The Baker Downstairs

She made mini apple strudels this week: trays full of delicious stewed apple-raisin mix packed into palm-sized pastry shells. It's been banana bread, pecan pie, turkey-meat curry puffs; it's been mini pizzas and cheese toasties with bacon and...

My mother-in-law is fantastic. She runs the household in sublime balance with the appetites of its residents. And she paints, and she watches Oprah, and she does a million other things, some of which we marvel at and some of which we don't really see.

And this post is brief, but it is long overdue. Thanks, Mom!