Teddy Guts
This past Thursday was my turn to host the Thursday gaggle-get-together with my desert girlfriends. And by “my turn” I mean that I jumped at the chance to host, insisting that this week be at my house....
View ArticleAnd Then There Was Blood
The Great Christmas Cookie Exchange was a success! I barely got to eat my lunch (Lola gave me a play-by-play on my progress every time she walked into the kitchen), but I more than made up for it with...
View ArticleChristmas Is Ruined version 2011
Aaack! It’s only 5 days until Christmas! What am I going to do? The stores are going to be … oh wait… never mind. I’ll just go shopping like it’s any other Saturday because, in the desert, it is any...
View ArticlePotentially Worst Christmas EVER
The Mister was supposed to walk through our door sometime between 8:30 and 9:00 this morning. Obviously, by my title, he didn’t. He’s still in Cairo, because his red-eye flight was cancelled. The...
View ArticleChristmas Comedy Without The Disney
I feel like we are living out the hilarious script from one of those painful Holiday comedies. A family does all it can to find their way back together in time for the holidays. Laugh as, at every...
View ArticleThe Christmas Bird
Here is our very attractive English bird: Since it was such an ordeal getting the bird here, and I knew that there was no back-up, I was extremely nervous when I slid the turkey into the oven. Would I...
View ArticleThree Houses Three Stories
The last time I made gingerbread houses with Charlie and Lola, I swore to myself that I would go through the extra effort of making each of us our own houses. The stress of trying to decorate in...
View ArticleHappy 2012!
May this next year truly be one of peace, where we live for the betterment of the lives of others around us and believe the best in each other first. May everyone have at least one great meal per day,...
View ArticleSometimes The Neurons In My Brain Fire At The Right Time
That Girl (aka Santa Mama) lent me some funkadelic lights to use for my Christmas parties. When I opened them up, it seemed that they were in a very well-designed folding pattern. I immediately began...
View ArticleEid Mubarak!
Oh man, this post has been a long time coming. The cakes were actually completed and delivered a week ago, at the very beginning of Eid. After which, I immediately collapsed into an exhausted heap,...
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