From the category archives:
I’m so happy I had a plan in 2000 to preserve pieces of my kids’ lives while they were little – their handprints! Readers recently asked if I’d share about the plates.
It’s hard to believe that 10 years have passed, but ten years ago, in 2000, I took my kids down to a local pottery [...]
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This last week when my sisters and I cooked our Dad a traditional German dish (Fleischkuechle) for his birthday that our Mother used to make (we say that she was the expert!), we had a lot of experts watching us. Mom’s sister (our Aunt Barbara), our Mother’s long-time friend, Hilda, our cousin Terri (and new [...]
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A couple of years ago I saved this note from a reader:
Help, I’ve opened my home too often at the expense of my family!
In our home, we really try to have intentional family time. Time when it is just our immediate family present. I get the “feeling” when our family needs to regroup. [...]
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A few weeks ago I woke up at 3 am and got up to read and write. I was thinking back to our NYE party, at the end of the night, as the women were all in the kitchen doing dishes.
I love the sight of women working together in the kitchen. It makes me giddy [...]
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Have I told you how much I love impromptu? Actually, it wasn’t always that way. I used to always need a heads up, or advanced warning if friends were stopping by. But I’ve learned to relax a bit …
My nephew and niece were coming for tacos – Easy.
Our friends stopped by on their [...]
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Available August 2010:
Read the story here.
