This blog gives me a space to record my adventures, my successes and failures, my thoughts, and all things pertaining to my family and my extended family.
Last Saturday morning began nice and slow after seeing Lionel Richie in concert. We had arrived back at our hotel around midnight the night before, so it was nice to roll out of bed at a sloth's pace once we finally did wake up. Scott and I didn't have to be anywhere until 11:45 a.m. We walked to Bill's Greenwich Restaurant just around the corner and had a lovely breakfast. I ordered the poached eggs on sourdough toast, with hollandaise sauce. Sides included mushrooms, grilled halloumi cheese, country potatoes, diced avocado, mushrooms, and beans. Microgreens are draped across the top of a tiny little metal pitcher with the beans inside. I also ordered some smoked salmon on the side because I'm trying really hard to add more protein into my diet each day. Scott ordered a big breakfast sandwich that looked like a hamburger. He was quite happy. After our tummies were very full and happy, we walked back around the corner to visit the Greenwich Market. We passed by the St. ...
First off, my time of quietly hiding in the background is over, I'm sad to say. It was a wonderful month. RIP The young single soldiers figured out that I can make food that is a little better than something out of a box or the stuff that shows up all too frequently in their chow hall line . . . At our Ward BBQ on Tuesday evening, they were very skilled (Morgan, mostly) in asking all the right questions in rapid succession so that I found myself inviting them over for dinner on Friday night. And then it turned into, "Can we invite the elders?" "Can the sister missionaries come, too?" "And how about Elder and Sister Sim?" (the senior missionary couple serving here now) So . . . Friday night, we ended up hosting 9 guests + Scott and me = 11!! We did purposely buy a dining table from IKEA that could extend and seat lots of guests, so I'm glad the seating arrangement all worked out. We extended the table a little further by setting up my sewing table d...
I stayed behind for an extra week instead of flying back to Italy with Scott so that I could attend my Grandma Lillian's Celebration of Life up in Portland first. I'm so glad I did! Seeing the world from several thousand feet up never gets old. The Columbia River coming into Portland . . . I drove myself over to Amber's house in my 2025 Toyota Rav 4 rental car. It was past 9:00 p.m. so it was dark and the city looked so magical as I drove across bridges and past skyscrapers. Even though it was late when I arrived, at least it was a Friday night so the girls didn't get in trouble when they snuck out of bed to give me a giant hug. Abby announced that she would be providing all of my meals during the weekend, and then she showed me a handwritten menu that she made just for me!! You can click on the photo below to see all the adorable options she created. Before I tucked myself into bed, I let Abby know that I would absolutely love to have some avocado toast the followin...
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