Bittersweet
Today is a bittersweet day. Exactly 6 years, 2 weeks ago today I began working fulltime from home. It was a blessing to be able to do things with my children throughout the years that many working moms are unable to do, and not have to put them into daycare. The making of breakfast, the afterschools snacks. The trips to the park on a spring afternoon. The doctors and dentist appointment in the not-so-busy morning hours. The summers at the lake. The drive to and from camp. Attending every single soccer practice and game, baseball practice and game, dance class, dance camps, shows, and school parties. The days snuggled up on the couch when they don't feel good. I have been blessed

Cookie Pops
This past Saturday was Hunter's last soccer game, and we were signed up for snacks. You know me - gotta out do myself everytime. Last summer for baseball I made cake pops that looked like little baseballs. For soccer, I decided to make cookie pops that were both soccer and Halloween themed, since it's only 1 week before Halloween.

Per Brian's request!
Ever since Brian has realized how much I enjoy baking, his sweet tooth as grown considerably. Last week I heard him say, "I sure am craving some sugar cookies". Probably not a good thing to say in our house, when my craze lately has been sugar cookies and figuring out the best frosting techniques, etc. I had just picked up a pumpkin cookie cutter, so I went to town - whipping up the dough, cooling, rolling, cooling, cutting, cooling, and baking. That's the hard part for me - it's like doing laundry. You have to wait then work, wait then work, etc. It's a long drawn out process. It's the frosting that I enjoy the most, as it lets me be creative. This has been my only creative

Greenbluff & Pumpkins
Every year we get together with our friends and head up to Greenbluff. Our friends own property up there, so we first meet there, which is right down the road from Seimer's Farm. We then head up to Seimer's to get our pumpkins. This year the kids and I indulged in caramel apples too - yum! We all try to get family pictures while up there. Then we head back to the house to carve, eat chili, roast marshmellows, and just enjoy the company of others.

Cherry Pie Pops
Once again, I'm stretching my knowledge and limits with new baking. Today I embarked on a pie pop adventure - CHERRY pie pops. We're having our annual Pumpkin Carving Party and Chili feed tomorrow with our good friends and family, so decided these would be perfect - and easy. Boy was I wrong...These little buggers were hard! First I ended up making the dough too small, and the cherry filling too big. Once I figured out that I needed more dough and less filling, they worked much better and actually starting turning out quite well. I guess I was just really frustrated that the whole first batch was wasted. Okay - not wasted - we ended up eating them all. But they certainly weren'