What I've Been Listening To

 Snow made for some long drives to work this week.I was happy to have a book on CD to listen to.The House At Riverton by Kate Morton helped me enjoy my commute rather than made it feel liked I'd wasted a lot of time. The story in some ways reminded me of Downton Abby. It takes place in the same era at a large estate in England. It follows the story a few characters upstairs and downstairs at the great house. I didn't love the characters, but I did enjoy the story enough that I think I'll try this author again sometime.

They Laugh Together

Box Ride

Nap Time

Eggless Chocolate Cake

My beautiful sister has one major flaw. She has an egg intolerance. This gets in the way of baking whatever I want for our big family dinners and celebrations. Short breads, crisps, and many cobblers do not contain eggs and are lovely, but sometimes you just want to make cake. I’ve tried egg replacers and a few vegan recipes, but usually I’m not happy with the results. Then I found wacky cake. It is a delicious eggless cake believed to be created during World War II due to rationing. I made this particular recipe for my book club (yes she is in my book club too) and it was a hit.

Pinterest Challenge

Every year I make a photo book after each kid’s birthday to chronicle the last year. I finished the photo books over a month ago, but was waiting for a big coupon code. They are finally here. Keira turned three last year and besides the pictures I wanted a way to capture a little more of who she was during her year of being two. I saw some fun personalized “likes posters” on Pinterest and decided to make one. I first created this in Microsoft Word and then used Adobe to turn it into a PDF. Instead of a poster this is the first page of her photo book. Once in PDF you can save it to GIF format and upload as a picture to whatever site you use to create your photo books.

This is post is part of YoungHouseLove’s Pinterst Challenge, encouraging everyone to actually create the things on Pinterest and share.

Click Chicks Challenge - Nature

I've had every intention of getting outside with my camera this week, but I missed my chance. It is currently below zero and I've been up with a sick child since 3:00 AM. My "free" time tonight after work will be used to get everyone ready for bed including my self as quickly as possible. I did manage to snap a quick pick of the tree bark in our front yard. It has an interesting texture and if I had more time to with it I'm would have tried playing with the focus a little more.