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What a crazy week

Ok, Sunday morning wake up and automatically bake a cake because that’s what I do on Sundays to prepare for cake class Monday night.  While cake is in the oven, drag out book for class and begin gathering items on the check-list and packing them.  Get to bottom of list...

Houston, we have a baby

Baby Emelia Johnson was born at 1:01 a.m. on the Chinese New Year (of the pig).  She is 8 pounds, 5 ounces and roughly 20.5 inches.  She has long fingers and feet and some dark hair on her head. Mom will be staying at the hospital until Wednesday, recovering from...

The weather outside

So today is pretty messy.  Every time I look outside I swear it’s doing something different.  One minute it’s raining, then sleeting, then snowing huge chunks, then sleeting sideways.  I don’t mind snow so much, but I’m not big on this slick and messy stuff.  I’m working from home today. ...

Weekend’s over, back to real life

What a crazy week has just passed. On Thursday Chris and I visited with Shanna at St. Francis. She’s recovering from surgery in her private room (which we got lost trying to find because we went to the 8th floor, but in the wrong building). When we left there we...

3, 2, 1, Contact

Does anyone else remember watching that show on PBS as a kid?  That song is stuck in my head right now. Started fondant class on Monday.  Only $10 to register, $50 worth of required tools and supplies, and an additional $50 or so worth of tools that would be nice...

Countdown

So Shaun and Sue begin about a two week countdown tomorrow with it being the first of the month.  I don’t know about all’s you’s guys, but I’m pretty excited for them!  This will be the first baby born to our generation in our immediate family.  They both love children...

So sweet

Last night as I was about to go down in the basement to throw in a load of laundry and do some vacuuming I heard a tap at the back door.  I went to it and there was my neighbor Myrna.  Her son has been in Japan for a few...