Split pea soup is wonderful. Yellow peas? Do you make doughballs (dumplings) in it?

Nothing wrong with chicken and mushroom on rice! Though you’re getting pretty fancy with those portobellos. (Did those even exist in 1977?)

No cooking this weekend since I’m at work. But I left the family with enough lasagne for two meals. And earlier last week I made Italian wedding soup with turkey meatballs and chard from my garden. I only planted the chard cause our neighbours gave the rainbow chard seeds the kids. And I really have no idea what…

The praline pecans on the pumpkin pie sound delicious! And what delicious thing is apple crumble pie? Pastry bottom with crumble toppling?

Happy Thanksgiving to all. (Ours has to be in October. By November at this latitude it gets harder to muster much gratitude.)

This is a good idea, and can be pretty organic in the context of a meeting.

In 2008 I was asked in a job interview (it was internal, I was coming back from maternity leave and was interviewing with a different section of the company where a job I wanted had come open): “As a woman with small children, what’s your attendance going to be like?”

Thank-you.

Thank-you.

She is a cutie! What a great smile.

I don’t know, since it’s so small a school it’s never come up. I’m glad they were together in the beginning, but I can see why the teachers would take the opportunity now to split them up. They have been known to take some “sibling liberties” with each other.

Good lord!

Best wishes for a smooth and quick and thorough recovery.

Any twins out there? I dropped the kidlings off for first day of school on Tuesday and was shocked to find out that our twins were in different grade 4 classes. It’s never been a question before because there’s ever only been one class per grade. I don’t know if twin #2 even noticed, but twin#1's face just crumpled up…

Beautiful kitty.

I’m still knitting a scarf. I want to finish it before I start the hats I promised my boys. But my eldest kidling won red ribbons at a local country fair for her photograph and sculpture:

I don't recall meeting you recently...

Hmmm. “Tom and I in the car going to...”

Well said. I used to think nurture was more important (before I had kids). Now with three of them half way done, I think nature has WAY more influence. Yes, you can abuse and damage a child. But within the range of decent human parent behaviour, I think kids are pretty much fully formed when they’re born, and all we…

To maintain my parenting sanity I’ve started applying what I call the “Don’t be so foolish” test.