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...
Three very fun days recently flew by with my Cousin Suzi and her friend, Kelley. I was quite impressed when I heard more about their back story as teachers and all the many trips they hosted for young students over the years. They've been chaperones for groups of 40 children (middle school age) to places like: Australia (4x), Costa Rica, Paris & Normandy, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Rome, Italy, South America, etc. Kelley, me, and Suzi . . . They told me lots of stories from their many years of adventures and I hung on every word. For the first several years, they worked with People to People, a company that featured opportunities to travel and to be an ambassador in other countries around the world. There was a real sense of building relationships during that time, something that was considered very important after the Cold War . People to People really sought to build a few bridges between countries where things were still a little tense (and timid). Suzi and...
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