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{April 10, 2013} Siblings Day

Did you know that today is National Siblings Day?

I didn’t until I saw a post on Facebook a few hours ago. Well, that solved the “what am I going to blog about today question?” And just for the record, I don’t have to blog towards midnight, it just seems to work out that way, I think about things during the day, then something comes up and I’m off doing something else and then it’s about 10 and I remember, it’s time to blog.

Back to siblings. Siblings are great, some are born together, some are from the same parents, some are from different parents, some aren’t even from the same parents at all, then there’s brother from another mother, ha ha.

I know there are people out there who don’t have siblings and can’t imagine life with one, take away from their time, their relationship with their parents and then there are some who have multiple siblings and wish they were only children! Even kids like myself, with one sibling, at one time or another wished they were only children!

When you’re kids, it’s a hard lesson when you find out, your younger sibling isn’t going anywhere, they at there for the long haul, you can’t give them away, hide them or sell them, oh well. I myself, found out at one point that I despised my sister, I was getting headaches, the rocks were clanging in my head, couldn’t see the blackboard, all at the same time, I needed glasses and she was there to stay, so deal with it!

On the other hand, I remember when my mom was pregnant with my sister, GES, everyone asked what I wanted, a sister I said proudly! Then I used to tell her she should be lucky, I could have asked for a brother! I remember the ride home from the hospital, I say in the back seat of the green beetle bug (see, beetle love started very early for me!) with my mom, holding my new baby sister in my lap all the way home! There is a great picture of me getting to hold her on my parents bed, I look at it now and it’s like it was yesterday. (ok, GES, I am tearing up as we speak, man, we have turned into mommy!)

I was a few months shy of being four years old when she was born and I knew I was in for a treat, my best friend for life. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t all perfect, there were times I tried to leave her behind when friends would come to play, but there were never two more steadfast friends, confidants and conspirators than us. During the summer, there weren’t other kids to play with, so it was us, we shared a room at the summer house and it was great. We’d bike to the library, when we were old enough to go alone, we’d bike to the beach, I still remember holding on to the bike while roller blading, that didn’t end well!

We fought like cats and dogs and we could say horrible things to each other, but no one better say anything against my sister, you have me to deal with. And that’s the way it should be!

My favorite things she would yell at me when she was little…”D, you’re getting on my nervous!”

One of the great things about having a sibling that I wish everyone could experience and realize is that you now have a best friend for life, never take that for granted. I don’t know what my life wold have been like as an only child, glad I never had to find out!

As we got older, I remember my clothes going missing, someone going through my things, borrowing without asking, seeming like she got everything (we all have a flair for the dramatic at that age!)and being annoyed, but inside, so flattered! I left my army jacket when I went to college, I wonder what happened to it! I was at my sister’s house a few weeks ago, the sheets for the bed I was using? My first set of sheets from my college dorm room. I used to type her papers when she was in high school and wrap all the presents. I’m sure she could have done all that, and if she just did it because she wanted her big sister to help, I never complained.

I remember giving her my drivers license when I moved to GA, a friend of hers ended up using it, looked more like me than she did! But people were always telling us we looked alike, our mom had trouble telling our baby photos apart!

I remember little siblings weekend, when she came to stay with me my freshman year, getting to show her off, introduce her to everyone and then visiting her when she was in college, so proud hearing from people how great she was, some things never change!

As we’ve gotten older and grown apart logistically, we still remain steadfast friends and companions and conspirators. We realized we’re maturing, well, sometimes, when we can go more than 4 days without having a fight when we’re together, oh, it used to be 1day, maybe 2 if we were lucky!

We cook together, what feast we put on for Passover! (Shhh…don’t tell the vegans and vegetarians that I will taste most of what we cook, just a taste, I still remember what’s grandma and mommy’s chicken soup tasted like!). We work so well together and then when it’s all said and done, we sit down across from each other, prop our feet in each others laps and rub rub rub!

We laugh together, we cry together, we watch really bad TV together. What more could you want? One of the best things, I am getting to watch my sister become a wife and a mother and we far as mothers go, what a great one! I’m at every birthday, help plan and set them up, when I can, sometimes even channeling her when talking to her kids. I get to read night night books, stifle laughs when there is a tantrum (the kids, not her!) and get to marvel at what a fantastic job she has done with her kids, someone everyone could look up to. And I love those times when she lets go, doesn’t take herself too seriously and laughs at herself, well, I can’t laugh at her alone!

We may not see each other or talk on the phone other very often, but the time we do get is special and I value and treasure it. I know a lot of time when she texts “FaceTime?” It’s because of my nieces, but I still get to see my sister and I love that. She has been there for me through some tough times and I appreciate her so much for that and even better when she gets riled up on my behalf!

So, as it is National Siblings Day, I would like to give a big hello, a giant hug, huge smile and a whole lotta love to my baby sister, GES. I love you.

{April 4, 2013} The Place Beyond The Pines

Or as I like to call it…two hours and fifteen minutes of my life I’m not getting back.

It wasn’t that bad, but the best part of the movie was the cookie CKM got me and it was ok. It was vegan (just a coincidence, but not as good as the gluten free lemon bars she made!) well, actually, the best part about the movie, it was free! Thanks CKM!

The movie is billed with Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Ray Liotta and Eva Mendes in the top billing. I thought because of the movie posters and trailers that Ryan Gosling was going to be in it a lot longer. I have to say, they did a great job making Bradley Cooper look 29 in the beginning of the movie. Ryan Gosling is a traveling carnival motorcycle wonder, he finds out that a waitress he was with a year ago had a baby (not a spoiler alert) and he wants to stick round and do right by him.

Bradley Cooper is a rookie cop with bigger ideas for his future, Ray Liotta is the seasoned cop and Eva Mendes is the waitress and the makeup on her was great, she looked like crud! (Besides Corina Corina, has Ray Liotta played a good guy? Someone we could root for?)

Each main character, Gosling and Bradley has a one year old son, how they feel about them, towards them, take care of them and deal with an incident. About 2/3 of the way through the movie, we jump 15 years and here, so a to not have a spoiler alert…guess who ends up meeting.

All in all, it seemed to take a long time to get somewhere, it wasn’t for me, but it was still fun for a night out.

One of the best lines…there is a boy who was raised by his stepfather and when he asks about his “real dad” the dad says (in his best Darth Vader..I am your father… And I know every single one of you said it in your heads or out loud with that voice!)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1817273/?ref_=sr_1

Since this was a movie review, I would like to say a fond farewell to Roger Ebert who passed away today. There was a great picture in Facebook…a sunset with two silhouettes, Roger Ebert says, “Hey Gene, brought popcorn” Gene Siskel says “Roger, I’ve been saving you a seat”. Two thumbs up I say.

{March 31, 2013} Castle

As I have probably mentioned, I don’t have cable and if I haven’t, pull your chin back up, not everyone has TV! I say that I don’t have cable because when I say I don’t have TV, most people think I mean I don’t have a TV, just means I don’t have cable.

Now don’t cry for me Argentina, ha ha. I have a TV and I have a DVD carousel that holds up to 400 DVDs and CDs, there are about 350 movies in it and more on the outside (if I put each series in, there would be no room left!), then there are the movies on my two portable hard drives. See…I’m doing just fine, movie wise!

I also have Netflix and Hulu, lucky me! I watch movies on both or I find a TV show that I like and watch the entire series.

I have watched Castle in the past a few times, but I don’t think it was one of the ones I DVR’d when I had cable (possibly, but I don’t remember) and I watch it when I visit my sister, she DVR’s and we watch together.

I found it on Hulu (grrr commercials) and watched this season, now I want more and it only has season 5, bummer. Netflix doesn’t have it, where to look.

Castle is about Richard Castle, an award winning crime novelist who consults with the NYPD, much to their chagrin in the beginning, but as time and cases go on, he becomes a valuable asset to the department and the team he works with. They become more than partners, they become a family.

There are three other main characters in the department, Beckett, the future love interest (spoiler alert?), Esposito and Ryan. There are others that stay for a season, but these three are the team. At home is Castles’s daughter Alexis and his mother, Martha, an actress.

The crimes are inventive, sometimes inspiration for his books, possibly even from his books, the one liners are cheesy as all get out, you might cringe, but you still laugh. (You might have already thought it, you just weren’t going to say it out loud!) Castle will give a new insight or perspective of the crime that might be slightly unconventional, helps add something to the case.

Sometimes there may be a cliff hanger, but in the end, everything works out, it’s a one out drama, dramedy? after all. I recommend it, at least you can find season 5 on Hulu.

{March 28, 2013} Passover Recipes…As promised!

The food from the Passover Sedar is so wonderful. I wanted to share the recipes with you.

Please let me know if you have questions and enjoy!!!

[I have to find the recipe for chicken soup, I do know it has raw chicken, lots of water, parsley, salt, carrots, celery, parsnips, turnips, sometimes consume and bouillon. We have tried to make matza balls from scratch, we were not successful, so we made them from a box and we are ok with that!]

Beef brisket [5 people – 4pounds]
Season the day before
Cover brisket with granulated garlic and ketchup
chop an onion and add to pan filled with 1/2 inch of water
bake at 325 for 3 hours.

Turkey
1 onion
Orange Juice
granulated garlic
Take inards from both ends. Cut onion in 1/2, place inside cavity.
Pour orange juice all over the bird and in cavity, leave 1/2 inch in
bottom of pan.
Sprinkle garlic all over and inside. Cover with aluminum foil tent.
After 2 hours, baste every 1/2 hour [1 lb per person; 20 min/lb]
last 1/2 brown by removing aluminum

Champagne Turkey
1 (12 pound) whole turkey, neck and
giblets removed
1/2 cup butter, cubed
2 apples, cored and halved
1 tablespoon garlic powder
salt and pepper to taste
2/3 (750 milliliter) bottle champagne
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Rinse turkey, and pat dry. Gently loosen turkey breast skin, and insert pieces of butter between the skin and breast. Place apples inside the turkey’s cavity. Sprinkle with garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Place turkey in a roasting bag, and pour champagne over the inside and outside of the bird. Close bag, and place turkey in a roasting pan.
3. Bake turkey 3 to 3 1/2 hours in the preheated oven, or until the internal temperature is 180 degrees F (85 degrees C) when measured in the meatiest part of the thigh. Remove turkey from bag, and let stand for at least 20 minutes before carving.

Veggie Patties
These were a big hit! We got them from a kids Passover recipe list!

2 cups zucchini, broccoli and/or cauliflower [we didn’t use cauliflower]
1/2 cup matzo meal
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons dried basil
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
canola or vegetable oil
Accompaniments: Marinara sauce, ketchup or mustard [we thought duck sauce would work well too]

Place the veggies in a food processor, pulse to chop fine. Add the chopped veggies to a bowl with flour, salt, egg, basil and garlic powder. Mix to combine. Heat oil in skillet over medium heat, place 1 tablespoon of batter into the pan for each pancake.
Cook for 1-2 minutes on each side.

We tripled the recipe for 30 patties.

Crispy Potato and Leek Roast
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
4 pounds russet potatoes, peeled
4 shallots, thickly sliced, lengthwise
4 medium leeks, sliced thin and rinsed well
Coarse salt
1/2 to 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes [optional – we didnt use them]
8 sprigs thyme

Preheat oven to 375. Brush bottom of a round 9-inch baking dish with olive oil. With a sharp knife or mandolin, slice potatoes very thinly crosswise. Arrange potato slices vertically in dish. Wedge shallots throughout [it would have been better if we’d place the shallots between more slices of potato] Sprinkle with salt and pepper flakes [if using] brush with remaining olive oil. Bake 1 1/4 hours, add thyme and leeks and bake until potatoes are cooked through with a crisp top, about 35 minutes more.
Matza Apple Kugel
6 matzas
6 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons margarine, softened
1 cup soaked raisins
1/2 chopped peacans [optional – I never add nuts]
2 granny smith apples, grated

Preheat oven to 400. break matza into small pieces, place in a medium sized bowl and cover
with hot water, wait one minute and drain.

In another bowl, beat the eggs, add sugar, vanilla, raisins, [peacans] and apples. Mix with the matza. Pour into greased 3-qt cassarole. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar, dot with margarine.
Bake at 400 for 10 minutes, lower to 300 and bake for another 20 minutes. Great warm or cold
[This is my FAVORITE dish for passover!]

Macaroons
1-1/3 cups Bakers Angel Flake Coconut
1/3 cup sugar
3 tbsp matzo meal
1/8 tsp salt
2 egg whites [I made a batch with 2 eggs and the only difference is they came out a little cakier]
1/2 cup almond extract [I use vanilla extract since GES is SERIOUSLY ALLERGIC to almonds]
18 Planters almonds [again, I don’t add almonds, just as good]

Preheat oven to 325. Mix coconut, sugar, matzo meal and salt in a large bowl. Stir in egg whites and almond/vanilla extract until well blended.
DROP teasponfuls of dough, 2 inches apart, onto lightly greased baking sheets. Press almonds
into center of each cookie.
Bake 20 minutes or until edges are golden brown.Immediately remove from baking sheets. Cool on wire racks

Matza Brittle
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
1 cup chopped nuts [optional – and i never add nuts]

Line a jelly roll pan with tin foil [I cover the sides of the pan, this helps with clean up big time!]
Place a layer of matza in the pan.
In a saucepan, combine butter and sugar and bring to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes. Pour over crackers, bake at 350 for 5 minutes or until crackers float. Remove from oven . When cools, break into pieces.

There are almost never any leftovers!

[for those who keep kosher for Passover more strictly, I have never used margarine, sorry]
This recipe was originally made with saltines, you can also add chocolate chips when it comes out of the oven]
[sprinkle chocolate chips when the pan comes out of the oven, when melted, sprinkle nuts on top, cut into bars]

{March 27, 2013} Bittersweet

Today I came home.

The day started very early, well, not very early if you have an almost 3 and a 6 year old. Get dressed, kids in the car, drop mommy off at the choo choo, come back for auntie J, go to school, drop off lunch in the kindergarten room, drop off MG in the toddler room, hugs and kisses, because I didn’t think I would see them again that day. “Poppa, could you pick us up right after lunch? People do that, it would, be good.”

On the way back to the house, stopped at Zaftig’s, a great restaurant, for breakfast. They have some great shirts, “Happy Challadays”, “Does this bagel make my butt look big?”. Zaftig is a nice/tender way of saying fat. I had a Wisconsin apple, Vermont cheddar cheese omelet, wow! Sounded suspect, but tasted delicious!

Back at the house, conference calls, issue tracking, work work work. Pack my bag, I left a bunch of gifts, only brought back a new jacket and monopoly that GES gave me, the bag was 2 pounds lighter than when I left, what?

Off to get the girls! “You didn’t pick us up after lunch” “Well, it was after lunch, just not right after lunch”. I want a snack, I don’t want that snack, well, that’s what there is and you can get something else when you get home.

We’re going to the airport? Yeah! MG “I want to go to the airport with you”, then, “I want to go on the airplane with you, I want to go with you”. “One day you will come with me, we’ll have a great time”.

We got to the airport and she really wanted to go with me. The tears started, oh how hard to leave! Kisses and run away! Poppa was smart, he brought two iPads to keep them occupied on the way home. When I talked to him later, he said the girls missed me, but luckily, I’ll see them again soon, via FaceTime and then for MG’s birthday.

It was bittersweet…hard to watch the tears, but it made me feel so good. I do love those girls!

{March 26, 2013} A success, part II

So, second night of Passover was a success, how good are we?!

The day started at 8:30, I chose to snooze the 7am alarm, I can do that, you know…I got up at 8:30 and started working. About 10, GES made dad and I matzo brei, it’s a yummy breakfast to have during Passover. You take a few pieces of matzo and soak them in eggs [you use the same number of eggs as you would for any breakfast, typically 2 per person, then scramble them in a frying pan. serve with sugar, maybe some jam, let’s just say… Y U M!!!] http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/matzo_brei/

Continued to work until 5, in between, we made another batch of macaroons, matzo brittle and matzo balls for soup. Everyone started showing up about 5:30 and what a houseful we had!

There were less people, but it was a dear and sweet group and almost everyone was related. There was LS, a fabulous family friend, a fantastic photographer who has taken almost all of the formal family photos [say that 10 times fast!] for my sister’s family and her network of friends. She has also recently become an aunt [she and I are honorary aunties to all these kids] and she is tickled to bits! She has been at so many parties and celebrations of this group that they are throwing her a party next weekend to congratulate her on becoming an aunt! Mazel Tov to you LS! Welcome to the club!

SS and TS, with their fantastic wee tots S and her baby sister S, I know, a lot of S’s, but they are a fabulous bunch! The girls are great and so good with each other, gotta get my hugs and kisses! TS’s brother, SR and his lovely wife LR, their twins, E and S, Q-T!!! As E’s mother posted on FaceBook tonight, “Passover may well very well be E’s all time favorite holidays as he gets to eat giant “crackers” with his dinner.” SR and GES went to college together, it’s great that they’ve been friends this long and that the families are so close!

SR and TS’s parents, D and J [Papa J] were able to join us, D is one of the best knitters I have ever met, my girls have received some amazing gifts from D and TS. They are grandma and grandpa to all the kids, just like my dad, it’s a treat and a joy to watch them all with the kids! I love going to SR and TS’s house for family dinners and to play, TS has such great taste.

Last, but certainly not least! RG and MG and their twins S & A! LOVE them! RG is a runner and I mean a runner! I don’t know how many times she’s run the Boston Marathon and this was the 2nd year I knew about her going to Tel Aviv to run a marathon! Unfortunately, it was too hot, so they cancelled the marathon, she did get to run a half, but it was hard for her, she had trained so hard! I am so blown away by her! MG is a motorcycle enthusiast and it’s great to talk to him about bikes and the rides he’s taken.

There was noise and laughter and stories and food and love, what could be better than that?

Like a gust of wind, they were gone and it was time to clean up and get ready for ‘night nights’. MG played a game and got books and EJ asked me to help her with her homework! Luckily, it was something I could handle!

Tomorrow I am heading home and it’s bittersweet. I miss DCM, my friends, my cats, but I love being with my girls, sister and brother in law and my dad, but the great thing to remember…I will be back in a few months for MG’s birthday! And I get to do it all over again [except the cooking for 4 days part!]

Thank you to my family [related and extended] for making my life full.

{March 26, 2013} A success!

What a day and what a success!

Ok, so I started the day by snoozing until 7:40, I can do that. There were calls and updates and time entry and meetings.

In between there was cleaning, straightening, hard drive connecting, reheating then cooking, (Matzah brittle, home made macaroons, haroset and veggie soup and a brisket).

AS brought the girls him from school about 4:30, his brother, JS showed up earlier in the day and his wife, AS got there early and was such a help, thank you! Then it was time to shower and get ready.

People started showing up about 5:30, we had about 26 people! JK and AK with their kids SHK and PK, what a pair of cuties! “Hey Auntie J!” Hugs and kisses all around! JK’s mom, K, BR and BR with their son JR and grandma, new families who hadn’t been and friends with new babies, so wonderful!

JT, my very good friend from Atlanta, who I met on a job a few years ago is now based in Boston and today was her first day here and guess what, she was able to join us! It was crazy and loud and chaotic and fun!

We did a vey abridged version of the Seder, EJ told the story of Passover that she learned in Sunday School, we were so proud of her! By 8:30, the kids that were left had baths, then everyone went home and the cleanup started. GES and I put everything that was left (we give a lot of care packages) in containers, dad did dishes and AS was moving things around.

Bedtime stories, kisses and hugs, whew…GES and I sat down on the sofa about 10:30 and didn’t want to get up!

All in all, an exhausting day, but there was so much love in this house today, you could probably feel it throughout the neighborhood! I’m so proud of my sister and my family, every day they amaze me and I am so honored to have been chosen to be a part of it.

{March 24, 2013} Cooking is almost done!

Passover starts tomorrow night and we are expecting about 20-25 people tomorrow and 20-25 for second night!

Passover has changed quite a bit since my nieces were born. As a kid, we used to go to Grandma M’s in Brooklyn, until we started having seder, the Passover meal, at mom’s house. The tradition was, mom, GES and I would go a few times during the week to help cook and then mom would stay there and dad, GES and I would drive to Brooklyn, stop for pizza and then head to grandma’s. There would be 20, sometimes more and we would laugh and laugh with the sedar and some [ha ha] food thrown in. It was wonderful, one year we even recorded the seder, it was great to listen to it years later.

As we got older, the seder moved to our house and mom and GES and I would do the cooking, grandma was responsible for the applesauce, we had a ‘thing’; she would make the applesauce and i would tell her it needed sugar, no matter how good it was, she expected it, who am I to disappoint a grandma? She also continued to make the multi-colored layered jello, yeah, not a huge favorite with all of us, but that was her thing and my cousin MS would “decant” the jello, the challenge was to get it coming out looking like the jello mold! We still had about 20-25 people and there was sedar, laughter and food.

Speaking of food, soon I am going to post just the recipes we use for the seder, you can these recipes any time.

After my mom passed, we had seder at our house, there were less people and GES and I cooked all the food mom and grandma had made and taught us how to make. When EJ was born, and how convenient of her to be born right around Passover, we had seder at GES and AS’s house, what a blessing. We were about 8 people.

One of the things we enjoy, I know I speak for my sister, is inviting people to join us, the holiday is not only about food and laughter, but celebrating with friends and opening the door to welcome strangers, Elijah’s message to the T. There have always been people at the seder that were not related to us by marriage or blood and to share this time with them is not only a treat and a blessing, but a mitzvah. A mitzvah could be explained as simple as “doing a good deed” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitzvah].

Growing up, we used to follow the seder in the haggadah, the Passover prayer book, the funny part is, not everyone at the table had the same haggadah, that makes for an interesting sedar. My dad always had the ‘master’ haggadah, it had a kid “dunking” a bay chick, you had to be there and we all had the Maxwell House haggadah you got for free from the grocery store!

Now, we all go to GES and AS’s for Passover, and as you know, I’ve been here since Thursday for EJ’s birthday. Seder has grown as more and more friends of my sister and brother in laws have children, as I mentioned, we are expecting 20-25 people, that’s adults and children and we do an abridged version of seder. It used to take us about 4-6 hours from start to finish, now, seder takes about 30 minutes tops, [think Spongebob] still with all the good food, chatter and laughter, learning, messages and meaning.

It’s the togetherness, sharing the holiday and the moment, doesn’t matter if you’re Jewish or not, please join us, the door is open, the food is overflowing, the fellowship is overwhelming and the love is just right.

A zissen Pesach to you!

{March 23, 2013} Party! Party! Party!

EJ turned SIX on Thursday and it was great to be here on her birthday, to see her blow out candles, give her the tooth fairy pillow I made, read her a princess story and have soooooo many questions asked, listen to her read me “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” (she is reading SO well!) and then get good night kisses.

Today, was the big dance party!

This morning started quietly; GES and EJ volunteered at the local high school for Cradle to Crayons, an organization that takes in toys, clothes, school supplies and so much more to homeless and low income children. http://cradlestocrayons.org/
My sister is very involved in my nieces lives and how they grow into, not only girls and young women, but into human beings, she molds not only their bodies, but hearts and minds. Truly a joy and honor to watch.

Then it was Panera Bread for brunch and then back to the house to make brownies, because EJ didn’t want cake, she wanted brownies for her party, then chill for a bit (felt like, maybe 3 minutes) then on to the Boston Sports Club for EJ’s birthday party.

We got there about 4:40, it was an evening party after all! We set up in Party Room 1; brownies, water, plates, napkins and juice boxes at each seat, birthday signs. The kids started arriving about 5, by 5:15 we followed the leaders upstairs to a dance room.

There were different dancing games, musical mats, the same as musical chairs except there were exercise mats so when the music stops, lie down on a mat. I was partnered with SH and his sister P, they left me and S & A took my hands, what a treat! We ran around and around and around…I was going to go for a run this morning, didn’t need to! Auntie J was beat!

After musical mats, it was music video recording time! The kids were taught a routine, then there was free form dancing and then it was recorded!

After that, back downstairs for pizza, veggie sticks, brownies, water and juice boxes and singing happy birthday!

A few kids came back to the house, we did magic science: made fizzies, glow in the dark fizzies, screams, excitement and fun! They went home and it was time for night nights.

GES and I finished off the chicken soup for Monday and Tuesday, prepped a turkey and had some fantastic dessert from Mike’s Pastry Shoppe, now a movie, really bad one so far with GES, writing to you and just sitting!

Tomorrow is more cooking and baking, a naming ceremony and spending time together.

Hoping to get some sleep! Nighty night!

{March 22, 2013} Brain dead and smiling

Ok, so I sat down to write to you about a few different things and all if a sudden, it’s 30 minutes later!

GES and I had a very busy and productive day. Up early, shopping 95% done, lunch with a favorite customer, dessert from Mike’s purchases, some cooking finished, some work finished, Poppa and La La arrived, magic science experiment #s 1 and 2 done, go out to dinner, come home, dessert is served, yum!

Tomorrow…cooking, baking, birthday party, collapse!

Sunday…Sunday school, cooking baking, collapse again!

All the cooking is leading up to Monday and Tuesday, about 20-25 people descending here each night for Passover!

Collapse, collapse, collapse! A wonderful experience..food, friends, fellowship and love, what could be better?

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