i want a new oven range!

as proud as i am of our two brave little toaster ovens, i'm wishing on every evening star for a new fully functioning, baker-friendly gas oven range!! this baking on itty bitty trays in itty bitty ovens might make for a colorful story, but it surely does NOT make for a happy baker who uses time effectively & efficiently!! looking forward to welcoming a glorious new addition to our family of appliances - soon, please, universe!!

last village market

my heart says - GO! making pumpkin sliders, regular chocolate whoopies, crackers. whatever doesn't sell will still be fine on monday for the cafe. go out in a "best practices" blaze, setting up even bigger & better success in springsummerfall 2012!!

pumpkin whoopie sliders delivered

hard to let them go. could so easily down so many in an incredibly short time. and, yes - they really ARE even better the next day!

hiatus

took a bit of a hiatus from late august thru mid-october. feeling tender over those months, with so many "ten years ago" dates connected to mom's passing. not sad or even bittersweet - tender.

good to be back after a remarkable six weeks, an even more incredible ten years. the ethereal version of the world's biggest & best roller coasters & merry-go-rounds & ferris wheels & fire works all rolled into a single SPECTACULAR!!! best way to describe the past ten years, starting with that unforgettable day two weeks after mom was reunited with her o! best beloved and i got the boot out of bisys literally hours after returning - as demanded - from family leave. even then, within an hour of being shown the door, i suspected that mom had a fine hand in shaking the dust of the corporate world off my feet. that woman always did think i had bigger fish to fry & i'd realized that by the time the car got to willow grove. and nothing that's happened over the past ten years has made me think otherwise.

am back from a blogging hiatus & am rarin' to go with the next whatever. the best is yet to come!