Perspective

"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes, and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute."

-G.K. Chesterton, in What's Wrong with the World

Zucchini!

This is a zucchini "apple" crisp recipe that I made recently. :) This wasn't the recipe I used last year (couldn' t find it), and this one is slightly more "involved", but still a great recipe. One caveat- if you are using large zucchini, you may want to add one more step, and scrape out the seeds before slicing... since they are the only way anyone could know they're not eating apple crisp! ;-)

Somewhere in my recipes I also have a zucchini chocolate chip cookie recipe I'll post in the next few weeks. I'm sure I'll be making both those recipes, as well as the standard zucchini bread and muffins, a lot this summer, since we have a few zucchini plants out in the garden, and so far they're doing well.

Mother and children...

(Image from The Graphics Fairy, here)

Thinking about having this printed this out and framing it for the nursery... not sure how best to get frame-able quality though... maybe take it in to the photo center & have it printed?

What size shoe do YOU wear?

Do you wear a size 6 shoe? I wish I did! I think these shoes look really cute, but unfortunately shopping online clearance (these are at J.C. Penney's) does have its drawbacks... you can't always get what you want (in your size)... I'll keep looking. :-)