KT had been searching for vegan hiking boots for a few months. Little did we know that finding a sturdy leather-free boot would become such an odyssey. In desperation, she finally gave up and searched for a pair online. (Interestingly, she seems to share some of her mother’s reluctance to buy things over the internet. It’s . . . → Read More: The Unexpected Package
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One of Mimi’s favorite foods is beans. She gobbles them down in any shape or form (Which can make life rather…um…aromatic…at times) Her most favorite beans, however, are my World(ish) Famous Baked Beans. As I was preparing to make a batch of them for the weekend’s festivities, Mimi insisted on helping me make them. She desperately . . . → Read More: It Ain’t Nothin’ Like Mama’s Everybody knows that when you go on vacation, you aren’t supposed to get sick. Well, almost everyone knows that. It seems that Shaun didn’t get the message. Late yesterday afternoon, he started feeling a little under the weather. He thought that maybe his allergies were acting up as we had been doing a lot of driving . . . → Read More: The Basic Necessities Last weekend, our Aunt Edie and Uncle Jim made it to Seattle on their Nationwide Tour Extravaganza (OK, I’m pretty sure they just call it a really long roadtrip, but that sounds so tedious so I thought I would jazz the name up for them a little bit!) We had the option of sitting on the . . . → Read More: When Relatives Come to Visit We were spending some family time together, when out of the blue our oldest daughter KT asked what “granola” meant. My husband looked at her for a moment as though she had grown a second head before telling her quite matter-of-factly that granola was a breakfast cereal. The kind of cereal, he teased, that he had been . . . → Read More: Our Granola Girl This weekend we attended our second Vegfest. For those of you that are thinking this may have been a chance to veg out in a huge exhibition hall with hundreds of other folks…sort of a Woodstock without the bands…or the drugs…you would be mistaken. “Veg”, in this instance is referring to the vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. . . . → Read More: VegFest 2010 Earlier this week, Mimi reminded me that there was only a few more days until Easter as she looked pointedly at the gaily decorated display of Easter Baskets in the store we were in. I merely looked at her and mumbled something about having thought that the Easter Bunny had retired from our house as Mimi . . . → Read More: A Rather Different Easter  |
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