Monthly Archive: December 2010
December 6
It’s my birthday and I am blogging as a 33 year old woman who has had her fill of cake today. I planned my birthday celebrations around food (and family) and I declare this a very successful birthday indeed!
Lunch was spent at the Green Gateau in Lincoln because they have, hands-down, the best roasted red pepper soup I’ve ever put in my mouth. It is divine. Dessert, a slice of apricot torte, was a winner as well. But I went for the soup—and the company, my folks!—and left a happy birthday girl.
Dinner was centered around dessert. Tonight the fam met up with my mother and father-in-law at Granite City because the restaurant serves a chocolate cake that is out of this world. It’s got a million layers of chocolate cake and chocolate frosting, all set on a layer of whipped cream with—this is best part—a rich butter whiskey sauce you pour over the top. Oh goodness gracious. Happy birthday indeed.
Thanks to my sweet family for loving me so much they indulge my gastronomical whims. I love you guys!
December 5
One of my favorite places on earth: the library.
Photo of Mommy by Livia Raine. (Perhaps Liv should join the DPP next year!) I’m thinking I look kind of old on this last day of being 32. It’s good for a photographer to put a pic of herself online every so often, keeps her humble. Or something like that. At the very least, it’s good to be on the lens end of a camera, even one wielded by a six-year-old in the library.
December 4
This image accurately depicts life in the Tredway household today. Livia was up in the night with a stomachache and the remainders of a cold. Jeremy was up most of the night with a whopping head cold and now it seems to have turned into something a little more flu-like with fever and chills.
It’s been a couch-focused Saturday with plenty of television consumption.
But the Christmas trees have all been trimmed, the December Photo Project is rolling along beautifully, and staying at home for a day is a good deal for my little family. Let’s hope everyone feels better tomorrow.
One more thing. GO BIG RED! Let’s win that Big XII title tonight.