? Well, 1.) There’s a door that I can close and hopefully my kids will think that I’m using the bathroom and give me some privacy, 2.) I can lock this door if I choose to 3.) There’s a seat when you close the toilet lid and...
I’ve also been working on the first of two French Macaroon pullovers for a couple of bigger kids in my life. I’m going to make a third, too. One for my granddaughter, one for my grand-nephew and one for my daughter’s friend’s baby because he doesn’t have a knitter in the...
To learn how to make custom cakes, you can start practicing your cake decorating skills by watching tutorials online or taking a class in person (there’s probably a company near you that teaches this skill!). The better your cakes look, the more customers you’ll attract, so learning thro...
The flower petals have dropped. Tiny, hard berries are taunting me with their promise. It will be quite some time before they will be ripe and ready for picking. Normally, when I can’t stand the wait for this summer’s fruit, I usually have last year’s berries stashed in my freezer...
bake a sourdough recipeeveryweekend, but I believe this post outlines a manageable schedule for fresh breadmostweekends. It can be challenging to carve out time from our busy work schedule day after day to devote to sourdough starter maintenance—with two kids at home, believe me; I get it....
greenhouse. I love it. There are tomato and pointed red peppers seedlings, broad beans, parsley and nicotianas to come (maybe) and more. One of my uncles once told me: “Gardening is a matter of luck and cosmic force, Rachel.” So true. Let’s hope both come through for me. ...
At a end-of-semester Christmas party in college, the kind where everyone brings in something to share, one girl in that class brought in cookies. She looked almost apologetic when she announced, “I know that not everyone is going to like these cookies. They are made from a non-fat reci...
In April, before I went to the fellowship last summer, I visited Duke for my spouse’s alumni reunion weekend. It was my first time and I was excited to see the gardens and stay in a B&B and be away from the kids for a weekend. On the last morning of the reunion, we got in a...
m having a blast leading my boot camp at the yoga studio, and then teaching a heated vinyasa class as well as a slow flow class. All the students are so much fun. Even though they glare at me as I make them hold a plank for balance on one leg for too long, I know they are ...
jump to recipe It was the 4th of July, and the kids deserved cookies. And when we were in Pennsylvania, I’d picked up something intriguing called “butterscotch peanut butter”, and I thought that would make for an interesting variation. I was …[Continue reading] ...