“This family dinner thing is killing me!” — Sawyer, as we sat down to eat at 7:50 pm on Sunday (he’d declared the bacon an appetizer about 7) And so month two of feeding my family, feeding Africa, feeding my soul begins. It has been a wonderful — and busy — month. I can’t imagine [...]
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Our first African feast: Thanksgiving & Zimbabwe
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, tagged Africa, family dinner, pie, Thanksgiving, vegetarian, Zimbabwe on November 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“Don’t forget where you come from baby, ’cause there’s truth in it.” — Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls (Ghost of the Gang) Last night, the evening after Thanksgiving, I was sitting at The Nutcracker with a few dear friends, explaining why it is my favorite ballet. The first time I saw it, I was [...]
Country 4: Zimbabwe
Posted in Africa, tagged Kubatsirana Primary School, Mugabe, orphans, Zimbabwe, ZOE on November 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.” — Zimbabwean proverb I am so looking forward to tomorrow’s Thanksgiving feast with my sister, family, and my friends from Zimbabwe. I say “friends” although I do not know my friend Prosper’s wife and children very well at all — yet. I’ve known Prosper for [...]
Week four
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, tagged dinner, football, Thanksgiving, tzatziki, Zimbabwe on November 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.” ~ Alistair Cooke Love cranberry sauce. Why is it we only have it once a year? I saw it at Whole Foods [...]
Saturday night
Posted in dinner, family dinner, tagged pie, Thanksgiving on November 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“I’m thankful for Coco, Reggie, Zoe and pie.” — Sawyer on a Sunday School Thanksgiving project years ago, mentioning all of our animals — and pie — but none of us. We were supposed to host our book club dinner tonight, but I wrecked my back moving a coffee table on Monday. Being over 40 [...]
I could get used to this
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged baseball, family, family dinner, football, rock climbing, sports, Team Texas on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” — Thomas Jefferson What a wonderful week it has been. We’ve had an unprecedented four days without organized sports. Afternoon after afternoon of little to do but make a fire in the living [...]
Country 3: Somalia
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, black hawk down, food, malnutrition on November 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“We will all starve.” — Sheik Ali Gab on what will happen if the U.S. continues to delay aid to Somalia because of fears that aid is assisting terrorists What I knew about Somalia before today was this: Pirates are having a field day off its coast, and the U.S. had a failed mission there [...]
Week three
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged book club, co-op, dallas morning news, organic, rock climbing on November 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“I don’t like beets. I don’t like feta. But I like them together.” — Noah at the dinner table Sunday night Every other week, we get a deluge of fruits and veggies from our organic co-op. This is one such week. For $50, we got a bucket full of organic stuff Saturday morning. There’s always [...]
Just lunch
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged 7th grade, homework, lunch on November 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.” — Dr. Seuss And a lunch is a lunch no, matter how chaotic. Seemed like we had so little on our plates today. Just three things on the agenda: Sawyer’s playoff football game, drop Noah off at a team building/sleepover party, head to our niece’s 16th birthday. [...]
Simple comfort
Posted in dinner, family dinner, tagged church, dinner, family dinner, soup on November 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
“Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living. For soup can do more to lift the spirits and stimulate the appetite than any other one dish.” — Louis P. DeGouy Soup. It is one of my favorite meals. I love the simplicity of the word, of the ingredients in a bowl with [...]
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