Apropos of nothing, a recipe for the pasta I made last night, which was both easy and tasty ( Read more... )

( sleep: it helps to have the husband doing night feedings )

I saw a spider crawling along the wall earlier today. I instantly got all mama-defensive: I wanted that 3/4" f*cker dead... especially when it started crawling on the ceiling towards me as I was nursing EM Jr. So I asked the husband to squash it. Epic fail: he poked at it with the broom, knocking it onto the sofa 1' from where I was sitting, ( Read more... )

"Hey hon, I'd like to go to the Farmer's Market" "OK"
And I did. ( food squee below the cut )

Yesterday mysteriously disappeared (as days are wont to do) but today has been fabulous ( Read more... )

1) Bedside table book stack update: and then there were 5 ( behind the cut )

My husband and I went to a party last night, hosted by some friends. ( silly costumes and odd story below )

Hope everybody had a splendid 4th of July holiday.

The husband and I saw "Live Free or Die Hard". Ahhh, summer blockbustery goodness. Thoroughly entertaining flick. And I have developed a crush on the guy who plays the FBI agent, actor Cliff Curtis, previously seen playing the father of the girl in Whale Rider ( Read more... )