So, I’m pretty good when it comes to cookies and cakes.  But I had never worked in yeast breads.  My mother (Grandma on this blog) is quite accomplished in this area (at least I think so), and every year when her pear trees are laden with ripe fruit, she makes the most tasty Cinnamon Swirl […]

Today is my birthday, and I am still over thirty.  😉 Yesterday, my grandmother took me, Rerun, and my mom out for a birthday tea at one of the local tea shops, Elizabeth & Alexander’s.  We had a fun time together, being four generations around a tea table. We had the ham along with lunch. […]

Today is the day, and they are off and running! Tad’s bus comes first, arriving at about 8:05, so we have to be out at the bus by 8 am. He got up just after 7, ate a bowl of chocolate Cheerios, got dressed, and had a little time to play with his Batmobile and […]

Ane lost another tooth last Thursday morning.  Our dentist, Dr. S., told us at her last appointment that her top canines had to come out before school started.  That appointment was on the last day of school, and it has taken this long (and the constant threat of having to go back to Dr. S. […]