For a long time now I’ve been wanting to host a kind of open studios at our house for kids to come over and make art after school. Turns out some of my friends who have kids in Honey’s grade were interested in the same thing. I finally got my act together and we had …
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Friends and Food
I took a few photos of our refrigerator yesterday. I’m not normally compelled to document the major appliances in my life, but here’s a quick look at what came over me: We love all the holiday cards and photos that we get from our family and our friends, and they usually end up stuck all …
HESS
Our Beautiful Aunt Mary and Uncle Dick gave Hot Wheels a new HESS race car for Christmas. It’s actually better than a race car, if that’s even possible. It’s a race car with a smaller race car inside it. A nested race car. He has been spending many a happy hour since, getting the race …
The Way it Should Be
Random Holiday Notes
Christmas Eve gingerbread house construction at Sherri and Rik’s house There’s something about all those small bowls filled with twisted red vines, ruby red hots, sparkling sugar gumdrops… it’s a story, a fairy tale. We had such a beautiful Christmas Eve, warm and bright, with amazing friends. Holiday boats Every December, we make sure we …
Happy New Year!
Resolution #1: Stop ignoring blog. Holidays are the best and worst times to have a blog. They’re overflowing with all the kinds of activities I like most, which means I have plenty to talk about but no time in which to say it. We were a whirlwind of seasonal festivities. My lists had lists. Now …
Ginger Muffins
This afternoon, the combined effects of a crawling post office line (bad) and a bike ride home in a soft grey rain (good) left the kids and me in need of a serious snack. Fortunately, the other day I tried out a new recipe for ginger muffins from Cooks Illustrated. Take two of these with …
Saturday
A weekend ago, on Saturday morning, Honey decided to make some scrambled eggs. She started out with just your basic eggs and milk and some grated cheese. Then she decided it needed some tomato, and as I passed through the kitchen on the way to my room I saw her dart to the fridge, saying, …
Salad of the Month
I met this persimmon salad at Pizzeria Delfina in San Francisco, and I’ll admit my first impression was that it was a bit fresh. In a good way, fortunately. Let me start with a quick word about the restaurant – wow. Ha! Now here are a few more words: the staff hit the perfect balance …
Another Bike Post
Here are three fun biking events from the past two weeks: 1. Family Ride to Tiburon Over Thanksgiving weekend, we finally took a great ride that we’d been planning forever with our friends Rik and Sherri and their two awesome kids. We went from Mill Valley to Tiburon on a clear and windy Saturday afternoon. …