Stuology

I wrote my last post minutes before I got the call from Mac about Tess. Most people follow on Facebook, so it isn’t brand new news that my SIL Tess is in ICU at KU Med because of acute liver failure. It has been 8 emotional days, most of it was getting one piece of [...]

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Christmas is on Friday. It is always remarkable how fast the end of the year goes once we hit October. Christmas Eve dinner is at our house. I do love hosting it. My SIL is helping with cooking too. It will be fun. Mac doesn’t like it because it usually means he has to do [...]

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LPR Form First, this is a form for Lawrence Parks & Recreation. You create an account, and then add your family members. Ada and Jay were easy. I wasn’t sure about the highest grade when it came to Mac & I. I got an e-mail that said I was registered and I could now log [...]

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Garlic Soba Noodles What’s Cooking Friday These come from 101 Cookbooks. I use minced garlic and not powder. I only had one scallion, so I compensated with Pensey’s Toasted Onion seasoning. Hmmm…I love these noodles. They really are quick to make, especially if you leave the tofu out. What’s Cooking Saturday Pizza. I asked Mac [...]

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I don’t typically have Bad Days so close together. Today has been rated as: Terrible. There was the small banging into things or dropping things or stabbing myself the thigh with a big lawn ornament hook*. The big thing was me falling while correcting a shelf that wasn’t placed on Ada’s wall correctly. Besides cracking [...]

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I had a pork top loin roast to cook, one that I picked up on sale. It is lean, hence dry when overcooked. I decided to slow cook it, shred it apart (which is easy when cooked all day in the slow cooker), then let it warm another hour soaked in Jack Stack BBQ sauce. [...]

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All the StuDayTM activities are over. I did score some goodies, which is never required and always really appreciated. I now have two Moosewood cookbooks, so I should be set on many more vegetarian meal options. I should smell wonderful with my new bath products. Mac surprised me with a bigger gift, and the kids [...]

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Today is another 24th Annual StuDay*! Activities today include getting the kids ready to take Ada to school, which is always a Christmas Story Event when it comes to getting snow pants and boots on Jay. Then I made Jay and I breakfast, a shiitake mushroom omelet w/ bacon. Then I sorted through kids shoes [...]

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I just got all the kids presents that I intend to get today from the comfort of my recliner. I picked out the small giftss: a glass pitcher with a lid their size so they can pour their own juice, some leather work gloves for Ada to wear when she helps bring in wood, some [...]

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Jay’s Christmas card photo. I couldn’t shoot this just in the dark, but I couldn’t use the strobe, even at the lowest power drown out the lights. What I ended up using was the modeling light in my AB800. I don’t have seamless paper, hence the floor wrinkles.

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