snow snow oh beautiful snow. you turn our neighborhood into a winter wonderland! but sure make it difficult in the morning to get my son to school. need to start shoveling at 7am... in order to make it to school on time. yeh!! we did it.
since yesterday was such a busy out of the house day, carpool, stretch class, 45 minute drive to get an evaluation on my carpel tunnel... yes, I have it and yes, I need surgery. that will be interesting since I use my hand for everything... a bit of thrift store hunting, sign up for a new cell phone, then home. totally exhausted.
I was able to make dinner but that is it. let's see it was 3 days from when I did all of that crazy ice removal on my driveway. this is how my fibromyalgia shows up. a few days later, in bouts of pain, exhaustion, depression and the feeling that I am the worst mom out there, can't do anything, and defeated. I know what I need is a super good nights sleep... and a very kind day to myself today.
so after dropping off my son to school, I decided to come home, no zumba. started to tidy up. cleaned the kitchen. organized my canning, and got on the computer. this is where I am now.
my thought for the day, since I have made so much lemon curd, it is time to create the perfect gluten free shortbread/tea cake recipe.
will report back in a bit...
oh nothing like cooking while watching Julie and Julia. one of my most favorite movies and my muse at the moment.
made up my first batch of gluten free shortbread. here the batch at the crumble up point. well, I just took them out of the oven... they smell divine!! can't wait to plate them up with lemon curd and berries! seems that I need to set up a tea party when spring is soon upon us. date tba. I will post my updated perfected fudge #9 and shortbread recipe #10 in the next few hours. until then, time to clean up.
enjoy # 9 and 10.
Hello beautiful sunny cold winter day.
I welcome this bout of sunshine as it shines on the snow and makes everything sparkly.
First day back to school for my son was yesterday. Super hard to wake up in the morning and get ourselves out the door by 7.35am. How easy it was to slide back into vacation mode during the holidays. But we did it and he would have been on time if there hadn't been a fender bender on the hwy on the way to school. It seems that an suv tried to go around the school bus and crashed into it's back bumper instead. What a horrible sight to see so many red lights flashing and a school bus in the middle of the site. No one was hurt, but it certainly reminded me how unsafe our roads are when there is a lot of ice packed down. Yet another reminder of what it is like to live in the mountains....
Since carpel tunnel syndrome has been flaring up, I decided that yoga on Monday was not a good idea, but rather I would start zumba on Tuesdays. What this meant was that I could finally go to the quilters guild meeting on Monday!! This is a huge deal for me. Yet another source of community but also another creative outlet. The hall was filled with women, sewing machines, chatter and so on.... there must have been at least 50 women there of all ages. And I was told that the attendance was low yesterday. whew!! I joined!! Received a few projects to sew to help out the guild, met some new friends, met some friends that I already new, had a fun time and was proud of myself for 1. not taking on too many projects, and 2. that I actually got there and joined. I am sure I will have all sorts of stories to tell!
The other creative component to my Mondays is my knitting circle that I am always too early for and have to leave early from in order to pick up my son on time from school. I dearly love the owner of the shop, Maisie Blue, in Murphys California. She and I always have so much to catch up on. Kym runs the sweetest knitting, yarn, book shop that is my favorite place to spend money. She always has such an amazing variety of good cookbooks, yarns, home décor for me to enjoy.
This is also the place for my monthly book club.
Kym decided to offer another session of a build a block knitting class. Can't wait to start. I really hope to increase my knitting skills this year, including how to read a pattern.... Big challenge for me.
So for me, 2pm ends my day and starts my day of being "MOM". We have a very tight schedule between 2pm and bedtime. Especially since I am to be in bed by 7pm at the latest, 6.30 if possible.
Between playing, running errands, cooking dinner, eating, doing homework, bathing, reading, and watching our 30 minutes of food network together... the time flies by.
Lastly, I choose my special something for the day. Yesterday #7 was fudge. Just seemed to fit the day. We had made it early so I didn't have any pictures. I am sure I will make it again soon... and post some sweet pics to drool over...
Today's special something is this home décor idea.
#8. I have created my kitchen into my creative space, one l shape for cooking and baking and the other for my laptop, jewelry making, drawing and such. I have been focusing on every detail. I didn't want my sink to be cluttered with bottles....
so I put my dish soap into a creamer, my dishwasher soap into a tea pot and my hand soap into a cup.
Super easy, super cute....
Another glorious day in the mountains... until tomorrow,
enjoy!
oh nothing like cooking while watching Julie and Julia. one of my most favorite movies and my muse at the moment.
