Stubbornness
Stubborn is sailing across an ocean on your 18th birthday with your cousin, and staying for nearly 70 more years.
Stubborn is taking your daughter to every specialist within a day's driving, hoping they can treat her.
Stubborn is fighting for to keep your daughter in regular classes
Stubborn is leaving your husband and raising your seven-and-a-half-year-old daughter by yourself.
Stubborn is quitting your job to earn your associate's degree, while being a single mother, and managing to live off savings and child support for a year.
Stubborn is living on your own until the day you die.
Stubborn is you and the baby not sleeping through the night for most of two and a half years, but soldiering on. (Stupid too; get a hotel room away from the baby and get a night's sleep.)
Stubborn is writing this calendar for seven years.
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The recipe: Doughnuts
Doughnuts are a Fasching treat, but it is a family tradition I inherited from my grandmother, who would make doughnuts for dinner once a year on Shrove Tuesday. The only doughnuts that come close, other than made by other family members, are Federal Doughnuts in Philadelphia.
The craft: Homemade bows!
Because why not? Guaranteed to match the bow to the ribbon.