This weekend marks Margaux's second birthday. I don't often "spoil" my kids, but I love to go a little overboard on their birthdays.
So, Margaux wanted an ice cream cake, so not only did I make the ice cream cake, I made the ice cream!
We are holding her party at home one more time, and again it is a soup party. I love soup parties. I make three or four batches of different soups, and last year I made four types of bread too (this year I'm making one type). Guests LOVE it.
Last year instead of party bags, I sent everyone home with enough soup and bread for a dinner at home some other night. I figured the parents deserved party bags sometimes too!
So, Black Bean, Pumpkin and Un-Chicken soup are on the menu this year, with store bought Sour dough and Corn bread (my Mom's Johnny cake recipe actually). Since we moved the party to a lunch party this should be just fine.
Now off to prepare my lecture for tomorrow!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
First post
Blogging...it seems so...egotistical. As if someone out there might care to read my thoughts. Well, I enjoy reading other people's blogs, so who knows, maybe someone will care about mine.
Then it struck me. Long term, many years from now, my kids might care. Think the blog will still be here for them to read? Heck it is Google, it probably will be. Looking back I can tell you I would love to know what my mother was thinking and feelings as she raised all of her children and struggled with her new identity as a Mom vs. the old identity of smart, driven career woman....She tells me the times were different then and she was younger when she had her kids. But still, she graduated high school with my father and she was valedictorian and he was third. Then five years later she marries him, supports him as he gets his PhD, and soon after is a stay at home Mom for 10 years or more...
Sounds too much like my life.
Not easy to go from top of the class, top of the world, to laundress, milk cow and house cleaner.
So, that is what this blog is supposed to be about. Is it unique? Nah. But it's me, and so automatically it is different than you.
Come along for the ride.
Then it struck me. Long term, many years from now, my kids might care. Think the blog will still be here for them to read? Heck it is Google, it probably will be. Looking back I can tell you I would love to know what my mother was thinking and feelings as she raised all of her children and struggled with her new identity as a Mom vs. the old identity of smart, driven career woman....She tells me the times were different then and she was younger when she had her kids. But still, she graduated high school with my father and she was valedictorian and he was third. Then five years later she marries him, supports him as he gets his PhD, and soon after is a stay at home Mom for 10 years or more...
Sounds too much like my life.
Not easy to go from top of the class, top of the world, to laundress, milk cow and house cleaner.
So, that is what this blog is supposed to be about. Is it unique? Nah. But it's me, and so automatically it is different than you.
Come along for the ride.
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