This is a nice quick non-fiction read that includes the stories and recipes of four generations and how each of those generations suffered through, survived and even enjoyed/made the most of the ups and downs of going through hard times including world wars, the Depression, being a single parent and the recession.
Archive for July 5th 2010
Me and the familia getting some birthday pie. (I’m not a cake kind of girl.)
I got this for Christmas two years ago and I decided it was time to put it together. It seems to take forever for it to get dark on the 4th of July, so I had the boys help me put it together to help pass the time. I think we did a pretty good job. Now I just need to get some wood so we can actually use it.
I took the boys to see The Karate Kid today. Liam said it was the best movie he has ever seen. It was a good movie. They took a lot of things from the original and tweaked them a bit, so the movie was familiar, but not the same. Colm learned the word “ass” from this movie. Jayden Smith says it a few times in the movie and Jackie Chan reprimands him. Colm wanted to know what it meant and I told him it’s a word we don’t use. Colm assumed I meant it’s a Chinese word since it’s a word we don’t use and the movie takes place in China. I just left it at that. 🙂
I took the boys to a part of the city today called Multnomah Village. It has a lot of locally owned shops, including a toy store, an ice cream/candy store and a book store.