Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Nov 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Hi, remember me? The other person who’s supposed to be writing blog posts? Well, I’m still here and I will try to actually write posts from now on. You have to admit I’ve had some really, really good excuses for not writing many blog posts over the past month or so. Having no Internet access [...]
Posted in Gabrielle on Nov 29th, 2005 3 Comments »
Okay, there is a fact about me that I have kept from most of you. I am a role-player. Yes, that’s right, I am one of those people who sit down with obscure books and then sit around with other people pretending to be people who aren’t real. It’s like make-believe, but for grownups. Think [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles on Nov 25th, 2005 No Comments »
“Food should made with love and lots of butter.” -A Swedish saying I think I just mutilated. Yesterday was Thanksgiving. My brother Jonathan came over and we all stood in the kitchen getting in each other’s way as we worked together to make Thanksgiving dinner. We probably spent more time in the kitchen cooking the [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles on Nov 22nd, 2005 1 Comment »
Have you ever thought about laughter? about what laughter is? You smile, open your mouth and exhale forcefully. A sound comes out that people find amusing though if you asked most people if you have a funny laugh they will likely say no. The answer really is yes, but your laugh is no funnier than [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
I have always had trouble making biscuits. I had no idea what I was doing wrong, but ever since I started making biscuits I was only able to turn out these hard, tasteless shells of what a true biscuit is like. Then, the other day, I had a breakthrough. I actually read my recipe and [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 22nd, 2005 1 Comment »
It is really loud around here. Justice will be crying about the horrible things we’re doing to him like changing his diaper. Noah will be crying because he just discovered the world doesn’t revolve around him. The two crys sort of wrap around each other and each makes the other louder. One of the older [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles on Nov 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Children are special. We seem to have lost that in our culture. We warehouse our children until the point we consider them humans, but by that point they don’t actually know us so we have angry teens and disgruntled parents. But children are special and we need to remember that. The Bible talks about children [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles on Nov 20th, 2005 No Comments »
I was recently talking to someone I don’t know that well for very long and I found myself having to say something once and then explain what I just said. I was a little puzzled, but the puzzlement didn’t last long because I have been becoming aware of the fact that I speak in shorthand. [...]
Posted in Raquel on Nov 19th, 2005 6 Comments »
I once described my mother to Gabrielle as being “Like me, only more so”. I suppose that’s really backwards–I’m like my mother, only somewhat less so–but I’ve been amused at the accuracy this description. A couple of days ago my father was trying to ask her how her headache was and she said, “It’s okay”. [...]
Posted in Raquel on Nov 19th, 2005 1 Comment »
For Adiel, and any other potential marshmallow (or even sticky puff) chefs in the readership, here is a marshmallow recipe. This has some quite helpful and detailed information on the making of marshmallows, however it is not the marshmallow recipe I used because it calls for corn syrup. This recipe does not call for corn [...]