Tag: Holidays | Christmas
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the morning after
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the morning after -
cooking: christmas tamales
for the first time in 38 years, there was something served in my house for christmas other than turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, squash, green beans, boiled onions, and cranberry sauce.this year we went latin american, with hatch green chile tamales, two types of black beans, queso fresco, and white rice. beans and rice were pretty basic, but making the tamales was a bit of a challenge…

















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for the first time for either kid, while we were eating dinner in the zoo’s snack bar, he just walked right out the front door — looking for mommy, who had taken sparklet to the bathroom about five minute earlier.
fortunately, the dad of a family who was sitting near the door saw him wander out and assumed that something wasn’t quite right.
but it’s officially the end of the innocence for the parker family.