Friday nights are tough at the Sandwich house. Baguette is exhausted from the long week. We’re tired. We’ve learned it’s a terrible night to go out to dinner, because Baguette...
Restaurants and Food
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Resolutions? Word of the Year? Bring It On, 2019
Resolutions are tricky. There are so many things I want to accomplish, and it’s so hard to narrow them down, and it’s so hard to finish anything. So I usually...
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Your Own Oxygen Mask
You know the maxim. Put your own mask on first. Often, though, that’s easier said than done. Because the other mask is needed so urgently, and so persistently, that it’s...
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Little Victories
Baguette is a picky eater. No, pickier than that. Her main food source is macaroni and cheese. Even then, she’s picky about consistency and texture. The need to provide portions...
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Nothing’s Ever Easy
That’s my father’s saying. Mine is “It’s always something.” Baguette’s IEP includes bus transportation between home and school. Because she is now able to attend the after-school program (this is...
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Three Fall Dinners
I love roasted vegetables. Love, love, love them. It’s not quite cool enough for that yet (although we did have a delightfully fall-like First Day of Fall). With temperatures in...
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Summer Recap
I haven’t posted in a while. Or much this year at all. Turns out, life’s exhausting. Baguette finished TK in June, and we promptly left for a week’s vacation in...
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Spring Break! And Then a Bit More
This is Baguette’s first year in school, which means that we just had her first Spring Break. No, we did not take her to Mazatlan or South Padre Island or...
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Made-Up Rules for Our Imaginary Children
When Mr. Sandwich and I were married, but before we had Baguette, we made many pronouncements, as you do. Some of them still hold, like leaving the restaurant when we...
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Santa Barbara: The Ugly
We were in a restaurant. It wasn’t Denny’s, but it wasn’t Ruth’s Chris, either–your standard American fare, in an attractive but not terribly trendy setting. It was late, particularly for...