While driving home from shopping, I hear CAP say, “Baked beans don’t look good on my ankle.” We laugh as she explains that she really said, “Big beads,” the kind that may appear on an anklet.
Moving furniture at church from one room to another – two adults who may or may not have been on [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Today In My World
Posted in School, Small Moments, tagged School, Small Moments on 31 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
Observed
Posted in Small Moments, Uncategorized, tagged people watching, Small Moments on 29 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
A man behind the library desk fills his coffee cup with water. From the water fountain. He makes lots of trips to the water fountain.
Small Moments
Posted in Small Moments, tagged Parenting, Small Moments, Writing on 26 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When CAP was in first grade, the writing program at her elementary school introduced her to the “small moments” story. The idea is that a story doesn’t have to be about something huge or dramatic or life-changing. You can learn to be a better writer by writing about the little experiences too.
From what I can [...]
And The First Audio-Book of Fall 2008 Is…
Posted in reading, tagged Books, reading on 24 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Founding Fish by John McPhee. More on this later.
The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga
Posted in sewing, tagged monkeys, sewing, soft toys on 23 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My father sang that song in elementary school and later passed it on to us. It was a convoluted sort of song involving pepper on fishy’s tails and also monkeys playing the violin.
CAP and I made a monkey for a friend’s birthday today. This little monkey was tailless for a while too.
He came from the [...]
More Wrinkled Linen
Posted in cooking, tagged cooking, Dessert, food, gluten-free on 21 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CAP planned last night’s meal – quesadillas from Rachel Ray (am I the only cook out there that can’t make a 30-minute meal in less than an hour?), green salad and gluten-free sponge cakes. Everything was delicious, especially the dessert. We bought raspberries from the farmers’ market to top the cakes, but Pablo was the [...]
Dessert!
Posted in cooking, tagged cooking, food on 19 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pablo is taking a couple of weeks off from kitchen duty and so I feel obligated to dig out the 1960’s cookbooks and make super fun (sometimes scary) meals. Last night’s dinner was from McCall’s 1965 Picnic and Patio Cookbook. Chili, polenta, and lemon fluff. I had planned to make a vegetable, but got distracted by [...]
Things I Would Do If I Was a Little More Together
Posted in Uncategorized on 14 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
pay my child’s allowance on time
know where the checkbook is
return library books on time
make important (sometimes unpleasant) short phone calls without delay
yell less
I’m working on it.
Four Words
Posted in School, reading, tagged Books, reading, School on 12 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Four words can explain the lack of posts in the last couple of weeks: Final Exam and Anna Karenina.
I got through about 300 pages of Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and The White before throwing in the towel and moving from nineteenth-century London to nineteenth-century Russia. Excuse me while I go curl up in my chair [...]
