Nearing Summer

This evening as I walked back from a picnic, it really hit home that it’s nearly June and summer. Beyond the fact that I got devoured by biting insects like mosquitoes, I saw two glowing fireflies. p.s. Does anyone else call them lightning bugs? I think I did when I was little.
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Lunchtime Dinosaur Peanut Butter and Jelly

I found my dinosaur sandwich cutter, which I’d never used. I decided to try it out yesterday on my peanut butter and jelly “sandwich” tortillas. Before work, I made the pbj tortillas, then cut them with the sandwich cutter. It may have been because I was cutting through a tortilla instead of sandwich bread, but […]
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Lumpia

Last weekend I made lumpia. Lumpia is a deep-fried Filipino spring roll. I got ideas from what my Lolo (my mom’s dad) taught me, as well as from a book my Auntie Tellie and Uncle Al got me called The Little Lumpia Book by Gene Gonzalez. Sunday, I spent about 5 hours chopping vegetables. I […]
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