Twinkle Light Succotash

I always pictured my future as a house. A crowded table on the porch with lights dripping from big magnolia trees was part of the vision. So before we even changed the locks on our new house, during naptime I was up on a ladder, hanging twinkle lights above the patio. We had a two-week-old baby, and Deavours thought I was crazy—I can’t say I disagreed. But on that first official night in the new house, under those twinkling lights, we ate grilled steak and corn on plates and silverware rumm