy Monday, everyone! Welp, it’s that time of year again…warm days and chilly evenings followed by snow on the ground and the reminder that it really is still winter, despite the Spring Fever that keeps tempting me to put some seeds in the ground on the sunny days. Soon enough, though…soon enough! Until then, though, at least our old stand…
My Maternal Great Grandpa was a baker, though I don’t have a single recipe that belonged to him. There may be one (or 100) of Dutch’s recipes stashed away in a cardboard box in the garage of one of my relatives, but if they do exist, chances are I will never have the opportunity to read them, let alone bake…
