I like the day after–the day after Christmas when everything is quiet;  the day after a catering gig or a stressful piece of work with a client.  And yes, the day after Thanksgiving.  With a blog about leftovers, this would seem to be my signature day, except the leftovers are always at someone else’s house. [...]

Don’t egg my house.  If you follow In Praise of Leftovers at all, we’re clearly in a holding pattern  here.  It goes: squash/apple/galette/pizza/squash galette/apple cake/squash soup/squash bread and REPEAT.  If you don’t like squash, maybe you’ll stay for the self-deprecating humor?  Please?
After my trip to Gordon’s, I’ve still got squash hanging around.  When my Mom [...]

We’re getting ready for Halloween around here.  We don’t go ape about it.  I’m sure the kids wish I did, but it’s just so much WORK.  I figure if we keep the expectations low, everyone’s happier.  We carve two pumpkins and go trick-or-treating in Columbia City.  We trick-or-treat in the daylight, which I find much [...]

It strikes me that I’m somewhat of a homebody.  Not by choice, really–just necessity.  Mary calls this the “lockstep” phase of life. Between childcare arrangements, Yancey’s crazy schedule, Wyatt’s school, and a tight budget, it just doesn’t seem worth it to get out of step, break formation.  And, to my delight and surprise, there are [...]

This whole blogging endeavor would be worth it just to praise Gordon Skagit Farms.  I took the kids up there to meet my parents for our annual pumpkin patch picnic.  Wyatt’s been going since he was two.  He loves it–don’t get me wrong–but the outing is really for my Mom and I.  Today she said, “Why [...]