Month: April 2013

Candy Bar Cake.

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Ben’s birthday was this weekend and I had grand plans for his cake this year, based on a pin of mine over on pinterest. But then somewhere around Tuesday, I sort of hit the wall for the week.  Which is the equivalent of realizing you’re ready for bed at 10:30 am on a day where you just don’t have the time to go to bed until about 11 that night. You know those days?  Well, that was my week.    Two solid months of being booked solid caught up with me in a huge way.  There wasn’t much I could really back out of, I just had to put on my big girl pants and get through it.  And that’s when I was inspired to reconsider Ben’s cake.  I knew I would be hard pressed to whip up a layer cake with fillings and frosting, but why couldn’t I take one of my fabulous flourless tortes and use that as a base for Ben’s requested  ‘chocolate, chocolate, chocolate’ cake?  Which is what I did.

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Wines I Drank – The Front Yard Edition.

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With spring and warmer weather comes our family doing more outside.   Including happy hour every day we can.  Is there really anything nicer than sitting outside on a beautiful day and just soaking it in?  We think not.

It seems we have plenty of friends and neighbors who agree.  From the first official outdoor happy hour of the season until we close it up for the fall, we have a steady stream of drop-ins.  Why yes, it has been much commented that in some ways, we live similarly to how we did in college, only we now have a mortgage, a child and are a bit more responsible.

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Eleanor

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If you are Facebook friends with me, you may have recently seen  where I was featured on The Eleanor Project.  The project is the brainchild of my friends Terry & Jen.  It promotes the idea that all women are beautiful, no matter what we look like.    I am humbled and flattered to be included.  I operate under the assumption that like newborn babies, there is something beautiful about everyone.  I see the problem of women not seeing their own beauty as a confidence issue.
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Laundry Fail.

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In the current madness that is my life, I’ve been alternately worried about dropping a ball while patting myself on the back for not dropping a ball.   Friday night, I realized I dropped a ball.  Not a big one, just as I was crawling into bed about 10 pm Friday night, I realized I hadn’t washed Edie’s soccer uniform.  Which meant it had sat and smouldered in her laundry basket all week and was going to be smelling fully ripe for her game in the morning.  I assured myself I’d wash it just as soon as she got home and got it off her back the next day. Continue reading →

An Accidental Career.

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March madness has morphed into Assiduous April.  I knew at the onset of March it was going to be busy.  And then things happened…..all good things, but it seemed like all I was doing some days was adding to my to-do list instead of actually tackling any items on the list.  I also found myself writing things down – I pride myself on not having to write things down.  When I write things down, that means I’m overwhelmed, I have too many things going on and I need to slow down.  I kept telling myself if I could just get through the month of March, I could get caught up.  All of it.  The house, other projects that got shoved to the back burners, time with friends, my garden…. Continue reading →

It’s good to have wine friends.

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My friend Bonnie‘s husband Ted is a bit of a wine guy.  When not busy being a neurologist, he does podcasts and was a founding partner of a wine importing and distribution business.  I love going over to their house for drinks because there is always good wine and even better, Ted likes to pull out new things for me to try.  Like the bottle of Georgian wine he sent over for my birthday a few years ago. Continue reading →