Me: "Owen, you look very handsome."
Owen: "You look handsome, too, Mom."
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Sam brought me maple tree seeds, the ones I know mainly as helicopters. (NASA tells me these are excellent autorotators.) "I found this seed when I was coming home from school and I'm giving it to you because you are a great planter!"
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I'm sure Jude has said something lovely and charming recently but it's been overlaid with the more-frequent sassiness. It's a phase, it will pass, and I don't care for it.
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The soup turned out pretty well. I went the safe route: onions, celery, carrots + a can of tomatoes. Cumin and coriander. When I ate it, I realized I had unintentionally mimicked my mom's beef vegetable soup.
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Speaking of cooking, I tried making cupcakes from scratch. The cupcakes were fine but unimpressive, but the frosting - YUM! cream cheese, butter, confectioner sugar and lemon juice. Who needs the cake?
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