Archive for May, 2010
Library card of the week
Friday, May 28th, 2010On the way to Friday
Thursday, May 27th, 2010Two things have dominated the week. Emerson finished kindergarten with total aplomb and Liam has been sick puking his guts out. It’s really quite a combination. My house is wrecked, and all scheduling and planning have been thrown out the window. This week I have spent time in the emergency room, doctor’s office and pharmacy with Liam and tie-dying t-shirts and hunting for Silly Bandz with Emerson.
Also, I’ve been walking around for the last couple of days with blue dye-stained fingertips because I didn’t wear gloves during the tie-dying process. So on top of everything else, I look like I tried to rob a bank.
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| good luck Liam | last day of kindergarten |
Postscript: This picture was taken a few short hours before my week went south.
Thumbs up!
Monday, May 17th, 2010There were – right smack in the middle of the day – a few perfect hours. Yesterday was Emerson’s ballet recital, and let me tell you, it doesn’t get much better than watching my daughter dance followed by big bowls of ice cream at the Sugar Bowl. Why didn’t someone tell me I was going to need to bring tissues?
Chicken fried steak
Monday, May 10th, 2010For Mother’s Day I ate chicken fried steak and cherry pie al a mode at the Beeline Café in Payson, Arizona.
My family has been stopping at the Beeline forever. Whenever we made the drive from Winslow to Phoenix, the Beeline was our preferred place to stop for lunch.
The Beeline is an old cowboy diner. There’s one particularly mean waitress who sasses everyone and lots of old-timers and weak coffee and I absolutely love it.
I always ordered the chicken fried steak, as did my dad, my mom and my grandma. All four with salad, all four salads with ranch dressing. My little brother, inexplicably, always ordered the French Dip sandwich.
One time we overheard two women in the booth behind us. One of them said to the other, “Have you ever felt of a dead person”? “Cold as clay, heat leaves the body as soon as they’re gone”.
We almost lost it in our booth, having to look away from each other to keep from laughing.
