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From Spaghetti Sauce to Lasagna to 28 Quarts of Sauce
I have always enjoyed cooking and planning parties, so being asked to cater a friends wedding was a treat. Cooking for 70-100 is something I have done so frequently that I’m very comfortable with it but the latest count for this wedding reception is 260. Oh, dear. 🙂 Heather wanted to have Italian, and when I first heard that I thought “Oh, that will be easy, no problem.” What I had not counted on was the fact that the reception hall has only 1 oven. Just how was I going to juggle cooking that many lasagnas in one oven? Fortunately, that has all been worked out – we have a friend that owns…
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4,000 Miles, 76 Hours of Driving & a Look at the Tornado in Joplin, MO
We are home as of Tuesday driving a total of 4,000 miles round trip and 76 hours of driving. We had a wonderful time while in Ohio; it just went too quickly. I took a lot of pictures -one of the joys of owning a digital is you don’t have to worry about rolls of film and the cost of development. Also, my photos are what helps me remember things I would normally forget. I love my camera! There were 15 of us who journeyed to Ohio for the youth camp. Everyone was great travellers. No needing to go to the bathroom every 30 minutes, complaining because they were hungry or…
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Family Life Updates 6/13 – 6/19/11
Zachary is finally on the mend! On Monday we took him to the doctor after he’d been running a fever for a week and having a cough that sounded like bronchitis. The doctor’s dianosis was that he had either acute bronchitis or pneumonia and then he prescribed some antibiotics. Zachary has finally started to eat. He lost 17 pounds altogether and I’m sure this contributed to the next challenge he started experiencing – dehydration. His muscles in every part of his body started to cramp up on him and cause him quite a bit of discomfort. We started giving him salt and water and also found a recipe online for a healthy…
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A Book Lovers Tea Party for Young Ladies
The tea party club my daughter started almost 2 years ago with her Anne of Green Gables Tea Party (read about it here and here) is still continuing with this months tea party being hosted by Sophia, Meghan & Abigail. The tea party is for older girls but if the siblings have younger sisters, we welcome them, too. The theme was a “Ladies Book Society Tea Party”. What a fun theme that was! Audrey decided to go as Pigling Bland, the character Beatrix Potter writes about in The Tale of Piglind Bland. A few weeks prior to the tea party, Audrey wanted to play Pigling Bland with Justus so she got…
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A Special Evening – 60 Years of Marriage
Our guests are all gone now and we’re just getting the house back in order, laundry under control and some sleep, too! But this past weekend we got to be part of a special evening – my sister’s mother and father-in-law were celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. I was elected to make the Tomato Caprese Salad. Never having made one, it took me several tries and many questions to finally figure out how it’s done. In this picture I am not doing it correctly, but I’m blissfully unaware of it at the moment. 🙂 There was flower arranging being done by the expert family floral designer… antipasto platters being prepared… jars being filled with…
