Last year in the middle of the economic plight, when I cut my grocery bill in half and made my daughter buy her clothes at Melrose Trading Post, I traveled to Tuscany. I had the mozzarella balls to accept an offer of travelling with my cousins that I couldn’t refuse, … Read More
The text read “first turtle of season hatched, returned to water, I have fleas and ants in my backpack.” These are the only words from our daughter who’s living along the remote shores of Costa Rica to help save turtle eggs from animal predators and human confiscators. Here I go…it … Read More
You know the term rising? It’s a summer term to indicate the grade a child will enter in the fall, as in will be a freshman or freshman rising. My daughter is now, at this very moment, entering her last summer rising. She will be a senior come September. We … Read More
Hey kids, we’re having peas. Come on mom, we had vegetables this week.
I pulverized them into baby food. gross and gross.
Yeah, and I added mint too. What? peas aren’t candy.
Best part. We don’t have to eat it?
No, it’s cold. Omg, give me anything but your cold pea soup.
Experts predict this … Read More
It’s not that chicken satay is fast the first time you make it. It’s that you make a giant batch and the next time you retrieve it from the freezer and it’s ever so easy when you need things easy. And when you need things easy is the time when … Read More