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Back to. . .
Did you ever notice how, when people talk about autumn,
it’s about getting “back to” things? Well, after the summer of our
dreams, Patti, Jessie, Karyn and I have come down from the clouds and
are getting “back to” our home turf – the land of reality.
For Patti, that means carpooling, or kinderschleping, as she calls it
– a new word she invented for the terror of chauffeuring more kids
than she has car windows. Jessie envies Patti, because once school
starts, she’s back to driving to work in traffic so dense that she’s
tempted to take a hostage just to get to use the carpool lane!
But of all the autumn “back to's,” one makes us all want to run away
…our husbands watching their football games with those endless
replays. Couldn’t they be pre-empted by Desperate Housewives – a show
with a name that describes how we really feel?
What could we do, but turn desperation into inspiration? We delved
into one of our favorite old pleasures, dating back to our college
days – our delight in “loving hands” craftwork. With all our
fall activities, our own hands were full, and we deserved some
indulgences.
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