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Wordless Wednesday: Calum Was Here

I Moved!

After some technical difficulty, more on my end than on Blogger's end, I have finally moved my blog to the new address.  I can finally start blogging again.  I have so much to share, and now that I can do it in a safe location you will start to see a whole lot of me and the family again!!

Plant Cell

Shianne needed to make a 3-D model of a plant cell for her biology class.  Not being happy with the normal Styrofoam or play-doh models, she talked me into helping her make a cake.  It seemed like an easy idea.  I have decorated many cakes over the years.  I got the bright idea to use fondant for the first time.  I now know that fondant is not my friend.  After much frustration, we finally have a finished cake.  Now we just have to get it to school in one piece!

Trick or Treat

We held our annual Pumpkin Carving party last week.  As always, it was a huge success and the kids had all kinds of fun.  The kids had a "mummy contest" and wrapped each other in TP.  Lamar even got in on the action by letting the little ones wrap him up.

Shianne went to the Fall Dance with her best friend Kathryn.  The girls always have so much fun together.  Shi was mortified that I was a parent chaperone AND I was bringing my camera to take pictures for the school yearbook.  She made sure to stay away from my lens at all costs, but I did get one good one!

Nora Beth was so excited for Halloween to get here.  She wanted to dress like Rapunzel.  I made her dress and she could not wait to wear it.  Calum went as an octopus.  He was not sure why he was in such funny clothes, but it was sure fun to run around and have his extra legs flap.

Calum thought the actual Trick or Treating was lots of fun.  He loves to knock on doors and was so excited to see all the pretty wrappers.  He had no idea what he was getting, but from Nora Beth's reactions he knew it was good stuff and he was not going to let go of his basket!  It was quite a bit of work for him to walk around our neighborhood and by the end of our street he was showing signs of exhaustion.  He headed home with Lamar and I continued on with a very energetic Rapunzel.

Nora Beth was very eager to go through her loot and picked out the 7 pieces she got to keep and happily put the rest in the offering bowl for the Halloween Goblin to take away and leave a gift in exchange.  Calum went to bed with no complaints and immediately fell asleep.

I'm Moving

I'm moving!!   Did that get your attention??  There are lots of great things happening with the Lindsay family and I want to start sharing with all of you again...but in order to do so, I have to move this blog to a new address.  The new domain name has been purchased and the site is being built...within the next week you will have access to our lives again.  I will not publish the new address here, but rather e-mail you the new link.  If you want to continue reading, e-mail me your e-mail address or comment with it below and I will send you the new link.

For Mikey...

I have been quiet on this blog for quite some time.  There have been many reasons for this.  Many of you who know me in real life know the real reasons.  You know what has been going on.  You have been here for the laughs and tears.  You don't need this blog to find out what I am up to.  I have thought of writing posts many times over the past few months, but they just never made it.  Today I am motivated. 

The food blogging world is a tight knit community.  There are many blogs that I follow.  It is as if I invite these bloggers into my kitchen each day.  I get so much inspiration from reading about their food.  I become invested in what they write.  When something happens it ripples through the blogging community quickly.  Jennie from In Jennie's Kitchen suddenly lost her husband last week.  A sudden heart attack.  One minute everything is fine, the next, everything is changed.  In order to show support for Jennie, I made her Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie that was a favorite of her husband.

The point of all this is to draw attention to the ones we love.  Friday was an extremely busy day for me, yet I still found time to make this pie for my family.  Lamar really enjoyed it.  He liked the fact that I took the time to show some extra love.  I served it with a big hug and "I Love You."  The pie was extremely rich, so we only ate a small amount of it.  On Saturday we headed to the Cabin where I shared the rest of the pie with friends, thus spreading the love. 

You never know what happens tomorrow.  All you can do is love the people who are important to you today...and make them a pie.