Permalink | Read 3077 times | Comments (2)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
In honor of my father, who knew to display an iris on this occasion.
Permalink | Read 2056 times | Comments (2)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
I'm too busy playing with Jonathan to write much about him, but here are a few delightful Jonathan-isms:
I'll friz it to you and you friz it to me. If there's a word for what you're doing when you throw a Frisbee back and forth, it can't be any better than Jonathan's.
There's
an emery board in there. He was looking in my travel kit, and he
was right; I just didn't expect "emery board" to be in a 2.5 year old's
vocabulary.
The baby's head is pressing on my bladder; I need to go to the bathroom again. His baby brother or sister is due in less than two weeks, so I guess he's heard this phrase a few times....
Oh, you DO have nipples! He took a nap with Grandma, and I had to explain to him that, unlike Mommy, I couldn't provide him with any milk. Later, he was with me when I was changing into my pajamas, and that's when he came out with this statement, an expression of amazement and perplexity on his face. Boy did that make me feel old: all the right equipment but totally useless.
While Mommy was cooking, Jonathan and I made up the Word/Horse game. We spread some of his word cards around on the floor, I get on my hands and knees and he climbs on my back. Then he directs his horse, pointing to a word and telling me to go there: Go to "Mommy," now go to "Aunt Janet," now to "loves." He made the game more interesting by asking me to make new cards for "tickle" and "fall off"; you can imagine what happens when the horse and rider arrive at those cards! He also has great fun with the difference between the cards and what they represented. For example, if I trot up to the Mommy card and say, "Hi, Mommy!" he laughs and says in a "how can you be so silly" voice, "That's not the REAL Mommy, that's the WORD Mommy!"Permalink | Read 2220 times | Comments (3)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
Permalink | Read 2602 times | Comments (5)
Category Random Musings: [first] [previous] [next] [newest] Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
Any extravagance around the time of a birthday counts as part of the celebration, and thus comes without guilt. Thus when Porter wanted to attend the Mad Cow Theatre Company's It Was a Very Good Year, part of the Orlando Cabaret Festival, and even suggested we get the special dinner package, who was I to complain? (More)
Last year I was well prepared for Ash Wednesday, with a rather extensive personal program planned out for Lent. This year, what with company and an intensive two weeks devoted to reroofing our house (and not done yet), it came as a shock this morning to realize that February is over. We were thus saved from having to decide with which of our two churches to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, a small blessing but one we could have done without. No crawfish gumbo, no pancakes.... :(
Maybe I'll dust off some of last year's ideas...they worked pretty well.Permalink | Read 2624 times | Comments (0)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
Here's a local version of the story:
http://www.wftv.com/news/6056445/detail.htmlPermalink | Read 2576 times | Comments (1)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
Permalink | Read 2317 times | Comments (0)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
Permalink | Read 2184 times | Comments (0)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
Permalink | Read 2581 times | Comments (0)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
As promised elsewhere, I am finally printing the recipe (actually, a couple of recipes) for Bay Punch, absolutely the best drink in the world to serve with pizza.
Bay Punch was invented by John Lefor and Chip Nimick for Pizza Night at the Towne House computing center at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. The name came from the original pizza source, Bay & Goodman Pizza. It did not change even after we switched to Cap'n Tony's Pizza. The traditional punch bowl is a large dishpan. John says that if it tastes as if it needs more pineapple-orange, add more cranberry, and vice versa. The punch is better if it ages a bit before serving. We used to start making it just as someone left on the 45-minute round trip to get the pizza. Another tradition is the punch ladle, a simple soup ladle, which must be hung on the outside of the punch bowl, and woe to him who puts in inside, where it will slide down and disappear into the drink. Of course this is all tradition—Bay Punch tastes great in a traditional punch bowl, too. But you must squeeze the limes and lemons, not just float them artistically on top. (More)
Permalink | Read 9694 times | Comments (0)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
Permalink | Read 2752 times | Comments (0)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
Permalink | Read 2304 times | Comments (1)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
What a memory Jonathan has. We haven't mentioned pretzels at all this week, but in the car on the way to the airport he suddenly declaimed, "Airplane, pretzels!" Obviously he was more impressed than most people with the in-flight food.
Permalink | Read 2437 times | Comments (1)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]
Permalink | Read 2256 times | Comments (0)
Category Everyday Life: [first] [previous] [next] [newest]