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The cosmetic game has really changed since I was a kid. My daughter talks about makeup using words like highlight, bronzer and contour

I guess if I had to write my own cookbook dedication it would be more like: A busy woman who prepares a meal most days (possibly more on the weekends) for my family, because they just may starve to death otherwise. Maybe my grandmother didn’t enjoy cooking for her four children and husband either. What strikes me now at age 46 is that when I came into her life at ten months old, my grandmother was only a few years older than I am now. She smiled and told me that she wasn’t exactly sure of how she knew me, but that she knew that she had loved me, for a very long time.

For some reason I always get a little blue around my birthday. Which is weird because I absolutely LOVE the actual day

He was so thrilled to be done with outside Christmas that when I asked him to drag the twelve-foot tree in from the garage so that I alone could decorate it, he happily obliged. At my final request on his Christmas 2018 Honey Do List to get the lights burning again, he agreed. Imagine my shock though when I returned later to NOT only NOT see the tree glowing with all of its glory, but instead to see NO TREE AT ALL. He agreed that maybe 27 days before Christmas was not the time to banish a 75% lit, twelve ft tree.