If you want to score some major points with relatively little effort, a volcano cake is the way to go. We just made a pile of cake, threw some brown fondant on top and let it fall where it wanted, and then tinted some buttercream frosting to make it look like lava. All of the […]
[Continue reading...]2010 Year of Pleasures #43
November 2, 2010
I hated babysitting when I was a teen, but there was one family I would watch and it was because the mom was really into food preservation and always had home dried bananas in the house. Bananas dried in a food dehydrator are totally different than the dried bananas you buy at the store. Those […]
[Continue reading...]An exciting development
November 1, 2010
Would you look at that. My little guy has developed an actual muscle. I don’t want to jinx us here, but I think we just might be on the verge of some pretty exciting new skills being developed. You can’t stand if you don’t have the strength, and after a whole lot of work, I […]
[Continue reading...]Happy Halloween!
October 29, 2010
Here I am crossing another “I never” off of my parenting manifesto. I thought there would never be a day where I would go to one of those Halloween places that take over abandoned big box stores and put down money for a costume made out of who knows what, manufactured who knows where under […]
[Continue reading...]Chicken Caesar Bowl
October 28, 2010
I think sharing this “recipe” will give you a good insight into where my life has been lately. It was a Thursday night, the week was seriously weighing on me, the grocery shopping and meal planning had been put off and put off until I found myself with chicken breast that had to be used […]
[Continue reading...]Roasted goodness
October 27, 2010
The last of the summer tomatoes are still showing up at farm stands, so I’ve been snapping them up. And then as is common for me, forgetting about them until they start to go wrinkly. But now I don’t grieve over that like I used to, ever since my friend Sara proved to me that […]
[Continue reading...]2010 Year of Pleasures #43
October 26, 2010
Proof that my husband loves me. Knowing how perpetually behind I’ve been feeling, and how much it would mean to me, he scrubbed the entire house while I was gone. Our computer was also overtaken by viruses, AGAIN, so in between parenting all by himself, dealing with the usual 24 hour a day work calls, […]
[Continue reading...]Ahhhhhh.
October 25, 2010
By now you may have picked up on the occasional note of desperation in my blogging. A little exhaustion, feeling spread a wee bit thin. This year has been the most demanding and rewarding year in my life, and it left me feeling at a very low ebb in my emotional resources. This weekend was […]
[Continue reading...]Off again
October 22, 2010
As this posts I’m on my way to the airport for a weekend in Salt Lake talking about women power stuff. It is such a charge to hang out with such brilliant people and talk about something I care about so much. And such a pleasure to have a way to use my brain for […]
[Continue reading...]Paperclay ghosts
October 21, 2010
In my last house, this buffet was upstairs and only got a few little decorations. In this house it’s front and center so I needed to do better. Once I rearranged the decorations I had to fit the new place, I realized that I was seriously lacking something for this spot that brought in a […]
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