[Since I’m on a partial-maternity leave right now, please forgive me that a lot of my posts are personal and very much family-related. I hope you all don’t mind.] The lesson I learned from my weekly Bible study: Once a man came upon three rock masons at work. “What are you doing,” he asked. “I […]
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Generally speaking, I try to force my children provide healthy meals for my four girlies. But one, in particular, is extremely stubborn. Lucia. I’m not quite sure how she’s alive, quite frankly. No vegetables. Barely any fruit. Only cereal and the odd muffin. Oh, and bread. Yeah, pretty sad. Not sure why she’s so picky […]
… For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants . . . I’m starting to dream of spring, of grassy fields, pale, pink blossoms […]
Good-bye boring ol’ box of Valentine chocolates. Helloooooooooooo, Cupcakes! Need I say more? Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and whether or not your Sweetheart is the kind of person to shower you with affection, love, bouquets of flowers, boxes of chocolates (um, I’m not married to one of those men and honestly (HONESTLY!) […]