dennis and i went to slc last weekend to attend family events. we went to the temple with grandma on saturday and then a tea party at sara's. on sunday we went to enoch's blessing.
for those of you who don't know, enoch is shannon (dennis's sister) and jared butterfield's baby who was born three days before esme. they've been keeping him away from crowds and small children for month or so because of the risk of rsv. the doctor said he could go out in the middle of march and so he made his debut on march 16. his father, jared, gave him a marvelous and loving blessing and grandpa and uncles were in the circle.

these pictures are of the dinner that we had afterwards at grandma fullers.

here is the star of the show.

uncle jarrett moulton

anna lisa moulton holding enoch (one of my favorite pics)

the weather was very wet and snowy, but so beautiful

grandma's feast included danish soup, taco soup, chicken corn chowder, hot rolls and salad. recipe for strawberry spinach salad to follow.

grandma fuller cooking, of course

grandma butterfield and enoch

moulton cousins hyrum and elijah

jared helping elijah bless the food

grandma working on the feast

grandpa butterfield




uncle dennis helping always

• recipe for strawberry spinach salad:
• 1 bunch baby spinach or 1 head romaine lettuce or combination of both
• 1 pint strawberries sliced
• 1 to 1 1/2 cups red grapes halved
• 1/2 small red onion sliced thin
• poppy seed dressing:
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup sugar or splenda equivalent
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
  

Jane Austen

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rearranging dishes last week

i said i would show you the results of my organizing and housekeeping of last saturday. here it is if anyone but me is interested. i love my snowman dishes, but i feel that, like white shoes, which are only appropriate between memorial day and labor day, snowman dishes are only appropriate from december first to february twenty-eigth or in this case ninth. so, they had to be consigned to the china closet. i took out all the dishes and dusted and cleaned and:

here are the snowman plates neatly arranged in the china closet


i had to take all the dishes out of the closet to clean it. i had dishes everywhere, on every flat surface in the dining room and kitchen. notice the blue willow. i have to figure out when the appropriate utilization time will be for them, because i don't want them to feel bad, and besides they remind me of grandma thomas. who remembers her blue willow, raise your hand. i distincly recall her making me milky, sweet coffee in those cups and then whispering "don't tell your mom." i thought we were doing something naughty, but very cool. anyway, i think i should use them in the fall, say from august through november. i hope i remember.





it is now time for my pfaltzgraff garden party dishes with tulips, violets and cherries on a lattice background. these i also love. they make me feel like spring just to eat on them.





this is a part of my collection of christmas mugs. why do i have so many? my china is all clean and arranged in the china closet here are presents from anne adele and jennifer. and notice my dining table doesn't have a bunch of junk on it. if only it would stay that way.

well, this took some serious time. i can't believe how long it takes to download pictures and get them all in the right place. i hope you all appreciate the great amounts of digital technology i am mastering. it took me quite a while to "grab and move" stuff. i'm still not great at it.

but, the cool thing is while i've been sweating over this tenny has been making me lime bars so am going to go eat some right now. they are very green and beautiful as she was generous with the food coloring. i'd show you a picture but i've had all i can handle.

i,m tired of this brown wallpaper background. please, someone, tell me how to change it; and while you're at it, tell me how to change the teaparty picture that's at the first.

ok, i am extremely dim and managed to get this picture of dennis on here twice. he is partaking of his usual healtful breakfast of cheetos and rootbeer. i told him not to stare into the camera, but to gaze thoughtfully at the amaryllis, so as to give this shot 'as unstudied an air as possible'.

the cup is my favorite christmas mug because it was ben's. i've been cleaning and organizing my dish cupboards and china closet. too much stuff. i will show pictures of the results when i have more time.

okay, leah or esme gave me her germs. i think it was leah because the symptoms are very much like what i know about rsv and that's probably all i should say about that. i've been sick since a week ago saturday. at work i had to drug myself heavily and wear a mask. whenever i breathed my glasses fogged up, then i would yank my mask off for a breath of air and my glasses would fly off also, once almost into something oohoogeeinisk(spelled phonetically since i can't find my danish dictionary).
when i wasn't at work i was laying on the couch reading georgette heyer and napping.

i'd be reading like: "you are perfectly right, i regret to say that he has been a constant source of anxiety to his widowed parent."

"he seems very young" said the major.

"but, alas, old in sin"...

and then i'd nod off for some space of time and when i'd wake up i'd read it over again, but i couldn't remember who was speaking or what the conversation was about or even what book i was reading. wow, i was really spaced out.

but, yesterday, saturday, i woke up and felt like i had some energy. i got up and did dishes, straightened up and then started rearranging my dishes. i will have to say more about that on another post. i took pictures and everything. but it's too late tonight.

yes, today is ben's birthday. twenty seven years ago we got to have him. i've been missing him so much. i was in the bathtub and put some baby shampoo on my hair and the smell of it reminded me of his smell and the wish to be able to smell him again was so strong it was almost unbearable. i could go on and on, but that would probably be pathetic, so i won't. it was just a really bad good day today, is all.

on a lighter note: here is a quote that dennis just said to me: "he was vigorous father, very vigorous." probably way too easy, but it's so funny when dennis just comes out with stuff like that.