Recipe at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dp45444_14cw6kkjcd&hl=en

We sent it south with Wild Child and my parents. They are taking him to spend Xmas with my family or his dad, depending on who actually shows up.

veracity1 is relieved the banana bread didn't stay here ( Read more... )

Obama RosterI walked 5 miles on Saturday and 5 miles today. I must be building muscle because I'm craving protein ( Read more... )

We are in Asheville this weekend. My mother put veracity1 and me up in a hotel because it is how she can deal with us sleeping together. The fact that she is still paying for the roof is missing her completely ( Read more... )

I promised ymasen I would tell her about my mother and the artichokes.

When I was 14 or 15, a frequent habit in my family was to go to church on Sunday and then have our big meal, usually in the dining room instead of the breakfast nook off the kitchen. It wasn't always a huge feast that my mother had spent hours over, just the biggest meal that was ( Read more... )

1. Parents love their children ( Read more... )

My mother has a younger brother. He's 68. He goes to an independent Pentecostal church. He is a Republican. He discovered email about 10 years ago ( Read more... )

My dad is 70 today.

:-)

I sang to him just before my mother and sister (with family) took him out for lunch.

I have given my sisters white roses when they have been in labor. I absolutely had to jump through hoops for the last one. And that was the one I had actually tried to plan for. I had just called and requested for the first 3. And been lucky ( Read more... )

Nigel has been my friend for 25 years. We met at Florence-Darlington Technical College, taking the Medical Laboratory Technology program. I was 22 and he was 20. He came to my wedding to the father of Wild Child (who is his godson, officially, via the Episcopal church). We worked together for 5 years at Baker Hospital. I was at both of his ( Read more... )

I am not a Boomer. I am not GenX. I am a Joneser. Ha ( Read more... )