My little friends have returned.
This time, I am going straight for the peanut butter-laced kill.
[and I almost killed my thumb in the implementation of the deathtrap]
happy birthday ben!
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Today is Ben's birthday. Yay!
He decided he wanted a giant cookie instead of a cake, so I used this recipe to create the COOKIE MONSTER
It's hard to tell the size of this thing, but it is sitting on a striped placemat. So, the entire recipe makes a giant cookie about the size of a large dinner plate.
(Don't tell me I'm the only one who has ever wanted to make one giant cookie out of an entire batch of dough.)
Let me tell you that cake decorating is HARDER than it looks!!!
The birthday boy requested ham for his special dinner (sick of all the veg meals I have been feeding him) so I baked a ham for the first time ever. Seriously, I have never cooked meat other than fish or chicken.
And oh my goodness it was so easy! I felt like Betty Crocker and it was awesome. I modified this recipe for sugarcane baked ham with spiced apples (downsizing to a small ham, omitting the sugarcane sticks) and the glaze was faaabulous. Kind of like a sweet caramelized ginger snap. If you ever have to bake a ham, this is the recipe to use, seriously.
I mean, look how excited it makes people:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN!
i loooove you :)
wouldn't you think i'm the girl
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Happy November!
and Election Day--did you vote??
Fall is officially dying. The trees are pretty much bare and there is frost on the ground in the morning.
I feel almost desperately sad, like I didn't spend enough time outside while the trees were in full blast and the weather was gorgeous, and now it's too late.
But I am also super excited for the holidays, and going home for vacation! Thanksgiving! Christmas! New Years! My favorites!
At the same time, I'm kind of freaking out because since when is it time for the holidays??!! Gah!
Maybe all these conflicting emotions are the reason why I have been struggling to get out of bed in the mornings this week...
Or maybe it is post-festivity letdown from a great Halloween weekend.
Some years I am all gung-ho for Halloween, and some years I let it slip by.
This year might have been low key, but when I decided to be "Ariel with legs" (washed up on the beach version--yes I always work the red hair thing), Ben decided to be "Ariel without legs." And I couldn't let the opportunity pass:
All I can say is that there is a true Disney Princess inside every little girl AND boy.
(And with long hair, my boyfriend may be prettier than me.)