16 Tuesday Dec 2025
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16 Monday Dec 2024
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out for a lovely dinner a few days ago and came home with a box of delicious frozen treats…
there were five or six types of cookies and a few butter tarts, one of my favourites;-)…
what a delightful surprise…
now to eat some and share some too;-)…
08 Monday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, buddies, coffee, cookies, friends, gather, holidays, moments, pistachios, time, widow
had a great time with my buddies…
we usually meet every week, but over the holidays we didn’t gather, so I was very happy to see them today;-)…
had a fun time preparing the coffee, setting out pistachios and digging out some cookies to share…
we always have a good time when we gather…
excellent start to the new year…
26 Monday Jun 2023
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beach, big girl pants, blessed, bread, cookies, family, memories, moments, sandwich, snack, treat, village, Village Green Bakery, widow
Sunday morning we made sure to be up in good time to get to the Village Green Bakery at Victoria Beach…
they have the most delicious bread and yummy cookies…
you don’t want to be late or the good stuff might all be gone;-)…
we picked up a loaf of bread, a smile cookie, a coconut and oatmeal cookie, a double chocolate cookie, and two sausage rolls…
we sat in a lovely park and had a snack of some of the goodies and then checked out their beach…
home for a sandwich and then some reading and napping… couldn’t wait to take a picture of the whole loaf, lol…
12 Saturday Feb 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, charcuterie board, chocolate, cookies, delicious, flown, food, memories, moments, nest, not-for-profit, Oak Hammock Marsh, supper, treat, Valentine's Day, widow
I’ve always loved Valentine’s Day… from getting flowers from my beloved, to making heart shaped sugar cookies for the girls’ classrooms for years, to taking roses to my colleagues…
in later years, once the girls had flown the nest, we would have a special dinner… often steak and lobster…
this year I ordered a charcuterie board from Oak Hammock Marsh, one of our local not-for-profits, for my dinner tonight…
it was delivered to my door and looked festive…
there were cheeses, olives, crackers, cold cuts, fruit, nuts, herbs, even a bit of chocolate… and it came on a nice wooden board…
tonight I enjoyed half of it, and will finish it either tomorrow or Monday…
was thinking of my beloved as I enjoyed this treat…
01 Saturday Jan 2022
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Baileys, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, coal, cookies, dinner, family, first-foot, flowers, friends, lobster, memories, moments, movies, New Year's, purple, remembering, Rose Parade, steak, widow
had a lovely New Year’s day…
I watched the Rose Parade which was something we’ve done with my parents for years…
dear friends stopped by to first-foot me… and brought the usual coal, orange, cookies, alcohol, with a beautiful card… and a gorgeous bouquet of orchids and allium… my bouquet from last week is just on its last legs so the timing was perfect…
orchids are one of my favourites and allium was one of my beloved’s…
after that, I made a delicious steak and lobster meal for my lunch… it is usually the meal for New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day dinner…
I decided on lunch so the day would be easier… and to broil instead of barbecue as it was so cold out…
it turned out delicious and then I spent the day watching movies…
and carrying the flowers from room to room, lol…
05 Saturday Sep 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, cookies, ginger, ginger snaps, moments, widow
had some tea and ginger snaps this afternoon and thought of my beloved…
ginger snaps were one of his favourites… I’m pretty sure he would have liked these…
looks like a lot, but most were broken, lol… I am getting used to ginger in things now, although for years I stayed away from it…
13 Thursday Feb 2020
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a few days ago I dug out my sugar cookie recipe…
I’d had a conversation with a friend about how great my sugar cookies tasted… I’ve made thousands of them over the years, mainly when the girls were in school… I would produce cookies for their classrooms for each and every holiday that occurred…
she suggested I might like to make some for Valentine‘s Day;-)… and also volunteered to lend me a heart-shaped cookie cutter…
I thought I had one so didn’t take her up on the offer…
on Sunday I decided to make them and discovered that I did not have the appropriate cutter…
I went online, found a few different sized heart templates and made a cardboard heart-shaped template…
then I made the recipe and laughed throughout the whole process because it didn’t seem familiar at all…
it took a while as I used a knife to outline each one, but they came out pretty good…
I’d given away all the food colouring and sprinkles a while ago, thinking I wouldn’t need them…
the cookies look rather plain… but taste delicious…
then I had some fun packaging them up for a few gifts…
and enjoyed some with my kids and BS buddies;-)…
17 Sunday Mar 2019
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. soup, big girl pants, celebrations, cookies, green, green eggs and ham, holidays, shamrock, smoothie, St. Patrick's Day, widow, zucchini
I have always celebrated every event that came along: Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Canada Day and St. Patrick’s Day…
when the girls were little, I’d make cookies for them to take to school… made a lot of cookies over the years…
for the last while I haven’t felt quite as enthusiastic about these special days…
maybe I’ve made my last cookie, lol…
today I had a green smoothie, even though I usually make eggs on the weekends…
for lunch I had zucchini-basil soup with the cutest bunny-shaped cheese pretzel from La Belle Baguette…
I also had fun taking some photos of the shamrocks growing in the Japanese Maple pot…
for supper, made green eggs and ham;-)…
came out very tasty;-)…
no fancy decorations, no cookies… just green food all day long…
hope your St. Patrick’s Day was just what you hoped for;-)…
23 Wednesday Jan 2019
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big girl pants, cookies, dear friend, homemade, memories, shortbread, Walker’s, widow
tonight I had two Walker’s shortbread cookies for a treat with a cup of tea…
I do love shortbread and these are my favourite go-to when I don’t have any homemade ones available…
they remind me of a dear friend who loves them too…
I always make sure to have some in the house whenever I know she’s coming by…
when I eat one I think about all the fun times we have had together…
memories are such amazing things, aren’t they…
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