Risotto, spring and graduating a kid
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Risotto, spring and graduating a kid

My friend Jes taught me to make risotto 17 years ago in her family’s little cabin in Wisconsin. We had traveled there with our friend Tabitha and our 3 babies for a girls weekend (plus infant plus-ones), and Jes had planned dinner, but then needed to nurse her daughter – and so she gave me…

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Bringing hygge to your homeschool

For many years, winter and I were not friends. I would get terrible winter blues and struggled with the cold. It made me cranky. Our windy old Victorian was so architecturally interesting and so, so terribly drafty and miserable. It was built in 1905, and remodeled many times. The last time, right before we bought it,…