Another year older...

...another year wiser?  That certainly remains to be seen, but I hope I'm getting wiser as the years move on.

Along with my own birthday this week, my first baby turned 17 the day me.  I am just astonished by how someone as seemingly young as I could be his mother.  Eh bien, je l'aime.

He'll clobber me for posting these pics, but he loves cookie cakes.  Unfortunately, the kind they had at the store were covered in frosting, which he detests.  So he ended up scraping off the macaroni colored icing on this beauty.  Believe it or not, this was the best cookie cake we could find.  It put me in a sugar coma for hours.

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I can't believe March is just around the corner and this is my first blog post since New Year's.  Oh la la.  I am just too dang busy.

Here are a few things that have been happening in my life:

• work
• more work
• being swamped at work
• being overwhelmed at work

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• my baby girl turning 13

• driving 7 hours to Chicago to see EXO with said 13-year-old daughter

• climbing to the top of the Willis Tower in Chicago with son and daughter

• turning 21

• crocheting many things and finishing basically nothing

• having Mark McKinney like my Tweet!
• I'm crushing your head!  :)

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I'm sure I'm leaving something out, but maybe I'll get around to blogging about it in June.

Thank you for reading.  I must go to bed now before my eyelids drag my body to the ground.

Love,

--J

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PEACE.

                                   LOVE.

                                                                        EXO.

Quality Time

I like to think of myself as a crafty kind of gal, but my prowess does not usually extend into the kitchen.  However, my kids and I decided to make some delectable things this weekend, which turned out to taste pretty darn good.  Most likely, this was due to my children's very presence.  I really enjoyed spending quality time with them.  I hope they decide to take over kitchen duties for me permanently.  ;)

My 15-year-old son and I made this yummy homemade pizza:

And my 11-year-old daughter and I made these scrumptious snickerdoodles:

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And then I made a couple of batches of soap; Twigs & Berries and Monkey Farts:

I will post more on these soap when I remove them from their molds.

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I have also been crocheting.  I made these wristers using Lion Brand Unique yarn in Harvest:

And this adorable little junior bluebird of happiness.  I will admit that he was made unintentionally small because I made an error while following the pattern.  Namely, I left out 9 rows of crochet.  But I still think he is cute!

How is YOUR weekend going?

Gros bisous!  
--J

Lovely

I am a happy Outlander fan today.  The episode we were all dying to see has made me love the show even more.

There were many scenes that were different from book itself, which made me slightly unhappy while watching this episode for the first time.   I've seen it again and I like it much better now.  I do understand that adaptations are not always going to be exactly the way the book was written so I have to let it go.  I hope the writers on the show choose to include some of the important dialogue in later scenes.  After all, we know Jamie Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Frasier is the king of men, but we want to hear more of his words to really bring that idea home!  Je t'aime, Jamie!

{REAL LIFE INTRUDES...}

So now it's back to the old grindstone.  I wanted to mention that my son and his debate partner got first place in their first-ever Debate tournament over the weekend.  That is a wonderful accomplishment, but I knew my son would make an excellent debater because he has been arguing with me for years!  Bravo, mon fils!  Et je t'aime aussi!  

Voilà.  C’est tout pour aujourd’hui.  À la prochaine!