Haha! My Uncle used to own a #Cheese plant – this picture is for him. He is the totally awesomest dude ever! Miss you! And Everyone who has lived in China and knows the tragedy that is life without cheese!
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To pull the metal splinter from my palm
Family Day!
9 JulHanging with my cousins tonight! One daughter is a pianist, the other a dancer 🙂 My cousin helps children in the public schools escape dangerous situations or children without parents to get through school. And of course my awesome aunt! Good women!Went to a famous restaurant there Lambert’s (nationally known) where they throw your bread to you across the room 🙂
Gingerbread Disaster (Potentially)
17 DecI’m currently trying my hand at the good old-fashioned gingerbread house! I haven’t made one of these in years, so I thought I would reward my end-of-the-school-year efforts with the chance to express my creative side for a bit. Of course, I’m not attempting to build it from scratch–that’s a BIG undertaking for a beginning Gingerbread-House-builder 🙂 Instead I grabbed a kit at Sam’s, and I’ve been playing around with it all night.
I’m happy to report that after a couple of hours, an entire tube of icing, four “OH NO’S!!,” and finally a cry for extra holding hands from my mom, my house has four standing walls and a roof. Admittedly, one wall is pushed in and I had to overlap the roof edges a bit, but its on! Woohoo! After one final catastrophe of the whole thing collapsing inward, I’ve decided to give it the night to cement. It’s currently being held up with chili and icing cans 🙂
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
14 Oct
I have been horribly amiss, and I must officially apologize to all of my readers. I promised you an update some time ago on my visit to Door County Wisconsin and I didn’t update. I now must run away and hide in shame . . . (disappears with hanging head) Okay, I’m back! with the long ago promised post about all the awesome things I got to experience at Door County. I already hit on some of this before in my “I’ve arrived“ post on the trip up there, but for clarity’s sake I’ll touch on some of it again. The trip up there was actually kind of my idea since my family was caving into my desire to check out the Great Lakes. Despite living in the midwest area for most of my life, I’d never had the chance to check out the Great Lakes and it was on Continue reading
Happy Father’s Day!
16 JunI have been blessed over the last few weeks to see lots of examples of really great dads. So here, in honor of all those great men out there, are some of the pictures I’ve collected. ❤
Happy Father’s Day!
Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds. ~Terri Guillemets
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” -Sigmund Freud
““The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.” –Antoine Prevost
“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.” –Mario Cuomo
“Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.”- John Mayor
“Don’t wait to make your son a great man – make him a great boy.” –anon,
“They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whoever she grows up to be, she is always to him that little girl in pigtails. She makes him feel like Christmas. In exchange, he makes a secret promise not to see the awkwardness of her teenage years, the mistakes she makes or the secrets she keeps.” –Anon
To pull the metal splinter from my palm
my father recited a story in a low voice.
I watched his lovely face and not the blade.
Before the story ended, he’d removed
the iron sliver I thought I’d die from.
I can’t remember the tale,
but hear his voice still, a well
of dark water, a prayer.
And I recall his hands,
two measures of tenderness
he laid against my face
–Li Young Lee
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ~ Roman Payne
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