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Fondant Bow Cake

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Not only was this my third fondant cake, but it was my first fruit filled cake. I made this cake for my niece’s first birthday. By request they wanted me to make something with vanilla cream, strawberries, and bananas. It was a little daunting to make fresh fruit filling in advance with fondant, as […]

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Charlotte’s Wall Mural…Remodeling continues

Posted by trisha haas on

As you know over here in my house we have been doing some lifestyle household remodeling upgrades. Or redecorating rather. Now that I have moved on mostly from the living room (atleast I will if my DH every gets the shelf I bought on the wall), we are now onto (into?) Charlotte’s room. Yesterday, I...

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One bad day out of every Seven-hundred isn’t that bad.

Posted by trisha haas on

Standing on the edge of the water the past few months has caused me some great reflection. As my toe touches the sand, now dotted with black specs, no doubt remnants of the oil disaster, I can’t help but feel lucky; blessed. Blessed you say? Blessed for what? The brackish water, the industry falling apart,...

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Im starting to wonder if this is actually chicken pox. (pictures)

Posted by trisha haas on

Like I said, back on Tuesday I noticed two spots on her upper back, scabbed over, and thought they were some nasty spider bites. Then Friday morning, I found a few on her shoulder and lower back (the white is dried Benadryl) but it wasn’t till I saw a scab in her eye, which I...

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Charlotte had an “incident” at school.

Posted by trisha haas on

Sigh. Day #3 and she came home with this: I cannot tell you how hurt her feelings were. And the worst part is she insisted she did nothing wrong. She couldn’t articulate to me what rule she broke or what happened, which means she didn’t understand herself.  Every day the teacher puts a system on...

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