yeah well, for an hour and a half or so. The boys are out at a Daddy playgroup, so I'm bumping around the house by myself for a bit.

( organizing old photos, zzz )

A perk of cookieman's job at the Uni is that he receives emails informing him of upcoming cultural events, exhibitions, and student projects. While the first two can be hit or miss (though always welcome imo- this town is hardly a smorgasbord of intellectual stimulation), the student projects can be quirky and often have the added element of a ( Read more... )

We had our little home birthday party for the dude today. Only a couple of the girls from our other baby group were able to make it (as mentioned before, our prenatal group already had a joint party last weekend) so the majority of people attending were adult friends of ours. We hadn't seen a few of them for a while, so it was a good excuse to ( Read more... )

The dude's second birthday party is on Sunday. On his birthday, last weekend, we took part in a shared birthday party elsewhere, with all of the babies from our pre-natal group. I thought it would be nice to have a smaller one at home, as well, so we could invite some of our friends around (plus a couple of other baby friends who aren't in the ( Read more... )

The internet is chock full of people who can not, or refuse to, read recipes. I know I have bitched about this before, but by GOD why would you take a cake recipe, replace all the acids with bases, chuck a box of *something* in "because it was sitting in the cupboard", then give the recipe 1 star because the cake didn't rise and it tasted like ( Read more... )

I have a couple of occasions to make cut-out cookies for over the next week (Valentine's, plus a party at the end of the week.) Is it possible to freeze the dough successfully? I could also make the cookies themselves and freeze them, but I think the end result wouldn't be as good ( Read more... )