During my weekend in Sacramento I wandered around town checking off a list of all my favorite things. Coffee shop hot chocolate? Check. Fancy pastries? Check. Independent bookstore? Check. And of course, whenever I’m at a tourist trap I can count on having access to my favorite – caramel apples. The section of Sacramento our hotel was in is totally touristy – I spent one whole morning dodging kids on a field trip – and there were three different candy stores with barrels full of taffy within two blocks. But I let the smell of kettle corn guide me, because I knew that where kettle corn is, a caramel apple can’t be far behind.

A bigger bed means new, bigger, sheets. And I happened to walk into Big Lots when they had all of theirs on super sale. So for less than it would cost to get a cheap set, I got some super high thread count Egyptian cotton fancypants sheets that are just heaven. With that freshly laundered sheet smell.

It is getting harder and harder to get out of bed.

I had a fantastic Mother’s Day this year. Atti and I ended up staying home from church, staying in bed for snuggles and storytime, and then when Bear came home he waited on me hand and foot, cooking anything I wanted and giving me all the time I needed to play with my Mother’s Day present – a new stack of puzzles. Oh why does it have to come only once a year?

Bear and I actually went out on a movie date and that means that I get the best treat in the world – hot tamales and popcorn. I pop one of the candies in my mouth and then shove in a whole handful of popcorn and then it’s like a sweet salty spicy treat all in one. I will eat this until I literally make myself sick.

We got talked into taking an entire banana cream pie home from the BBQ, and I ate it from the pan with a fork like a jerk. Man, it was good.

I am such a child about drinking water. A total baby. It tastes like dirt to me, but I know, oh how I know, all the benefits of drinking it, and all the evils it will save me from in the juice and soda I drink in it’s place.

I’m also really sensitive to any kind of artificial sweetener. Every time a new one comes out people swear to me that you can’t taste a difference, but I can. Every time. So that makes just switching to a diet drink impossible.

I saw a commercial for this stuff on TV and hoped it might be something that could work for me, and I really liked it. There is a little artificial sweetener taste, but since you just squirt it into water, you can control the balance of flavoring and I can make it light enough to not notice the sweetener while also making it heavy enough to not taste the dirt.