Finally, Tuesday. My Thanksgiving week+ is done. 4 loads of laundry later, the house is sooooooo quiet; finally empty but for me for the first time in 11 days. It's lovely ( Read more... )

Among the things I never thought I would willingly spend huge amounts of time and energy on, when I was younger: children and food. I'm not a super foodie. I'm not a scientist or an artist in the kitchen. I am usually perfectly happy letting other people create food for me to eat. But somewhere along the line, cooking became something of a ( Read more... )

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As nice as holidays are in general? They're even better when I have a job and it means time off work instead of just another regular day. This four day weekend thing has been FANTASTIC ( Read more... )

It's been an up and down sort of week.

Steady improvement on my ( knee )

My vacation started early morning, three Sundays ago, right after a bunch of snow came through Pittsburgh. A tired and sick severinpgh helped a tired and sick me escape to the airport, and onto a plane that miraculously left mostly on time, without mishap. I was offered a nice window seat... sort of, which I kept because it came with a row of three empty ( Read more... )

And fall it is now, even though this week has been full of mostly Pittsburgh summer weather. I challenge myself to take time to take stock, give thanks, and find balance ( Read more... )

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This was a holiday week(s) full of family and food, which made it tons of fun.

I got to share Christmas with my family and the boys for the first time in I can't remember how many years. We stayed in Pittsburgh. My parents drove up from Florida for a week and a half, and katybeth and eub flew out, somewhat delayed, from Seattle for a week. The boys and I ( Read more... )

Well, I'm returning from the dead, or rather from a rather textbook upper respiratory infection. I spent the last week going through all the symptoms listed here, one at a time. It's day 7, and I can feel a marked improvement, so I have high hopes I'll continue to progress as expected and be "well" in a few days ( Read more... )