Cookie Dough

What's more inspiring than that? (I jest - sort of.) My son loves cookie dough ice cream, he is amazed at the delicious morsels inside the vanilla ice cream, and just picks them out to savor. I was kind of amazed to learn that he didn't know that you could actually just make cookie dough and skip the vanilla ice cream part. (Have I really never made chocolate chip cookies with my boy???)

Well, today, I taught my 6 year old boy how to make chocolate chip cookies and let him eat a bunch of the dough - he was in heaven. And so was I :)

xoxo

Signs of Spring

Every year that I've lived in Boulder, I've been amazed by Spring. After 12+ years of living in Northern California, I had forgotten what a miraculous occasion Spring is. Long, dark months of staying indoors give way to lighter days and tiny green things poking out of the soil, amidst a sea of dead looking plants that couldn't possibly ever grow back - right?

White Flower Farms (in New England) offers a 100 bulb package each summer (that they ship to you in the Fall) and Harlan and I planted 100 bulbs last October - it's so exciting to see them come up!

Weather is calling for snow and rain tonight, but I love seeing my valiant daffodils (in all colors and sizes) lifting their heads up to shine some radiant yellow light on the still brown and gray landscape...

jasimine

is the most beautiful smelling flower in the world. when i first moved to berkeley (in 1990) i was amazed at this miraculous plant - spilling over fences, and perfuming my basement room in a shared house close to telegraph avenue.

my daughter wants a pet rat and she has picked one out - a fawn colored female, actually very pretty - and she wants to name her jasimine... sweet.