Hooray, the baby boy is back home!

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children, food, Home, postaday2013, sushi, traveling

My son is done with his recording session on Cape Cod with his band and we met him in Boston so that he can get the car to get back home to his little sister and little Jack. Since my hubby and I both missed him very much, we decided that before he got into the car, we would have a nice sushi dinner before letting him go on his merry way. My hubby took the three of us to the Kowloon restaurant, an Asian restaurant happy to serve you food from any expression of Asian cuisine. There was a selection for Thai lovers, Szechuan aficionados, Cantonese and even Sushi. While our baby boy was ordering, it was apparent that the poor boy hadn’t eaten very well or very much because he took advantage of the fact that there was something for every type of Asian craving you might be having. He ordered scallion pancakes, paper thin sliced tuna served with a spicy vinaigrette and a sushi/sashimi combo plate. I ordered two special rolls one with eel, avocado and cucumber and the other, spicy tuna and cucumber, they were both yummy. My hubby ordered pad thai, a standard Thai noodle dish, one that I have made several times at home and it is the Thai version of a comfort food dish. Noodles, ground pork, shrimp and pieces of sautéed egg with bean sprouts, cilantro and peanuts, it is a delicious combination of flavors.

We are very happy to have both of our children home now. I might be becoming like my grandmother, she was always happiest when she had everyone around her at the table. A full house, in her estimation, was a happy house. If my babies want to stay home while they are getting their lives together and their plans off the ground, I would be more than happy to have them home with us.

Daily prompt: the wonders of nature

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city, nature, postaday2013, rural, urban

Describe your first memorable experience exploring and spending time in nature. Were you in awe? Or were you not impressed? Would you rather spend time in the forest or the city?

When I was little with my sister, who was littler still, on those autumn mornings in early October; my parents used to throw us into the Ford Pinto hatchback and head up to the Adirondack mountains early Saturday mornings to get us out of New York City and into the countryside. My sister and I loved hiking up the trails, they were easy trails to walk, we were all of six and nine years old, and I would tell her pretend stories that the small caves that we would pass by, were home to the Grizzlies and we had to be very quiet as we walked past those caves. Occasionally I would peek in and try to see further in, but my parents would call for me or so I thought, so I never ventured far into the caves. The trails were very well marked to make sure that hikers wouldn’t get lost and even with my very active imagination, I didn’t want to get lost.

I have to say that the majesty of the Adirondack mountains in the fall was not lost on me or my little sister. These adventures were a high point of our weekends and the best part was the trip to the local diner where they served the best B.L.T’s that my sister and i had ever eaten. We always went home with a bag full of leaves to bring back home for my sister to bring to school for her class. I think that I also had use of those leaves for my science classes in discussion of the different trees that made up the forests of the mountain range.

These are very special memories, spending the entire day outside of the city with the four of us having a really nice time being together.