I love PW's website/blog! I have made many of her recipes and ALL of them have been really good. I am also a fellow Okie, and have enjoyed learning how to make classic okie food with a Ree boost of goodness! She knows how to take those few extra steps and make a dish that much better... Like making your own cream of chicken instead of canned. I'm in my late 20's and have been married for only a couple of years, so I enjoy being able to learn different techniques that my mother really didn't teach me... Her being in the generation of everything being convenient and canned for the working woman. Hopefully PW loosens up in the next few episodes, though. She seemed nervous and a bit too scripted. Punkinhead, I also consider myself somewhat sophisticated and not gullible.... And I also know that Obama really is the president. I don't think I've ever met anyone in the last 3 years that thought he wasn't??? Not sure where you live in Oklahoma... Maybe a rural area? PS- Pawhuska, OK (Where PW lives) is only 52 miles from Tulsa. You can definitely find pancetta and wild mushrooms in Tulsa!

Yup - she likes them high heels. She looked good - the stupid blurry picture doesn't do her justice (or me either, nyuk, nyuk!) Beverly, I doubt she made all that stuff up. You know true life is really more interesting than the movies! Besides, it's just a simple story - but it's her telling it that makes it interesting. She said she is publishing "High Heels and Tractor Wheels" so you KNOW there will probably be a movie. Bring it on. Better that than more frat-humor and vampire films. (Not that I have anything against frat-humor or vampire movies!)

Guidelines for a cookie exchange? Yeah....no jello jigglers, no pretzel rods dipped into cheap melted chocolate, no pretzel wreaths, no flourescent popcorn balls made with jello, no rice crispie or any other cereal based bars, even if they do have crushed peppermint in them, no haystacks made from chow mein noodles and melted almond bark. I am sure there are more but I can't think of them right now! And yeah...it IS all about presentation. As I learned from funeral lunches (well really I knew ti way before that!) Put a table cloth on the table and some sort of centerpiece,e ven if it's only a pumpkin and some fall leaves and people think it's fabulous! many years ago, a friend and I particiated in a Christmas bazaar where the cost of the space went to charity and the entrance fee from the buyers, and what you sold you got to keep. We were not really into tiny painted birdhouses or dressed dolls etc... what we sold was really pretty lame... On the day of the sale I got there about an hour before Liz and set up the booth...had a frame so I could raise a checked table cloth high so it could be seen....and we were swamped. Liz said when she came all she could see was this great mob around one booth....and lo and behold it was our booth. Presentation...pricing and product. Linda C

Sweeby is right, it may have come out wrong. she may not understand how germs spread and that she can get sick, maybe she just took it as 'stay away from me' and got her feelings hurt. She'll get over it, like tired says, she's young & they forget as long as you don't make a big deal. You don't have to listen to kkny, her last sentence worries ME. She has a problem with SM having a relationship with SK's, so she thinks your DH should be able to handle it all by himself and you are stepping over boundaries.... especially if your SD is closer to you, which is quite normal for a little girl to be closer to a female, than a male at her age. IMHO.