Hello Vader

ARRRGGHH!

Conversation with my three year old god daughter this morning...

me:"Aunt Erin hurt her back sweetie"
Norah: " I had a bad dream and pirates were poking my back....do you have pirates in your back?"

ARGH Matey...there be pirates in me back!

Oh they make you smile!

A View from the First Officer's chair

Many evenings I will visit the Man Cave and hang out with my honey....I find it oddly amusing that as I sit and chat with my honey, I am being eyeballed by a Billy Bass in a Santa hat.

A Moment

So I was sitting on the back patio contemplating the deep question "what's for dinner?" when I saw a red tailed hawk fly into my backyard and land in the bald cypress tree right in front of me. It was beautiful and amazing and just as fast as he landed, he took off again and was gone. I've never been visited by a red tail in my backyard before...it was neat!

Taste Test

So, it was brought to my attention recently that Tasha resembles Olivia...whatya think?
Either way, cuteness RULES!

KitchenSPLODE!

Soooo, I was really tired last night and decided the kitchen would wait until the morning, but not before I noted to my husband that it looked like a bomb went off. I sleepily stumbled into the kitchen this morning to find comedic evidence of my kitchen bomb. Hope your laugh is as hearty as mine.

Nostalgia in the kitchen

So one of our favorite meals for dinner is breakfast!
I had a craving this week and a pint of blueberries just screaming to jump into some pancake batter. I had promised the hubster I would make a big breakfast spread and that it was!
Blueberry pancakes, homemade biscuits and gravy, fruit salad, bacon and scrambled eggs. YUMMY!
I have always used the same recipe for pancakes as long as I have been cooking and as I took my cookbook out to retrieve the recipe I was hit with a waive of nostalgia. This was my very first cook book that I got for Christmas when I was about 8 or 9 years old.



I remember pouring over the recipes, excited to try each and every one and I think I did. I was always so pleased with myself as a young cook as I would measure and pour and mix and blend.
As an adult, I love to cook and even more, love to feed people. I know this desire was heavily influenced by all the many years I watched mama in the kitchen as she prepared meals for our family just about every night. There may have been chaos in the rest of our lives, but there was always dinner on the table and and for many years, we were all at the table together to enjoy her culinary creations.
I have managed to find many of the most coveted family recipes by both mama and my memaw and cherish them. I love that cooking bring me so much joy!