celebrate: week 5
Coming up this week: 27: Chocolate Cake Day and Thomas Crapper Day and International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. – Audrey Hepburn Flourless Chocolate Cake Chocolate Bundt Cake Flourless Chocolate Cake with
wasabi tape.
I love all of these pretty tapes!
celebrate: week 4
Coming up this week: 20: National Cheese Lover’s Day and National Buttercrunch Day and Penguin Awareness Day How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? – Charles de Gaulle Southern Mac and Cheese Wisconsin Cheese Soup 21: National Hugging Day and National Granola Bar Day and National
candy canes.
Christmas is over, but I still like this photo!
she’ll be a scottie.
Despite not having all of her acceptances in, Chloe made the big step and committed to attending Agnes Scott for college. I’m very excited for her!!
celebrate: week 3
Coming up this week: 13: Frisbee Invented and National Rubber Ducky Day and National Peach Melba Day 14: National Dress Up Your Pet Day and National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day National Dress Up Your Pet Day 15: National Strawberry Ice Cream Day and National Hat Day and National Bagel Day Now, let’s forget our troubles
harmony.
We celebrated Christmas a day early since Rob headed off to Florida. So Christmas Day for us was super lo-key. As Chinese seems to be a tradition for many, we went to the aptly named Harmony… a *vegetarian* restaurant that we’ve been patronizing since beofre Chloe was born!!
celebrate: week 2
Coming up this week: 6: Three King’s Day and National Shortbread Day and Bean Day and Fruitcake Toss Day Take down the tree Make king cake National Shortbread Day National Bean Day: Why It’s Jan. 6 7: Old Rock Day and International Programmers’ Day and National Tempura Day โLeave no stone unturned.โ – Euripides quotes
pretty pens.
I do love my pens of many colors!
drinking straws.
Yesterday was “National Drinking Straw Day”. I bought these straws over a decade ago for “art” projects with the kids … we then moved to paper straws and now reusable ones … not sure what to do with these relics.
planning.
I’ve started many planners over the years. But, like most everything else, keeping it up becomes just another chore for me to get done each day. One more thing to check off of the to do list. This year, I’m approaching it a bit differently to see if I can keep with it. I’m turning
new year, new resolutions.
Resolutions, resolutions. Every years starts with grand plans, then real life gets in the way. This year, I’m back to the start…the start of my Happiness Project. With all of the changes in the past few years (new schools, new jobs, new homes), it is time once again for me to get organized. Hopefully this
books in 2019
Another year, another long list! My goal was 120 for the year, and I got to 122 (plus three or four books that I’ve almost finished and will count for 2020 …. Having “rediscovered” my Kindle in 2018 — a now 5 year old Kindle Fire, not our our fist one — and the CLAMS
GBK Gwyneth