Year: 2005

Okay I love these kids that I am looking after. After a busy weekend with lots of friends and fun things I said I wanted to do something just us three like we used to do on our days. I didn’t even have to pull anybody’s leg. Nick has been wanting to learn to knit his own beenie like all the cool snowboarders do (and he’s a skater snowboarder himself). So we decided that would be our project. We headed out to the greatest little yarn shop in Salem, Have You Any Wool. Nick got slightly…

Because it sure would be fun to get all dressed up. Lacey and I headed to Portland today to pick out her prom dress. I am staying at Nick and Lacey’s until Wednesday. Nick and Lacey are my all time favorite kids from my Summer Sitting Service I had many years ago. Every Wednesday we would have little adventures, make movies, swim, and play. It was so much fun. Now I come to Salem to stay with them whenever their parents go out of town for a while. They are 13.5 and just fifteen (and Lacey…

This is my favorite all time thing to make and eat. I am pretty sure I could live off of it: 2 onions7 strips baconlots of potatoes (I think I used a whole bag yesterday)1 can creamed corn1 can not creamed cornsaltpepperand I don’t think it is complete with out Johnny’s Cook bacon in little pieces: try not to eat all the bacon after you take it out of the pan. Cut up your onions really teeny tiny: Then to make it extra yummy you simmer the onions in the bacon fat in a big soup…