A confession: I love cheese. I’m almost Dutch that way – it’s not really a meal unless there’s a cheese product involved. I am happiest standing at the kitchen counter dipping pretzel sticks into flavored cream cheese. In fact, that’s what I had for lunch the other day. I think about most food (outside of cookies) in terms of whether or not it can be considered a cheese-bearing vehicle. I …
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Cereal as a cure for chaos? Maybe…
The school year is winding down and we’re getting ready to move. Each boy’s school has end-of-year celebrations and parties and exhibits; after-school classes are over; babysitters are away on vacation. Add to that the pile of boxes in the middle of our apartment, waiting to be shipped to Abu Dhabi, and it’s like a double whammy of chaos around here. With all the schedule changes, family dinners have pretty …
in which i pull down the blinds and hop around
First I had to shut the blinds. No, first I had to make sure the kids were asleep, then I had to shut the blinds. I don’t want to be responsible for sending peeping toms into cardiac arrest. Then it was just me and…it. Alone together. Twenty minutes later, I was sweaty and sore, and harboring very nasty feelings towards the person responsible, who smiled and told me everything was …