So, I heard it through the grapevine that I'm HSB Featured Blogger of the week. I guess I should check the HSB home page more regularly.  I am honored and grateful for the recognition, and welcome any of you who might be visiting for the first time as a result. I've been blogging at HSB for almost 2 years and have thoroughly enjoyed the community here. I've made so many wonderful friends, and have even had opportunity to meet some in real life; although not as many as I'd like! Too bad I can't convince my husband to take an indefinite leave of absence from his job so that we can tour the country meeting blog friends face to face and visiting national parks. I think it sounds like a delightful plan myself! And imagine the possibilities for real-life learning beyond textbooks.
Have fun browsing through my archives. I've tried to organize them as best as I can into categories that make sense (to me anyway).  Now that all eyes are on me, we'll see if I can manage to publish some of the many ideas that have been running through my head for months. There's nothing like a little pressure and a deadline to get me going. If any of you have any specific questions that you've just been wanting to ask me forever, feel free to leave a comment with your question and I'll do my best to answer them.
To start us off, I'll respond to all the comments about the most recent birthday cake. I baked the cake myself, and intended to assemble it, but my mom took over for me, and then the kids took over for her with the decorating. It's a very simple heart-shaped design using a 9x9 inch square pan and a 9x9 inch round pan cut in half (the cake not the pan). Turn the square so it looks like a diamond, and place the semi-circles flush with the upper diagonal edges, frost it and you get a heart. And that's the extent of my cake decorating ability. It does make a big cake which can't even fit on a cookie sheet, so you'll have to enlist the help of your dear husband to wrap some posterboard in foil for the base, and then it'll take up all the counter-space so that there's not enough room to put the home-made pizzas on it, and you'll get so frustrated with the lack of space that you'll wish for a bigger kitchen and more couterspace; even though the one you have is plenty big, and you can hardly keep up with keeping the counters clean as it is. But your kids will have so much fun decorating the cake with imperial red hearts, even though they don't do it the way you wanted it to be done, and after you criticize their best efforts, you'll realize how foolish you are, and you'll have to announce that they should all ignore their grumpy mother, and do whatever the birthday girl and their crazy grandma want.
And you wonder how I became featured blogger... |
