Materfamilias Writes

What I Wore, and Learning to Love Our Stomachs . . .

What I Wore, and Learning to Love Our Stomachs . . .

Edited to add a Welcome! to those of you visiting fromImogen’s blog. I’m busy helping with my daughter’s wedding preparations today, then celebrating at the wedding on sunday, but I’ll be interested in reading your…

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Roses and Weddings and a Mother’s Rambling Thoughts

Roses and Weddings and a Mother’s Rambling Thoughts

Bride-to-be picked up the succulents for her floral/table arrangements yesterday and she and her future mom-in-law and a girlfriend, I think, put them together in the vases her guy had scrounged up. I wish I’d…

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Entertaining Recipes — Food, Family, Good Times . . .

Entertaining Recipes — Food, Family, Good Times . . .

I’m very lucky to have a secret weapon in the entertaining department — came in handy when we had the houseguests this week. And what’s in that arsenal? Why, Pater makes a mean paella, and…

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Les Amies et Blogging . . .

Les Amies et Blogging . . .

I’m not sure why, when I saw this dress in an atelier window(edited to add, for clarity: in Paris), it reminded me of Miss Cavendish, but it did. I think she must once have posted about…

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London Windows, a Puzzle or Two . . .

London Windows, a Puzzle or Two . . .

Thanks for all the sympathetic and reassuring comments on yesterday’s post. We have been having a lovely time getting to know my soon-to-be son-in-law’s parents. As it turns out, they took Wednesday’s events in stride,…

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