marshmallow mission

Posted on March 3, 2011 by serahrose| 3 Comments

i’m on a mission.

a mission to fulfill my dreams of eating marshmallows atop my hot cocoa.

i will find me a recipe.

here’s the challenge:

no soy

no gelatin

no eggs

no vanilla

no ‘natural flavors’

no corn syrup

go forth and conquer!

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Upgrade: Thank you for your patience

Posted on February 24, 2011 by serahrose| Leave a comment

Thank you for your patience as I upgrade this site and reconfigure all the plugins.

Most of the content will still be accessible over the next 24 hours, it might just not look as pretty.

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making love with fabric

Posted on February 23, 2011 by serahrose| Leave a comment

My heart can get full sometimes.

It can complicate life.

My heart bursts with the hurts and the joys of others.  And then it gets all mixed up, mashed, and bubbly as i wonder what i can do to alleviate hurts i have no control over, or share in joys that are not mine…or wish for joys that are not mine…

And I find myself dreaming of the swaying of skirts, the swish of ribbons, and the feel of buttons in my hands.  I pull out my scissors, paw through boxes of fabric, and lay out grand plans for healing my heart through my hands.

In my mind, new babies are clothed in soft cotton kimono wraps, my girlfriends sashay in skirts that match their darling daughters, my child’s dollies and puppies are adorned with new accessories, i am forced to buy new shoes just to match the perfect little spring dress i whipped up, and my child snuggles up under her new quilt made just for her.

In reality, my projects take far longer because although the dreams are there, the time is not.

But I know, if I have the time to stitch every day, my heart would be too busy making love with fabric to notice it hurt at all.

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Endless Snow matched only by Endless Fevers

Posted on February 6, 2011 by serahrose| Leave a comment

Do-Bug’s bouts with illness are usually relatively infrequent compared with the average four year old.

But this winter, like the compounded snow storms, has been fraught with extended bouts of fever-filled colds.

Between the two, I don’t think she’s has a full week of school since the beginning of December.

We are both stir-crazy.  And I’ve given up thinking I’ll ever catch up with work.

Do-Bug Bundled Up in Bed

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read this; you’ll feel better

Posted on January 20, 2011 by serahrose| Leave a comment

Embarrassments are, um, embarrassing.  Here, read mine and then you’ll feel better about yours.

  1. We’ve been cooped up in the house with an ugly fever since Sunday.  Yesterday, I walked in the door after being outside for the first time in days and realized that my house smells like…farts.
  2. Today, Do-bug was well enough to go back to school.  Yay!  Dada drove her in.  And then I got a call, “Um…is there school today?  There doesn’t really seem to be anyone there.”  So I checked the calendar where it says in bold letters, NO SCHOOL.  Her teacher came out at the same time to witness our mortification.  And then I realized that this is what it meant on my calendar for last week when I had a note written to myself to sign Do-bug up for Discovery Care.

Feel better?

Good; thought you would.

I’m going to go light a candle.

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