sigh
sigh sigh
such big dreams
such good intentions ...
I have a notebook filled with content for this blog ... pix too, but alas ... a nearly 11 month old baby and not even enough time to take a shower some days (I know I am SO not alone on this front...) and laundry ... dishes? How do you get anything done? No really, HOW? I'm in awe of those of you who are able to have any semblance of a life and clean home with a baby. Who knew it would be this hard? And I truly thought that I would be 'the one' who would be able to pull it off, even though everyone tells you you won't/can't .... I was SURE I was somehow different - more capable or organized (yeah, right) or just better ... well - I'm not. There, I said it. Yup. Human and no better than anyone else. Wow. This is so humbling.
(So please check back mid-October when maybe, just maybe, there will be a real launch of this little blog!)
loving these muffins
I am not so much a baker. But while trolling my fav craft/creative/design blogs late one night while feeding the monkey, I came upon this seemingly simple recipe for muffins from
Prudent Baby that looked both delicious and like something even I could handle.
Right on both accounts. I've made them almost every weekend since discovering them and now I even share! (1st time I ate 6 out of 8 ... I rationalized this intake with the old 'breastfeeding burns an extra 500 calories a day' ...)
You MUST make these. (I used Bonne Maman Framboises & Apricot Jam. I never saw this flavor in the states - only in Zurich ... amazing!)
Prudent Baby that looked both delicious and like something even I could handle.
Right on both accounts. I've made them almost every weekend since discovering them and now I even share! (1st time I ate 6 out of 8 ... I rationalized this intake with the old 'breastfeeding burns an extra 500 calories a day' ...)
You MUST make these. (I used Bonne Maman Framboises & Apricot Jam. I never saw this flavor in the states - only in Zurich ... amazing!)
birth announcement: check (with 3 months to spare!)
I have threatened to start this blog for a while now. Now I can cross one thing off my 2010 to-do list. Fantastic.
After much debating (with myself mostly) and going back and forth (again w/me) and procrastination (yup - all me) I finally decided what to do for E's birth announcements and am proud to say that even without the proper - or at least what I wanted to use to create them - programs, I was able to get pretty close to what I had envisioned.
The printing is not great and I keep thinking of things I might have done differently but I have now promised to shut up, look at that sweet baby face looking up at her name and know that these are lovely.
(And while I feel like these are going out v. late, apparently one has up to 6 months to send out birth announcements ... so really, I am ahead of the game. Fantastic.)
After much debating (with myself mostly) and going back and forth (again w/me) and procrastination (yup - all me) I finally decided what to do for E's birth announcements and am proud to say that even without the proper - or at least what I wanted to use to create them - programs, I was able to get pretty close to what I had envisioned.
The printing is not great and I keep thinking of things I might have done differently but I have now promised to shut up, look at that sweet baby face looking up at her name and know that these are lovely.
(And while I feel like these are going out v. late, apparently one has up to 6 months to send out birth announcements ... so really, I am ahead of the game. Fantastic.)