Each year in our city a holiday parade takes place the Friday before Thanksgiving. It is a lengthy parade with many floats, marching bands and a lot of dance teams. I am not sure why the mostly Christmas parade happens the Friday before Thanksgiving, but who am I to have…

I’ve been experimenting a bit with pumpkin pie this month, which means we’ve been enjoying eating a lot of pumpkin pie. I’m not great at making pie crust, so pies are sometimes an intimidating baking project. In the past I’ve made pies with a pressed crust, and they were good.…

We were blessed with so many apples this fall, and I’ve been loving applesauce. My husband bought a new knife (with a purple handle!) that has proven to be the perfect knife for cutting hundreds and hundreds of apples. It’s also a great season for pears! A perfectly ripe pear…

Putting a warm rice bag under my coat makes me feel so cozy while I’m sitting in the car waiting for the resident oboist at her Wednesday afternoon lesson. I learned that I do not know how to successfully navigate music stand extenders after last Wednesday’s violin/viola/harp recital when I…