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I panicked today because I thought I had lost all the video clips I had taken of Asher prior to age 4...eventually tracked down the baby ones on a tape in my old camcorder, and found the ones for ages 1-3 buried in picture directories imported from two computers ago. So glad to have located everything...now I just need to figure out something to do ( Read more... ) -
Calling local knitters
Local knitters on my friendslist (Especially thinking of tersa), my dear friend and talented knitting designer Amy Herzog is offering a 6-hour Fit to Flatter workshop at Purlescence Yarns in Sunnyvale on Dec. 10. Call the shop to sign up. You can learn more about Fit to Flatter here:
http://www.amyherzogdesigns.com/f2f/
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Anxious to Please
I took Asher (and Ronan, semi-asleep in his carseat) out to lunch at the Cup and Saucer and then to Michael's to pick out some new dinosaurs. At one point he looked up at me and said ( Read more... ) -
Grrr.
Decided to treat myself to a long-desired copy of the complete "Upstairs, Downstairs" TV show with some holiday money. Found the best price on barnesandnoble.com (where I have a membership), with free shipping to boot. And I had a coupon code for an additional 10% off for members, which would take care of sales tax. Except, inexplicably, the code ( Read more... ) -
PSA --- Children's Tylenol Recall
(Cross-posted to facebook)
http://www.tylenol.com/page.jhtml?id=tylenol/news/subpchildinfantnews.inc
A number of liquid Children's Tylenol products have been recalled. Check your lot numbers. We had to toss two bottles. Affected products were manufactured in 2008, but the bottles I had to throw away didn't expire until 2010. (No, Asher didn't get ( Read more... ) -
"That word...I do not think that it means what you think it means."
Asher turned three last Saturday. Happy birthday, little man ( Read more... ) -
Help with Curry Paste
I'm really hoping that someone can provide me with some guidance.
I'm preparing this recipe now for tonight's dinner. It calls for 1/3 to 1/2 a cup of prepared South Asian curry paste (recommended: Patak). I found a small jar of Thai Kitchen Red Curry Paste at the grocery. The sample recipe on the jar (a shrimp curry) calls for 1/2 to 1 tbs of curry ( Read more... ) -
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I want to start a Wordpress food blog. I'm planning to chronicle feeding my family out of a farm box and our garden plus various supplemental shopping trips, and write the occasional restaurant/food product review.
I'm trying to come up with a name for the blog. Some that I was interested in (sweet tooth, toasted cheese) were taken. Neil suggested ( Read more... ) -
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Happy birthday diony and many happy returns of the day!
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Little pumpkin
Asher finishes his lunch. Mommy decides to treat him to the other half of the large pumpkin cookie that she bought for him yesterday.
Mommy ruffles Asher's hair. "I love you, my little pumpkin."
Asher grins, his teeth full of orange sprinkles. "I love you, too, my big pumpkin."