Here's a long overdue update!
Since we moved to a newer place, TM's allergies have calmed down surprisingly. She doesn't seem to have trouble with gluten or dairy anymore, which is marvelous!
I had a blast making her birthday cake:
TM also is absolutely loving taking horse riding lessons. She's quite passionate about it.
This Christmas season was taking up with learning how to make chocolates. One of my friends makes hundreds and hundreds of chocolates every Christmas and sells them. He taught me the basics of fancy chocolate making. Very cool! He gets Callebaut chocolate shipped straight from Belgium, and he sold me about 20 lbs to play with. Very yum. Everyone loved them!
For our Christmas portrait I decided we should paint! TM chose butterflies, CH and I worked on the background, and Q contributed here and there. Our handprints are on it as signatures -- it was ever so much fun! Definitely due for a repeat next year.
The Fall here was full of fungi, which was absolutely marvelous. The two that stand out in my memory were the orange fairy cups (who wouldn't fall in love with those?)
and the shaggy manes were ever-so scrumptious!!
In other Fall news, we won the who-can-let-their-pumpkin-rot-the-longest contest (warning: picture not for the faint of heart).
I forgot to put in our Gingerbread House that we did before Christmas with my sister, who came to visit!
I'm teaching myself classical guitar, as well as anyone can teach themselves anything so insanely complicated. It's gloriously fun and very challenging, but mostly all I can do is teach myself to read notes and not get my fingers in the way of each other.
I also made some cute swim shorts for us girls out of great swimsuit fabric. Very fun! TM still needs a swim shirt, so I'd better get on it.
None of this is news for my FB friends, but I thought I'd put up a post anyway.
Cheers!
Since we moved to a newer place, TM's allergies have calmed down surprisingly. She doesn't seem to have trouble with gluten or dairy anymore, which is marvelous!
I had a blast making her birthday cake:
TM also is absolutely loving taking horse riding lessons. She's quite passionate about it.
This Christmas season was taking up with learning how to make chocolates. One of my friends makes hundreds and hundreds of chocolates every Christmas and sells them. He taught me the basics of fancy chocolate making. Very cool! He gets Callebaut chocolate shipped straight from Belgium, and he sold me about 20 lbs to play with. Very yum. Everyone loved them!
The Fall here was full of fungi, which was absolutely marvelous. The two that stand out in my memory were the orange fairy cups (who wouldn't fall in love with those?)
In other Fall news, we won the who-can-let-their-pumpkin-rot-the-longest contest (warning: picture not for the faint of heart).
I forgot to put in our Gingerbread House that we did before Christmas with my sister, who came to visit!
I'm teaching myself classical guitar, as well as anyone can teach themselves anything so insanely complicated. It's gloriously fun and very challenging, but mostly all I can do is teach myself to read notes and not get my fingers in the way of each other.
I also made some cute swim shorts for us girls out of great swimsuit fabric. Very fun! TM still needs a swim shirt, so I'd better get on it.
None of this is news for my FB friends, but I thought I'd put up a post anyway.
Cheers!
