I needed a “baby fix” . . .

Last week I told the hub’s sister, “E” to tell their neice “S” if she ever needed someone to baby-sit 5-month old “Baby A” that I would be more than willing. I just miss cuddling babies in my arms and smelling the “sweetness” of the baby powder/lotion on them. Well, S called last [...]

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The “perfect” chocolate chip cookie recipe . . .

has to be the one that I had used a couple of weeks ago when I was in “search” for that “perfect” recipe. Tuesday night I made the batter/dough (as mentioned in my earlier blog) using another recipe that I found on the web and refrigerated it overnight. Come Wednesday morning, (yes at [...]

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Three Random Blurbs . . .

One: LaBurrita finally added something new to their menu . . . their version of the taco bowl salad they call “the Baja.” Bril and I ordered it for lunch today. This taco salad has grilled chicken, slices of avocado, tomatoes, olives and black beans on top of a huge mound of greens. Of [...]

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The end of another weekend . . .

After AC’s volleyball game we headed straight home because the hubs wanted to watch the football play-offs. . . while the hubs scurried to get inside the house, I whipped out my camera and (yes) started taking more pix. This time I only took a few of the “things” found in front of [...]

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Getting ready for the grad pix . . .

After their exam, I took AC to get her hair cut (Jack and Andie came with us as we had driven together that morning). On Monday, AC’s class will be taking their grad pix so she had to get her hair cut. I’m taking the morning of that Monday off to help AC [...]

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How do you “kill” 4.5 hours . . .

The gurls (AC, Leah & Andie) had to take their exam from 8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., so we (the moms) had plenty of free time to “kill”. RA’s son, J also had to take the same exam so she decided to hang out with us. So what did we do?
1) We had breakfast at [...]

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Brrrr….

For the past couple of weeks, we have been hit with these bitter “cold spells” so every morning when I go to drop JP off at the bus stop (enroute to his school), I almost always have to scrape the windshield or hose down the windshield depending on how “frozen” the ice is.  The temperature [...]

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Oh where, oh where is Zeus?

Can you find Zeus? My cousin KitKat sent me this picture of Zeus. She said they were looking for him – – so where did they find Zeus? They found Zeus sound asleep inside J’s bedroom . . . inside her play tent to be exact cuddled up with all of [...]

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AC, the author . . .

This morning we took BART to the city for AC’s and her class’ book signing that was held at one of the bookstores in San Francisco. When AC was in the 6th grade, each student (including AC of course) wrote a story. Two years later, their stories of being published finally came to [...]

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The tradition has been broken . . .

Saturday night I attended AC’s school’s annual crab-feed. The hubs and I have been going for the past 12 years (since JP first started kindergarten) and each time, I have been “smuggling” in the margaritas and cosmos in those OJ carton containers. (So JG…if you’re reading this, yes I broke my tradition of [...]

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