NOTE: Do all cooking prep work before the family arrives.
Trying to cut vegetables and answer everyone’s questions leads only to disaster.
(No appendages were lost or stitches required; but if I had any doubts, I’m keeping my good knives plenty sharp.)
Adeste, fideles, laeti triumphantes;
Venite, venite in Bethlehem.
Natum videte Regem angelorum.
Venite adoremus, venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus, Dominum.
Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine,
Parturit virgo mater,
Deum verum, genitum, non factum.
Venite adoremus, venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus, Dominum.
En grege relicto, humiles ad cunas
Vocati pastores approperant:
Et nos ovanti gradu festinemus.
Venite adoremus, venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus, Dominum.
Stella duce, Magi Christum adorantes,
Aurum, thus, et myrrham dant [...]
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I [...]
Congratulations Andy and Heather!
Welcome Natalie!
(I’m guessing on the spelling here)
The Library Thing Unsuggester
For obvious reasons, (like the fact that we had six visitors Saturday before the party) I haven’t started my Christmas baking. So tonight I made dough for cookies that needed to be refrigerated. That’s be rugelach, sugar cookies, and a new cookie–sour cream nutmeg cookie. I’ve also branched out and decided to try fresh nutmeg [...]
The other thing that we’ve been busy is planning my Mom’s surprise 60th Birthday party.
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It’s already seven o’clock! Where is everyone!
Okay. I didn’t actually want to be up this early either. But sometimes, there’s just stuff you’ve gotta do.
And to be honest, the stuff I have to do doesn’t involve the computer, so I’d best move along.
(Of course today’s Andy’s wife’s due date. So maybe THAT’S where everyone is!)
Yes, I pretty much didn’t read for the two or so months while we were working on the house, but now that we’re finally getting settled into a routine again…
Fables: 1001 Night of Snowfall (2006) Bill Willingham
If you haven’t read Bill Willingham’s Fables series, then you have really been missing out. Fables is the story [...]
I present evidence of the shearing of the locks.
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I recognize that local food movements and other such similar ideas are very good idea, for a number of reasons. And in the fall I do try to buy local produce when it’s available (Giant Eagle almost always has corn from Preston County.)
Yet I appreciate the fact that I can go to the grocery store [...]
Today’s the day! After 12 years of long hair, Michael has an appointment today for a hair cut.
He’s kept a short ponytail for the last several years, so he doesn’t have enough hair to donate (he donated ponytails to Locks of Love twice in the past) but he says he’s tired of it and getting [...]
A date which will live in Infamy
In 1941, Japanese planes made a surprise attack on the US Navy at Pearl Harbor, killing 2,403 and wounding 1,178. Twenty-one ships were sunk or damaged, including the USS Arizona, which remains on the harbor floor, and the USS West Virginia, which was eventually refloated, repaired, and rejoined the [...]
Move along home! Shap Three!
I’d be hard pressed to tell you why I enjoy that so much. Except that I do.
And anytime Michael or I heard the phrase “Move along home” one or both of us holler, “Shap Two!” (or three, or whatever comes to mind at that instant.)
And that was your completely random bit [...]
How on earth is it December already? I feel like I just got used to writing 2006 on my checks and now you’re telling me the year’s almost over?
What have I been doing for the past 11 months?
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