Wow. Tomorrow is December 1st. Where in the world did 2008 go? Only one more month until the New Year, only 25 days until Christmas – 24 if you’re like me and you celebrate on Christmas Eve vs. through Christmas Day…a Swedish thing. But I like celebrating on Christmas Eve, because then you get to…
All that work getting ready for Thanksgiving, moving furniture to accommodate extra people, getting out the fine china and silver and making sure everything is perfect, then spending all those hours slaving over a hot stove and creating yummy edibles for the Mega Feast… Everything goes as smoothly as possible, the turkey is cooked to…
As I do final preparations for this afternoon’s Mega Feast, I pause and give thanks for many things. I’m thankful to God for blessing me with a beautiful daughter in spite of the prospect of not being able to have children after a brush with cervical cancer 20 years ago – I couldn’t have special-ordered…
I am so over having a cold! Seriously! I have had a cold/sinus infection for about 7 weeks now – I was on a 10-day regime of strong antibiotics, but a couple of days after I finished those up, my sinus infection came raging back…it was as if time had been set back to before…
So here it is, only a few days from Thanksgiving! The next couple of days are going to be ultra busy, at least I did my last-minute shopping for the Thanksgiving Feast today so I won’t have to join the panic crowds on Wednesday. Besides, I’m trying to do a bunch of ‘make ahead’ things…
I guess I’ve been a ‘green’ coffee drinker for years… I ran across this article on MSN/Slate yesterday, called “The Great Coffee Debate” – it’s a great article about the different methods of brewing coffee and how ‘green’ or ‘non-green’ each method is. My hubby and I picked up a couple of French Coffee Presses…
