Earlier this week I came down with some virus. It was horrible. I hadn't been this sick in a long time. I even missed two days of work. So Scott wouldn't catch my germs and listen to me coughing all night he had been sleeping in the guest room. Meadow only had me to wake up in the morning.  Meadow and I had breakfast while Scott slept. I love sleeping in. Olive's birthday party was today. Meadow picked out a cupcake picture to color for her. She was really excited to color the cherry red. Then was really excited to color the whole thing red. She kept saying, "Olive is going to love this!" She's also getting better at staying in the lines. She does the same thing on an iPad coloring game. I'm still not feeling great after being sick. Meadow and I read books in bed. I came up with a meal list for the week. I was super proud of using so many items that we had laying around the kitchen. Every week I take inventory on all...

We have been doing a really awesome job of skipping the grocery store and making meals from what we already have. When Emma suggested doing a Mother's Day brunch together we had to pick up a few extra things. To the farmer's market!

I decided to have a birthday party at our place since Meadow can't go out and we have friends with kids. For some reason I thought making pizza for a bunch of friends was a great idea.  After making one successful batch of dough the recently repaired Kitchenaid mixer went kaput again. I had to knead the rest by hand.  While Scott worked on the pizza dough I started baking the birthday boys cake. This year he requested chocolate cake with berry filling. Because...why not? Meadow requested a mesh thingy with banana to hold her over while we baked.  Somewhere in here our hand mixer also broke, so I went out and bought a new one.  I was worried I had over-baked it, but Scott assured me it would be fine.   On Scott's actual birthday he requested crepes for breakfast.   I am no match to Scott's crepe making skills. Mine were more like tortillas. They were basically exactly like mine ...