The Bruce fam has decided to do a white elephant Xmas this year, and Chef and I have been wandering around the house trying to decide what to wrap up as our presents. Tonight Chef had a brilliant idea, “I know! Your degree!”
It will do as much for them as it has for [...]
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While getting ready to go to yet another holiday party, I’ve realized that although I start with every intention of getting really, really dressed up, I almost always end up dressing down. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
I’m totally excited about this party though. Chef has spent the last two weeks planning, and [...]
I don’t know what my problem is, but I’m recently obsessed with baking things. The cooking blogs, they don’t help, with their delicious cookies, the chocolates, the gingers, the vanilla beans, the glistening sugars, icings piped along the edges of pastel petit fours. I pass special edition, holiday-themed cookie baking magazines in the [...]
Air-Breathing, Water-Drinking Earthlings
Published April 22nd, 2009 in Children, E, Education, Environment, Holidays, Parenthood and School. 4 CommentsLast night Ethan’s third grade class put on an Earth Day celebration, a “Prairie Home Companion” styled radio show, that was packed full of epic recorder songs and appeals to their parents to recycle and consume water and electricity in more responsible ways. Even though it was relatively standard in the school recital sense, [...]
I really want this.
In lieu of Mother’s Day, Time Magazine has a feature on people’s favorite pop culture moms. Props to mentioning the ladies from The Joy Luck Club — both book and movie are a long-time guilty pleasure — and Dumbo’s mommy, whose cuddling scene makes me cry a little every time I watch it.
Except for [...]
Happy Pi Day!
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Sometimes Living On Campus is Awesome
Published October 27th, 2007 in Holidays, Humor and Suburbia. 0 CommentsLate last night I stepped out on the front porch for a smoke and heard what sounded like a mob coming down the street at my house. A group of a dozen students rounded the corner in their Halloween costumes, tanked, encouraging one another’s drunk asses that they were almost home. I watched [...]
This one might even be better than the original.
Hat tip to Annie.
RE: HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
Funny beats sexy every time.
Also, peach-habanero chili.
Ethan celebrated his eighth birthday today with many congratulations. Most important to him is that he has secured a reciprocal crush from a fellow classmate at school, about which we are to say nothing and reveal to no one. So, shhhh.
Last week I picked Ethan up after work and as soon as he buckled his carseat he dropped the bomb.
Ethan: Mom, did you know Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny don’t exist?
Me: Really?
Ethan: Yeah. Parents just take your Christmas list and buy you stuff off it and say it’s from Santa, [...]
I sent the Christmas thank-yous. In April.
Easter is the coolest Christian holiday, and not because of the Christian story, per se, although I always liked it in my church-going days because it was a story that offered hope. No, Easter is cool because it allows you to drink Bloody Marys with your family during Easter brunch and then go out [...]
“Is April too late to send thank you letters from Christmas?”
“Yes. Let me throw these away.”
“No! I’m going to send them.”
“No, you’re not.”
“I will. Just because it’s not on your timeline doesn’t mean I won’t do it.”
“I’m throwing them away.”
“Just put them on the counter [where they've been sitting for three months] [...]
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