My mother in law Sally is a devoted See’s chocolate fan, so for every holiday you can count on her having a box of it lying around. When we went down for Christmas she also had a selection of their…
2011 Year of Pleasures #2
I just got a great big box of craft supplies delivered to my door! Long term readers may remember that this time every year I make the Christmas cards I’ll be sending out in December. It may be the smartest…
2011 Year of Pleasures #1
This time of year is so fun because the kitties turn extra fuzzy as they grow their winter coats. Jem, our little gray cat, grows little points off the side of her cheeks we call her wings. Cheetara would grow…
2010 Year of Pleasures #46
Thanksgiving might just be my very favorite day of the year. Even with how bonkers I get for Christmas, if you were going to boil it down to one best day, I’d have to go with a day that required…
2010 Year of Pleasures #45
I love ice cream, but usually only for a few bites at a time. I’m a fickle ice cream lover, and by the time it starts to melt I’m often done with it anyway. When I was spoiling myself in…
2010 Year of Pleasures #44
Getting back from Boston was a little bit of an ordeal. There were a whole bunch of rain delays and canceled flights, but I ended up lucking into a replacement flight that went all the way from Boston to Oakland,…
2010 Year of Pleasures #43
I hated babysitting when I was a teen, but there was one family I would watch and it was because the mom was really into food preservation and always had home dried bananas in the house. Bananas dried in a…
2010 Year of Pleasures #42
Fall is here! And with it comes the fabulous flavor of pumpkin in all of my favorite treats. Pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin spiced hot chocolate, and pumpkin flavored frozen yogurt. I don’t know if I love it so much…
2010 Year of Pleasures #41
A beautiful expression of friendship from a truly beautiful friend. I am so lucky to have you in my world, Janet.
2010 Year of Pleasures #40
Do you know how much time I have saved thanks to this beautiful, beautiful machine? No trying to steer a stroller through a maze of a line, no more trying to get around people filling out forms, now I just…