Butter and Rest: Blood and Irony
It is annoying to let yourself down. Especially when you disappoint yourself over an absolutely foolish and arbitrary goal, like I have this week. Because I am literally the only person who cares that I did not succeed in getting … Read More
Sleep Deprivation is My Superpower
Confession time: my reading habits tend towards the schizophrenic. On any given day, you might find me reading G.K. Chesterton, Francis Schaeffer, Martin Luther, Fredrik Backman or John Greene and absolutely everything in between. Yes, prying Reader, I have even … Read More
Labor Intensive Bacon
Once upon a time, I lived in a place where I had a bakery for buying my bread and Sabbath pastries, a Meat Fairy who kept me well supplied, a farmer’s market for vegetables, and a source for local dairy. … Read More
We’ll Leave the Light On
I question the viability of any journey that produces no entertaining tale, no humorous tidbit destined to become ingrained in family legend for decades to come. If a family travels in the middle of the forest and can’t turn on … Read More
Butter and Rest: Grandpa Blueberry Granola
No, I didn’t just run out of ideas this week. It has been a week of travel, of remembrance, of the worst sleep in a hotel I have ever had (which is saying something), and of recovery. My family said … Read More
St. George and Jonah (When Your Best Ideas Go Kaploof)
I actually did have a post I was working on yesterday. No, scratch that, one I started on Monday (check me all not waiting til the last minute!). And it maybe possibly wasn’t even terrible, which I thought for a … Read More
Whys, Wherefores, and Wannabes
Being somewhat mad with power, as all honest homeschooling mothers will admit to being, we chose to push off our return to the glorious halls of learning (otherwise known as the dining table) until this morning. I spent last week … Read More
Butter and Rest: Hello, Tricked Out Waffles
Happily ensconced in all your blissfully naive New Year’s resolutions? Good. Then we can talk waffle decadence. https://adventuresincooking.com/coconut-waffles-with-lime-curd-cardamom/ First, you are going to roll your eyes at me and make snorty sounds about the idea of making fancy schmancy whipped … Read More
Faerie Lights and Why I Am No Good at Being Saved
Sometimes epiphanies hit out of the blue, solidly on the hindparts of my cranium, causing spots to dance before my eyes. Yesterday clocked me solidly with one of those. And it shouldn’t have, I think. I should have been aware … Read More
Put the Armor on the Ground
Quail the Second is becoming well-versed in the art of metaphor… I am proud to busting! I have noticed this quality developing slowly in her over the last year or so, but the other day, she walked into the kitchen … Read More