Happy Summer! The twins just turned 7 1/2!! They are out of school, all about camps (making me a taxi driver), and I just finished my latest spring/summer work
project, so it’s back to the book research for me (and summer travel planning,
next up: England!), managing our master bath reno (finally!), and solo parenting while S travels for work. Genealogy is so fascinating, it even makes inanimate
objects more interesting.
Speaking of salad dressing, Marielle was pretty proud of
herself for coming up with her own “signature” mixture of ketchup and ranch for dipping some time ago. We should sell this stuff, she
said. Turns out Heinz just started marketing something in the last two months
they call “Kranch” (as someone who used to name consumer products, that might
be one of the worst). After we send them a cease and desist (j/k), ours will be
called Ranch Up. Do you think we watch too much Shark Tank? 😉
Pain du chocolat from our local farmers’ market bakery
I first fell in love with this china pattern, Nantucket Basket by
Wedgwood (and the Island too of course), over 20 years ago when I babysat for
years for a family outside Boston who used it as their everyday dishes (and in
a house full of babies, three in less than three years, now all through
Stanford, apparently carefree fortunes are made in salad dressing), so I bought
a bunch when I found it a few years ago on clearance at HomeGoods (score!). Now
come to find out that not only am I related to the Wedgwoods (via Charles
Darwin, my 8th Cousin, both he and his wife Emma were grandchildren of founder
Josiah Wedgwood) but I’m also related to one of the original founding families
of Nantucket, the Swains. OMG! (which for the purposes of my book references stands
for old money gone)
