I was working on the computer the other day when I heard the bedroom door open. I had a quick look and I saw my daughter running with her hands in front of her as if she were holding the reins of a horse. She’s horse-mad, so she does this all the time.
“Come here, little horse!” I called out. She ran to me and as I hugged her she blew a raspberry imitating the sound of a horse’s neigh. She then lifted the back of her leg to show me the bottom of her shoe and said, “Look, I got hooves!”
Tags: daughters, NaBloPoMo, Things children say
"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong." Laura Ingalls Wilder
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I have tasted fancy dishes and eaten at fine restaurants many times in my life. I have sampled the strange and unfamiliar. I have found fresh favorites and discovered new ingredients, but nothing tastes so delicious to me as the flatbread I ate as a child. Tortillas de harina, a bread made out of wheat flour and […]
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