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, , , becca February 23, 2011

What’s not to Love?

Here are things I love this week: No-school Mondays Fabric Softener The Harlem Globetrotters Making lists Wilkie Collins Vacuum lines in the carpet Chex Mix Jessica Day George Surprise phone calls New shoes Reprives Red Robin onion rings Snuggles Sunflower bread Other people’s babies Cotton socks My new rosemary plant Cripps Pink apples Menu planning
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, , becca January 25, 2011

Happy Making

In case you need it on this fine, blustery day, here is a short list of happy-making stuff. (In no particular order.) Wheaty artisan bread with sunflower seeds in. PSYCH on Netflix instant. Clean cars. More locker shelves = cleaner mudroom floor. I bet you’d forgotten our mudroom even had a floor, hadn’t you? Oh,
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, , , , becca December 29, 2010

Right Now

The house is quiet. Just the hum of the dryer and the snap of roasting potatoes in olive oil. Kids are playing in various other people’s domains. Snow total (can I call it that, when it’s nowhere near being finished?) approaching 20 inches for today. Canyon closed. Husband worked at home (in the quiet). Kind
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, , becca December 16, 2010

This Goes Way Beyond Licking the Spoon

(If you’re lactose intolerant, please don’t even read this post. It will make you so, so sad.) So the Boy (Kid 4) asked for a Tres Leches cake for his birthday. And I made it. And as I’m now buzzing with a sugar high and carefully licking the sticky off my face (where it landed
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, , becca September 29, 2010

How did I not KNOW this?

Friends, really. I’ve gone many, many years on this train-trip called life, and never until today did I understand why we’re actually here. The reason is Massage. Not kidding. Had my first massage today. I am a changed woman. Life means so much more than broken dryers and dirty dishes. It means rosemary-scented oil. It
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, , , becca September 20, 2010

Ahhh. I needed that.

Kid 1 and I took a little road trip this weekend. And very little patience was required for at least thirty hours. Wow, right? Here’s how it went down. My sister who is NOT Betsy in BBM has a daughter who turned 16 this weekend, so for a surprise, she arranged for us to meet
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, , becca August 25, 2010

Is it Possible?

Today at 9:06 a.m. when I was leaving my little grocery market, I swear I saw Morgan Freeman driving a white van. He smiled at me. Morgan, are you here in my town? Want to come over for pie? (We picked many fine strawberries this morning. Also, we are lovely company.)
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, , becca July 28, 2010

Little Things

Want to know fifteen* little things that make me happy? Corn. On the cob. With butter and salt and pepper. Mmmm. 4 happy Kids doing after-dinner kitchen jobs together. Watermelon. At least twice a week. A stack of books by the bedside. (Megan Whalen Turner. Try her. Start with “The Thief.”) Dryer sheets. So much
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