Today lasted approximately 48 hours. We started the day with a big breakfast of homemade breakfast sandwiches – big english muffins, sausage, egg and white cheddar! So good! Ed and I built the first bed for our square foot garden. I have long dreamed and talked about having a garden and this is the year…
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Another Sunday at home. The weather is beautiful still. We spent the afternoon working on some Easter art and cards on the back porch. Lots of silly giggles and laughs. Meeko will only settle down if he has his blanket so even though it is very warm outside, I apparently have to bring a fleece…
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Like many households, I am cooking way more these days. Even before our “stay home” order, I cooked dinner at least five times a week, usually giving myself a break and eating dinner out on weekends. Now, however, other than the once a week we are getting takeout from one of a handful of our…
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Another Sunday church service from our loft. I finally figured out how to connect my laptop to the tv so we are no longer crowding around a small 15″ screen with poor audio. Some days I find the slowness more peaceful, restful and other days it is more somber. Today is a peaceful and restful…
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Another Sunday of worshiping online from home. A plus side of this situation is no one is rushed getting ready to get out the door. We can attend church in our pajamas and make time for breakfast together – even homemade waffles!
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I went to the grocery store today. We only needed a few things, mostly for lunch and snacks for the week ahead. I debated all week whether to rely on Instacart or just go myself. Wednesday had been a really difficult day for me personally. The anxiety had been building. The first few days of…
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The girls wanted to do some baking so we found a new recipe to try from The Cook’s Illustrated cookbook. I bought this cookbook maybe a year ago but had only tried a single recipe from it. We decided on brown sugar cookies. I supervised a little but mostly I was the photographer while I…
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More people are getting anxious about the coronavirus pandemic and in the last couple of days there has been a mad dash to the grocery stores to stock up on anything and everything. Toilet paper, paper towels, and disinfectant wipes were some of the first items to go but even the meat counters, dairy, and…
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