Quotidian: daily, usual or customary;
everyday; ordinary; commonplace
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Channeling our inner Puerto Rican: Buen provecho!
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Prepped.
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Grilled.
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Plated.
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Stale: to be cubed for future baked French toasts.
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And that, my friends, is a seriously fluffy ricotta pancake.
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Full or empty? (For us, this is getting pretty bare…)
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Calm down, hon. It’s just me.
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Aaaaand another GoT fan is born.
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Holstein versus Jersey.
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Bottoms up!
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Spring showers.
photo credit: my younger daughter
This same time, years previous: ground beef chili with chocolate and peanut butter, the coronavirus diaries: week four, instead of a walk, kickboxing, caribbean milk cake, a trick for cooking pasta, the quotidian (4.4.16), red raspberry pie, sun days, babies and boobs, working lunches, the quotidian (4.2.12).
4 Comments
hillaryljackson
Jennifer I know this is a strange jumping off point but I remember you writing something about one of your kids coming into reading quite late. I am beating myself up as my first grader has still not really learned how to read but I was wondering if you could point me to blog posts you wrote about that?
Jennifer Jo
Yes, absolulely — I’m writing a whole freaking BOOK on the topic, ha! (Spoiler alert: she didn’t start reading until she was almost 13.)
Here’s one the post that summarizes it best: http://jennifermurch.com/2014/11/when-your-child-cant-read_5/ and there are lots of other stories sprinkled throughout the earlier years. I’d be happy to email/phone call/visit with you, too…
suburbancorrespondent
So many kids learn to read quite easily by 7 or 8 if you don’t push it too early! Keep reading to him and back off on the instruction, he’s just not ready yet. I have 6, 4 of whom learned to read between the ages of 5 and 7. The other 2? 9 and 3 months, both of them, exactly (and they are not twins). Brains have their own timeline of development, it seems!
Elva
Wow, green grass! We still have a dusting of snow; however, there are bluebirds flying around!