I am sitting in the living room with Ray, daughter Liz, Jared, our Texas friend and our Utah relatives, nephew Jim and his wife, Karri. JIm’s dad has already gone to bed and so have Jim and Karri’s kids, Eli and Sophie. We are waiting up to greet my Texas niece, Leslie, and her friend,…
Tag: Thanksgiving
Final Press Before Celebrations
This will be a short post. I am dragging my rear-end this evening for good reason: the homeless breakfast this morning and then a day filled with students. I am finishing up with all of my students by Monday at noon, so I have more coming tomorrow morning and early afternoon and one at 9…
Thanksgiving and A Wedding: Coming Together
I have been on an organizational binge today in reference to Thanksgiving and wedding planning. I sat down this morning and devoted quite a lot of time to thinking of every detail related to these two events. I put my lists in different documents with notes to myself about questions that needed to be answered,…
An Autumn Wedding
We are preparing for a wedding over in these parts. Sarah and Gregorio, who had a civil ceremony in the summer, are having their official church wedding on November 30th at St. Thomas the Apostle, Hollywood. This is a blessed event, of course, which is punctuated by a private Baptism for Luna an hour before…
A Busy November
This morning Ray and I have been setting our calendar for through the first of the year. We usually do this so we can plan when we’ll go to Texas and to Ojai so that we can make sure we stay on top of our projects there, but this time it is a bit more…
A Delicious Holiday Cookie Recipe
Today we made honey-sweetened orange cookies. They are cake-like with a cream cheese frosting. I highly recommend them. We made one batch and they were gone almost as soon as they came out of the oven. We have a request to make a double batch tomorrow. Of course, we used fresh oranges from our orange…
Last Minute Work While Awaiting Our Guests
I am sitting with my student, Madison, and we are both having trouble writing today. It is, after all, the day before Thanksgiving and there are so many more interesting pursuits that we both could be doing. Still, we only have one hour together today before the celebration begins so I’m using this time to…
College Essay Deadlines Loom
It’s college essay time again and I am flooded with students who are applying to schools with a November 30th deadline. We are scrambling to beat the clock for the University of California schools, mainly, but also early admission requirements to other colleges around the country, such as University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Tulane,…
20 Minutes a Day 