Two tasty pork recipes
First you massage the pork loin with a sugar-and-spice rub, then you sear the meat in a skillet until the whole outside is browned and crispy.
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Swatches of Lancaster
One of the things I like about it is that it has great barns and cool houses, very old, like this home with the massive wood beams.
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February Goals – more reports and confessions
I had a lovely little idea that February would be the perfect month to focus on intimacy, and then I inherited a newborn baby.
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Giving Up People Pleasing
At first, I wondered how to measure this goal. Then I started keeping a list of tiny successes, and it gave me exactly what I was going for.
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How I Go To Bed
I check on the children, sleeping in their beds. I pull back my covers and remember something I forgot downstairs, so I go do that, too.
Alphabet prayers
I’ve been reading the book of Lamentations. It’s so beautiful that I tried writing an English prayer in the same structure, just for fun.
Sunday morning playlist
Here is a list of the songs that keep me going these days, from widely diverse styles. You don’t have to like them.
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This privilege: Baby days
She is the cutest thing we’ve ever seen, and we treasure the days and all the times until she can transition to a birth family member.
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January Goals – my reports and confessions
I learned that what I eat as habit, or in the company of other people, I easily forget to monitor. But also that when I cut in one area…
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Things That Work and Things that Don’t
Some days my life flows with a serendipity that astonishes me. Other days, not so much. Where will I find a box of the right size?
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