Posted in Cleo on Apr 29th, 2009
With all due respect to my husband, daughter, mother and beyond, my favorite family member is the lowliest in our pack. Cleo is simple, and I mean simple, as in, she could be permanent cover girl for Really Real Simple. Cleo is three, but never had terrible twos. She is happy to see everyone, especially [...]
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Posted in butter, Cleo on Jan 26th, 2009
In case you were wondering, she is still at it. Cleo is either reaching for butter, or just snagged a piece of pastrami. With that supernatural tongue, who can tell?
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Posted in Cleo on Jan 19th, 2009
Yeesh! How life intervenes. I’ll be back tomorrow with something tasty, but for now, please enjoy the quickest, cutest flashback I could find. From April 17, 2008, it’s my favorite kalamata-nosed girl in all her coyote glory. ————- Poor Cleo. When we moved, she thought she was leaving fire trucks and sirens behind. We knew [...]
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Posted in Cleo, Lawrence, winter on Jan 17th, 2009
So cold. It’s a blinding white glimpse of the obvious to say it’s cold, but there it is. Cold never used to trouble me – and in fact I still adore winter, and before that fall, and rank Kansas summer heat just above root canal. But the fact remains that I am freezing. While walking [...]
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Posted in Cleo, kitchen on Dec 4th, 2008
We spent much of 2007 making house-building plans, and I think it’s fair to say that no room, not by a long shot, received as much design (and re-design) attention as the kitchen. Given that I spend a high percentage of life leaning over a baking board, and as I’m on the wee stumpy side, [...]
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