Back to my poor neglected blog! Mumpy: no more strokes, but through the process it turned out that she had dementia.  Also, eventually we w...

  The good news is that she is going to be fine, but my mom, Mumpy, had a small stroke and we spent most of last week in the hospital. No pe...

  She got the vaccine out in North Dakota, and headed back to see all of us as soon as she was immune.   Because of the pandemic, it's b...

  I am over the moon happy! After more than a decade, my sister was able to canonically establish her order!! She's the one on the lef...

  Veterans Day is pretty special to us, partly because the Emperor and I are both children of veterans. In the Emperor's case, his dad f...

  Relaxing Together Wheeee!  Today it's been one year since my parent's came to live with us! Other than some major health scares ar...

 

     A dinner that we occasionally have is Pepperoni Pizza Monkey Bread .  We use a sheet pan instead of a Bundt pan because we need to make...

  This is my sister holding the llama pinata I sent her.  You can tell she thinks it's hysterically funny! Almost as funny as I thought ...

 For my niece, Anja, and my new nephew, John, who married yesterday in the middle of a pandemic.  May you ever rejoice in each other and in ...

We are four months into our lock down/quarantine.  At three months, I was surprised it had been so long.  At four months, I am surprised i...

 Six inches of concrete over the course of 30 feet of sidewalk adds up to a lot of concrete. Also, it turns out that getting rid of conc...

 With the garden in full bloom, it was an easy year to make bouquets to decorate the graves! My dad has not been doing well.  No Covid p...

 Last week was huge!  I turned 50, my mom turned 75, and Mxyl graduated college! My sweet sister had planned out a fancy tea party the...