3 visions in white... These were the two shots I had in mind for cards this year. Unfortunately, my printer is ill and making subjects appear jaundiced. So for all of you on my Christmas card list --I'm sad to say, you won't be getting one from us. Hope you all have a merry Christmas!

She got the shoe fetish from her mother. But her need to strip the shoe off and massage that foot: this is clearly a Daddy-gene.

Just stand close to each other and try to smile. My kids have already learned to tune me out. We'd certainly get kicked out of a picture studio with this type of behavior.

Reaping the benefits of yet another shopping trip through a goodwill in Indianapolis.

What fell out of the Pleasant Green cookbook... was not a pleasant green recipe at all. Don't you just love finding that strange newspaper clipping recipe that somebody happened to stash away inside a cookbook? This one made me feel a bit like a rockstar, when I admittedly waited until the kids went to bed before cutting into it last night. This recipe has everything I've been looking for in a coconut cake recipe: frozen coconut (because I do not do fresh), the "full-fat" coconut milk (you find in the Asian section of the supermarket), and sour cream (b/c it does something very special when mixed and chilled with sugar, coconut, and vanilla).