I volunteered to make this scarf for a friend (who is, as I understand it, giving it to another friend) mostly because it was something different. New. Challenging. Just knitting back and forth and back and forth gets old after a while, so it was nice to have a change of pace. I knew it would require enough attention that… View Post
Some sweet little Jehovah’s Witness boy (I say little…he was probably 14) just knocked on my door to give me a message. Nothing new for the JWs, right? WRONG. The boy handed me a flyer and told me, “We’re just inviting people to a memorial for Christ’s death.” Christ’s death? I asked. “Yes,” he said, “Christ’s death.” Well all right… View Post
It’s been a while since I posted a recipe here. The time has come, though, because I’m pretty sure you will want to eat this:What is it, you ask? Why, just the best dessert I’ve made since last Thanksgiving’s caramel apple and pear-raspberry pie triumphs: individual chocolate lava cakes with vanilla cream sauce and strawberries. No big deal. The sauce… View Post
David–out of nowhere–started talking about baby names the other night as we were settling in for bed. This was rather odd because I am the one who is minorly obsessed with names, and have been searching the world over for good ones for as long as I can remember. I am the one who always makes name suggestions; David is… View Post
Oh blog. I’m back to being neglectful, and it has nothing to do with censoring the baby talk or even a lack of things to say. It does, however, have everything to do with the fact that I can’t trust myself to make sense these days. Rumor has it that pregnancy does weird things to your hormones, which in turn… View Post