Seriously. It was so fun! Disney’s Next Princess was awesome, well-behaved and not-whiny. Everyone had a good time, and we stuck to my plan, which was a good plan (mostly because I actually took the time to plan) but also because my plan had these components: one activity in the morning, one in the afternoon [...]
Categories: Travel
Let’s cut to the chase: you just want to know what is in the GF Tea at Brown’s Hotel, right? (I know this because when I was planning on going to tea, I searched all over the internet for gluten-free tea, and that’s what I wanted to know). Here is a list: sandwiches: egg salad, [...]
Categories: Dessert,Eating Out,Travel
This year Disney’s Next Princess requested a Music Party. Like last year (Princess Party) there isn’t a party person who you can call (like a clown or magician) who will come to your house and entertain twelve seven-year-olds while you sit in the dining room with your friends sipping margaritas. There should be! This might [...]
Categories: Crafty
Disney’s Next Princess requested lemon-lime pie for her birthday “cake.” Press-in gluten free crust (made with almond and rice flours), lemon-lime curd. So easy to make! I am serious! You end up with four egg whites, so I made meringues, too, because, y’know I’m totally Martha Stewart like that.
Categories: Cooking at Home,Dessert
One of my mother’s favorite restaurants is Maggiano’s. It’s an upscale chain, and one of their restaurants is in the Grove in Southern California, which is why (until now) it wasn’t one of my favorites. The chain thing is irritating. And the Grove basically ate the old Farmer’s Market (a place I remember fondly from [...]
Categories: Eating Out
Look what I knitted! Yes, this is for DNP! No, I will not knit one for you.
Categories: Knitting
I took three 6-year-olds to the Fire Station jobsite. Aren’t I brave? Actually they are three very responsible children with a lot of self-control, which is why they were invited. Plus they are seriously into architecture and construction. Well, the two boys are. DNP is not that into architecture and construction, but she asked all [...]
Categories: Where We Live
The olden days: dump ingredients into breadmaker. Set timer. The next morning hot bread comes out! This hot bread was totally making me sick! Later: Udi’s. Which is fine, but sometimes you want piping hot bread! A few days ago: Searching through my regular blogs, I found this post, and for the first time it [...]
Categories: Cooking at Home
One of my favorite Santa Fe traditions. Follow Mary and Joseph and their band of musicians (no wise men, no sheep) around the Plaza. At several intervals they sing for a room at the inn (in Spanish) and a devil appears in windows, on balconies and at portals and tells them to “Vayanse!” while spectators [...]
Categories: Where We Live
This is my basic black cardigan. My own pattern, based on every other pattern I’ve ever knitted. I wanted something warm, but not too warm. Something basic, but not too boring. Something cozy, but not frumpy. I partly didn’t blog on it, because I overwore it. Have you ever overworn anything? Like to the point [...]
Categories: Knitting