Brian and I have both been burning the candle on both ends as well as at a couple points in the middle lately, so when we were invited to brunch with friends to meet their new baby, we needed something to bring that was delicious and, more importantly, easy to make. Looking around the kitchen the morning of, I saw the makings of blood orange apple buckle and that’s pretty good luck. [Read more…]
mother’s day
It feels like I’ve been doing a lot of mothering lately, both of the growing baby living inside me, and my daughter who’s about to turn four. When she was a toddler things were in some ways easier–she just went with the flow–but now there are tough questions about life and death, how things work, and what things are. There are a lot of flat out “No’s,” whereas before there were so few, and even those were half-hearted. So it’s nice that this Mother’s Day, my third, we’re celebrating. There was a tear-inducing card about the things my daughter likes to do with me (making cake, riding the bus, and eating breakfast among them) and a surprise dinner out with my husband (complete with babysitter–thanks LMK). [Read more…]