Dec 132010
 

If the Advent calendar didn’t exist as it does — so prominently on the dining room wall — we wouldn’t have done jack today. A frigid Snow Day. A hard day in itself. But the Advent calendar exists specifically for these reasons. So, we tackled a difficult activity.

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Bake Cupcakes

Baking

And yes we stayed in our jammies all day. Snow Day + one of my regular days off from the office = kickin’ it pajama style.

The boys made them — seven of them. I just broke the eggs. So they’re lumpy and imperfect, which someone told me is perfect in itself. We’ll each eat one after supper tonight.

I froze to death capturing the annual cupcake in the snow picture. I used my heart bokeh filter, which isn’t overtly obvious — until you look a bit closer — and you can see love everywhere, even falling from the sky.

Cupcakes with Love

Love Falls from the Sky

Happy Birthday, Munchkin. Always in my heart.



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Dec 132009
 

It’s raining today. Appropriate.

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Out

We made these cupcakes yesterday. I shared them here, in their finished state, for those who maybe don’t know our story. It would have helped if I had written a long, eloquent post about the Munchkin, her birth and our open adoption but today’s post space at Chronicles was taken up by the Primal Wound blog tour. Possibly appropriate but definitely heart-wrenching. Suffice it to know that six years ago I gave birth to the most amazing girl this world has ever known.

I’m off to email these shots to her. She’s enjoying Disney World today. I hope to catch some of the boys devouring their cupcakes later tonight and send those off as well. For now, we’re off to BigBrother’s Christmas program. Our lives seem so separate in paragraphs like these but, at the same time, so closely tied together.

Happy Birthday, Munchkin. Forever in my heart.






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