Dearest Lucy, you celebrate two times. I am jealous ONLY if you get two times the amount of presents, LOL! Love your baby brug! Seriously, it truly is a wonderful time to reflect and give thanks for all who are so friendly and giving here in the brug site. It's time to celebrate, celebrate the birth of Jesus!!!! Merry Christmas from my home to yours.

Morning Ruthie! Yes mam I do havesome pics. They are in my yahoo photo albums which are contained in my web page by a link near the bottom of the page. ( I use a web tv so I cannot load pics to here without the helpof a REAL computer) NOW there are like nine albums...and many pics of all my flora about here, probably best found in the cd albums. I will add the url to this email, thoug it is in my page info. BUT I think your right...Iwill have to wait..and its okay Also in my photos are pics of my work( I am a baker) as well as pics of the property I will be working on over the next few years...a past rental house..pets you name it...soif youd prefer I can email some pics directly to you, if youso choose.... TY for your reply Here is a link that might be useful: WASABISWORLD

So, I'll give it a try. For decent, not expensive cookware, you have 3 choices. 1) All aluminum- as thick as you can find. Problems? Aluminum can warp at higher heat, and two, it often comes with a 'non-stick' coating on the inside because it doesn't like tomatoes and other acid type foods when it's not coated. 2) Stainless, with a thick disc on the bottom. The disc is most often aluminum -just on the bottom, and may be covered with stainless (called encapsulated). It must have the thick bottom. This stuff provides a great cooking bottom because of the thick bottom, and stainless is easy to clean but... sometimes the stainless sides are a bit thin, so you can get a 'hot' ring, right above that thick bottom. And the manufacturer folds over the stainless edge at the top, so it's hard to tell how thick the stainless itself is. This style is often bought for large stock pots for soups etc.- if you leave these pans on the burner and let it burn, the bottom will separate from the pan, and it will start to make crackling noises- time to throw out. 3) Stainless 'tri-ply'- this is a stainless pan with a middle layer of aluminum in the middle between thin layers of stainless- through out the whole pan, sides and everything- and you can see the layers if you look at the top edge of the pan. These things are bombproof and cook well. They don't have quite as much material on the bottom, but the sides rarely burn the food, and cook more evenly for sauces. Usually more expensive. Non-stick works for eggs, pancakes but does not like high heat, -scratches, peels, and even produces fumes at hight heat. Because it's dark, it's harder to see how the food is changing. It's typically bought as a fry pan for eggs.. Cast-iron is often used as a skillet (plain,-not porcelain) because they'll take great amounts of heat, and become relatively non-stick with use. Cast-iron (porcelain coated) is often used as a french oven for slow cooking esp. if acidic foods like tomatoes are used. Here's a link to a sale of J.C. Penney's tri-ply cookware- but everyone makes it, but usually more expensive. Here is a link that might be useful: Penny's Cook's

Bryces Mommy, I thought about your dream last night. Perhaps there's a message in that dream concerning your guilt. "I was so happy to see him but then something happened where he needed me more then ever but I couldn't reach him to save him." As horrifying as the dream was, perhaps this was to give you peace that your being there might not have made a difference. Life leaves us with so many unanswered questions. There's a true story that someone once told me that makes me cry every time I repeat it. A young mother of 3 lost her husband in some kind of accident. She related this years later, when she had remarried and her children were almost teens. "I was the only woman to ever lose her husband. I WALLOWED in my grief. One day I looked up to notice my little children, sitting quietly in a row on the sofa, watching, waiting for Mommy to stop crying." She went on to tell how she told them to get ready and she quickly dressed and left the house with them. From that turning point she began to heal. I could not at that time identify with her loss, but I identified with the children. Now I still can't imagine her own sorrow, but I can understand the paralzying feeling that grief brings. I know the need to tell and retell one's experiences, and the need to stop and cry before you can continue with a simple task. This might be a Christmas during which you could focus on grandparents or older friends without children around, and they on you. Your husband hurts, too. Encourage each other. We need to hear more about this precious child. When he learned to walk. When he learned to talk. Details of him in the winter, in the spring, with his Grampa, with the cat. The Real Bryce, never to be forgotten. Nell