Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Birthday!

Wow...if I wait 3 more days then I can say I took a 5-month hiatus from my blog whereas blogging after 4 months and 20-something days makes it totally obvious that I was just a slacker.

Now you know the truth.

Stuff happened, and I'll blog about that later, but first here's a post that has been languishing in my drafts folder since about November 20.


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7 weeks ago we added 2 younguns to our house. And we're all still alive to tell about it.


One morning last week during the rush out the door to school I reached the zenith of my desire to inflict bodily harm on a certain 7-year-old, and I don't just mean a simple spanking. I wanted to hurt that kid. You will be proud to know that I didn't.


Really I don't know that you should be proud; I'm an adult, so giving in to my desire to inflict bodily harm cannot be an option...unless I'm inflicting my own bodily with harm by eating a cone full of ice cream for lunch...which I did today (*bliss). You will be relieved, maybe, or less likely to call the authorities if I go on to say that instead of inflicting bodily harm I dropped her off at school...ha, take that, kid.

And I simmered down and that was a good thing.

November 6 was my 28th birthday! 28...sounds so weird. Its been 10 years since my age had an 8 in it. And a lot has changed since then. But I don't feel so different, you know?

Hubs decided to make me a birthday dessert. You may remember the picture perfect chocolate cake he made last year. I had forgotten all about it until I saw it again on the blog. That's why I need a blog. So I can remember all the sweet things hubs does for me.



He asked what I wanted; I produced the recipe for Pumpkin Chocolate Cheesecake pie from my way-too-extensive recipe file (recipes go in, but do they ever come out...).



He made it happen! It was SO good!

Yes I shared it with the girls.


But only the tiniest slices ever.



Refined sugar is not good for our kids, folks. I had to eat it all...for the good of the children...



Because he made it I let hubs play with a piece...



Poor scared pie.

"They" say that you should photograph slices of things with the point facing you, as if the food were looking at you (do I want my food looking at me?), so that the viewer feels connected with the item in the photograph.


This piece of pie is almost looking at you...its looking at something over your left shoulder.

7 comments:

Jenny said...

Welcome back!! I have been wondering how things have been going with the kids!! Hope to see you around more!!

ittybittyandpretty said...

happy belated birthday!! cant wait to hear all about life with (or without) those sweet gals.
xxrosey

Unknown said...

It is about time.
YAY for my blogging buddy again!

I need that pie.

adozeneggs said...

Happy Birthday!!
I'm dying to know the trials and tribulations of your new parenthood.
Glad you're back!!
I still have my sad and empty jar of Biscoff. Waiting to lose some weight before I indulge in a new jar.

Ashli said...

Your hair looks so cute! I am so glad you may be on the brink of a blog rebound! I want to know details of your life!

Miss you so much!
Yep we took her to the zoo, mark that down as "one" good parenting move in her lifetime!

Nana Time said...

Oh, that cheesecake looks even better than your Mom's which are "the bomb".....I'm drooling looking at it while it looks at me :)

Kimberly said...

It was soooo good...I am drooling remembering it