Making our birthday cakes
Made 7UP cake and chocolate cakes with Meggie for our upcoming birthday party.
Meggie makes cake
Ivy makes cake
Birthday Pancakes
Made birthday pancakes for myself for my birthday breakfast. I’m 45!
Birthday Pancakes
New Year’s Day Breakfast
Small gathering for New Year’s Day–my tradition of serving breakfast! We made waffles, mini omelets containing mushrooms and swiss cheese, hash browns, biscuits, soy bacon, sausage, and fruit. Mom, Jeaux, and Lindsay came.
New Year’s Breakfast!
Mom, Jeaux, Lindsay at New Year’s
Second waffle for New Year’s
Linds enjoying the pillows
Christmas Eve Meal with Family
Sister Lindsay and brother-in-law Mike were in town for the holidays so I had them over for Christmas Eve with Mom and Jeaux. Yummy dinner, but everything was kind of on the cold side. Bad management.
Holiday cookies
Homemade tomato soup
Scalloped Potatoes Jeaux made
Cornbread Jeaux made
Garlic mushrooms!
Chicken Mom brought
Dessert plate! One of everything.
Christmas Eve group
Desserts and a Quiche made ahead for Christmas Eve dinner
I made four types of cookies, one gingerbread roll (with Jeaux’s help), and a Christmas quiche for Christmas Eve!
Christmas Swirl Cookies
Peanut Butter Kisses
Snowball Cookies
Espresso Crinkle Cookies
Gingerbread Roll w/ Maple Cinnamon Frosting
Broccoli Cheese Quiche
Our food from Mr. Dunderbak’s
We found a place that sold potato pancakes and Jeaux and I had some lovely food from Mr. Dunderbak’s.
Potato pancakes from Dunderbak’s
Thanksgiving 2022
Had Mom and Jeaux over for Thanksgiving! Jeaux helped make all the food. Mom brought turkey and ham for the non-vegetarians. We had pie afterwards and Mom was knocked out.
Thanksgiving food
My Thanksgiving plate
Jeaux & Mom eating Thanksgiving dinner
Mom knocked out by food
Evaporated Milk Pancakes
Had leftover evaporated milk from making pie, so I decided to make a batch of pancakes with it!
Pancakes made with evaporated milk
Halloween Party 2022
I finally got to have a Halloween party again. 🙂 Friends came! I was dressed as Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe.
Halloween desserts
Halloween desserts
My Lapis Lazuli costume
My Lapis Lazuli costume
Kari with Pumpkin
Meggie as Vanellope
Katelyn as a butterfly
Dare as Dipper
Benjamin as Luigi
Rachael in faire garb
Michael in faire garb
Rina in a flower outfit
Jeaux as Jamie
Meg with pumpkin roll
Kari with dessert
Jeaux and Dare
Me at my party
Me with Meg
Jeaux as Jamie
Party group
Meggie & Dare
Fifth Day in New York with Jeaux!
Our fifth day in the city included Strand indie bookstore (where Jeaux found a copy of my book on the shelf!), coffee with my coworker Deepa, pizza with my friend Amin, and a rooftop dinner at Peak (where we also got to go out onto the Edge), and a New York cheesecake for Jeaux from Ferrara’s!
Outside Strand
Inside Strand
My book at Strand
My book on the shelf at Strand
Coffee with Deepa
Meeting Amin at Marta
Jeaux at Peak
Ivy at Peak
My daiquiri at Peak
Jeaux & Ivy at Peak
View at Peak
Strawberry Daiquiri at Peak
Farm Egg at Peak
Squash at Peak
Ferro at Peak
At the Edge
At the Edge
At the Edge
At the Edge
At the Edge
At the Edge
At the Edge
Jeaux’s NY cheesecake
Cookie in a hoodie
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