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You Can Never Have Too Many Beds

January 13, 2012

Somehow, while I wasn’t looking, Marcus managed to pull his new bed out of his crate and drag it all the way across the house to be close to his other two beds. I guess dog beds get lonely when they’re left all by themselves. And yes, Marcus does now have three beds. Basketball Girl [...]

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Ghost of Christmas Past

January 11, 2012

Our beautiful Christmas tree has finally been undressed and waits for its final trip to the city’s recycling pile. Now it’s college application time, tax return time, and getting-organized time (funny how that last one never quite seems to happen.)

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Party Shoes

January 7, 2012

These are Basketball Girl’s feet, wearing a pair of Lego pumps created by our friend Lady Calypso. Don’t you wish all your friends made cool things like this?

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Reversal of Roles

December 30, 2011

A few weeks ago, I had one blonde daughter and one brunette. Now the blonde daughter has dyed her hair black, and the brunette has dyed her hair blonde. It’s strange how disorienting this is when one of them comes into the room. My mind is conditioned to think of a blonde as Sunny and [...]

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On the First Day of Christmas, My True Love Gave to Me…

December 27, 2011

This blue bucket. Because he stole my other bucket for one of his construction projects, and I need a bucket to mop the kitchen floor. (I am not making this up.) In all fairness, he is also making me something I really want for my sewing room, but what I got to unwrap on Christmas [...]

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The Christmas Cake

December 26, 2011

Maybe we went a little overboard on the sprinkles. This was the crunchiest angel food cake I’ve ever eaten. Tasted good, though. The frosting was chocolate whipped cream, one of my favorites because it’s so easy, but seems like it was a lot of work. You can make it in about five minutes: whip together [...]

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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2011

I hope the coming year brings you everything you wish for (everything that’s good for you, that is.) I feel blessed to know you, my dear readers, and am very grateful to have your friendship.

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Technical Difficulties

December 23, 2011

I’m not quite sure how this happened, but I just made a batch of the worst-looking shape cookies ever. (See below for proof.) The shapes kept kept crumpling into featureless blobs when I tried to get them on the cookie sheet to bake them, even after I chilled them in the refrigerator. They tasted good, [...]

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Marcus, the Christmas Dog

December 22, 2011

About to take a mid-winter’s nap on one of the Christmas stockings. I don’t know how this blog which is supposed to be about creativity has morphed into a photo album about our nutty dog, but there you go!

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