A Mom's Year

Creating a comfortable life one moment at a time

Staying in Character

Lexie’s in the Winter One Acts playing now at Bainbridge High School. It’s a really cool show, with ten original plays written, directed, and performed by students. With musical acts in between.

I love this story about what happened during tech week rehearsals: Lexie plays a police officer who wears several different pairs of sunglasses. It’s part of the schtick. She kept dropping one pair and, finally, without breaking character, she just stuck them on over the sunglasses she was already wearing. It was funny and everyone laughed. She took what could’ve been an awkward situation and made it work for her.

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Seattle / Watson Kennedy and Capitol Hill

Lexie’s doing one of those programs where students take college classes while they’re in high school. Four days a week, she takes the ferry to Seattle and either walks or takes the train up to the Seattle Central campus on Capitol Hill. She’s had fun exploring the shops and cafes on her route and invited Lily and me check out a few of her favorites. The middle schoolers had three days off this week for conferences, so we took the ferry over to Seattle for a little mom-and-daughters time.

I couldn’t resist that bag with the Elizabeth Taylor quotation! It’s such great old-school advice from my grandmas’ era. It’s probably meant to be a makeup bag, but I’m going to use it for all the knitting accoutrements that are currently living in a plastic baggie.

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Heyday Farm Chocolate Pecan Pie

When we first moved to Bainbridge, we didn’t know a soul. We’d never even visited the island! As part of our exploring, Lily and I took a pie-making class at Heyday Farm. It was the kind of thing we never seemed to have time for before we moved.

As we pulled up to the farm, we were charmed right away by the cheerful yellow 1890s farmhouse. Shari Stoddard, who has the wonderful-sounding job of “farm host,” escorted us into the beautiful dining room where cooking stations were ready and waiting. Our instructor, Tifanie Swolgaard Mitsui, taught us how to make apple pies and then we gathered around the big counter in the kitchen and watched as she demonstrated how to make a chocolate pecan pie. And then we went back to the dining room, where a delicious lunch had been laid out for us. Lily was twelve at the time and I was proud of her for jumping right into the pie making and the lunchtime conversation.

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