books

What is your mom moment?

May 9, 2009

Pepper Nuts Last year I was riffling through my cupboards looking for my mom’s pepper nut cookie recipe. You know the ones … you make a month before the holidays and glaze (no one could glaze like my mom) so they look like translucent snow on a very cold moonlit night. Hmmm. Not here. Not [...]

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Books to delight a toddler.

May 7, 2009

Whenever my 18 month old grandchild leaves I walk around the house and pick up the few items that need to go back into her room (or at least the room with three small canvas bins just for her). Always, I am picking up a book or two. As soon as she arrives she dashes [...]

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True confessions.

April 16, 2009

We are going on vacation. You might say, so what? Well, this is my husband’s and my first real vacation, the kind where you stay in one spot and can walk or ride your bike to wherever you want to go. We are going to an island off the shore of South Carolina so the [...]

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Wash floors or refresh attitude?

April 2, 2009

What delighted me today? After a week of cool, windy, rainy days, this morning promised warmth and sunshine and blue skies. The wind unexpectedly gusted from the east all day bringing more spring weather. So I threw open the windows (love the sound of that phrase but actually they glided open easily), picked up around [...]

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