Nothing Every Day

Amity and I spent today at our dear friend Tim and Betony's house. Betony is an all around amazingly awesome woman, who inspires me beyond words in both motherhood and artistically. She also is a fabulous cook to add to her many talents and today we spent time in her kitchen, making it smell wonderful with homemade salsa she is going to can. When we pulled up, Bet texted me to let me know that I better come in the front door. There is a very important birthday party happening in front of the back one. Here's little Lucy with her whole birthday set up for none other than the sweet bear you see propped up with all of his friends. They were enjoying juice and crab apples. She is so stinking adorable! We realized cooking and canning before having lunch would only make us crabby patties and so we started by having some devine, light sandwiches out on the front porch. It's hard to believe that Harriet's birthday is just over a month away ...

I've contemplated starting a new tradition with Amity: Baking Wednesdays. The idea being that Amity, who is in love with food and doing fun and messy things, and I can share some good time together doing something I love and sometimes share that time with friends baking things at our house or theirs. Our first attempt at this tradition was this afternoon as we made homemade zucchini bread! It smells scrumptious and as you can see from the pictures left Amity's mouth watering all over the place! While it was baking, Amity was quite entertained by Tweaz who kept wandering around the kitchen meowing at the top of his lungs... of course... She was so hungry in fact, that she tried to see just how much of her rattle would fit into her mouth! It was quite hilarious! And then... the zucchini bread was done! { Baking Wednesday Day 1: Success! }