Finally! Golden Gate Bridge!
It was Sunday morning, our final day in San Francisco. The white fog was comfy on the hills beyond the condo’s windows. Sutro Tower was nowhere in sight. A sweet redheaded pal lay beside me with patterned breaths.
Cheeseburger Pie
There have been many perks to marrying into Chris’ family. High up there is his mom’s cooking. As I’ve mentioned before, I took the “This isn’t how my mom’s tasted…” comments early in our marriage in stride. Primarily because I was trying to achieve exactly that – her recipes – because they taste so good.…
Off to Weedsport We Go
Cornfields are swishing by. The sky is a beautiful blue puffed with bright clouds. Train tracks race beside our car as the kids are engrossed in activities within the car. It is a calm scene that lasts all of three minutes before someone has dropped a cup, cracker toughs need refilling, a baby has pooped.
Bluebird Gap Farm
Sometimes life requires a change of scenery. One doesn’t have to travel far (’cause Lord knows traveling too far can get ugly with kids and takes a certain mental preparedness…or moment of insanity). My favorite and most energized mother in law, a.k.a. “Grandma”, had the fun idea of heading over the bridges and through the…
Cookies! and the Famous O’Harry Bar Recipe
Warmed ovens. Chilled dough. Accoutrements galore. Stools pulled to counters. Books stacked in chairs for little buddies to participate fully. Patient, loving, hands guiding smaller ones from step to step; rolling out dough, cutting into fun shapes, decorating little master pieces. It was the traditional cookie day of my childhood. We would go to a…