The little house, with living room and eat-in kitchen, cooking implements and dishes on hand, was sweet and tidy, with floor, ceiling and wall paneled in blond wood, and a thoroughly modern bathroom.
But also I run from hopelessness – I run from the myths that moms should be sweet and tidy and happy and smooth and young and beautiful; that bad schools can never change; that hunger and poverty and homelessness will never end; that a mother can't help her child without giving him medication.
It might also fulfil our desire for order and tidiness – to "tidy up" all those pesky sweets.
At the current rate of 1.0percentt, by the end of the year, you'll have parlayed that $100 investment into a tidy $101! Sweet.
Sure, she could have hired a private detective to catch Don in all his sloppy liaisons, thus granting a tidy divorce with sweet alimony.
(Board book; ages 2 to 4) As simple, straightforward and sweet as an applesauce squeezer, this tidy little board version of a classic picture book follows what looks like a one-girl farm operation.
She and her husband bought a handful of apartments to rent to workers; she opened the laundromat Tidy Wave and the Sweet Spot ice-cream store, while her husband worked in construction and ran a cabinetmaking business.
* Tidy up old flowered stems of sweet rocket, and pick over clumps of violas regularly to nip off dead heads.
It was a solid chunk of sweet piggyness, the whole cut through by a tidy pile of the nutty lentils, mixed in with the spiky vinaigrette.
There is always an element of nostalgia in the Carven collections: a sense of a sweet France that probably never existed but is remembered in tidy clothes, bright sweaters, smart raincoats with puddle patterns and jolly music.
