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Epic food prep
Lately, I feel like all of my time outside of work is spent preparing food for meals that are going to be eaten later. Above is a list that Rose put together, I thought perhaps it would help me feel...
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Christmas 2018
This was a good Christmas. There have been bad ones: The time we had to eat at a Chinese restaurant because our house was under construction, and we thought we had a private room but didn’t, and my...
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Year of the diet?
I don’t like diets. Trendy diets make me want to smear gluten and dairy all over myself, go out in public and touch things that don’t belong to me. Pyramid schemes and/or brain-washy (yeah, that’s a...
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St. Patrick’s Day
My mom and I love an excuse for a color-themed meal. When I was a kid, green dinner on St. Pats Day, and red dinner on Valentine’s was a tradition. My mom really went all out this year, digging up an...
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I’m gonna miss you when you stop eating breakfast in the bathroom
My son insists on eating breakfast in the bathroom, while I shower. He lines up his “friends” on the sill and eats by the window, between the toilet and the litter box (this may be why he never gets...
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Food for the end of an era
Last weekend, I saw my son eat more food in one sitting then I’ve ever seen him eat in his life. Also, he graduated from Pre-K. These two things are related. When Sid was 20 months old we enrolled him...
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Saying goodbye to a sport that defines you
Here’s Rose when she was 4 or maybe 5, in her tiny leo. Leo, that’s what gymnasts call a leotard. I know that now, like I know what a kip and a giant and a layout are, because gymnastics has woven...
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Pandemic Easter
It feels wrong to say we had a lovely Easter today, but we did. Everything was different because everything is different. And though we missed our people and our traditions terribly, we did ok. Maybe...
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Half-birthdays and enchiladas
Normally, I don’t condone half-birthday celebrations. They seem like a gateway to third and quarter birthdays, and if you open that door, your cake situation is going to get totally out of control....
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A very pandemic Christmas
At one point during Christmas dinner, I said something to my brother in law, who was sitting at the opposite end of the table, and he could actually hear me. It was a defining moment. Fresh pasta with...
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