Pie=bliss

Friends, I am not going to lie to you. This pie is damn good. I literally just licked the plate. Poor Tom is stuck on the tarmac in Chicago (I think going on 4 hours now) and I am enjoying wine, this insanely good pie and magazines; it does not seem fair. T, pie for breakfast!

Recipe posted in the usual spot.

You know you're in need of maintenance when...

you and your children are having a lovely evening getting ready for bed, you’re reading to the little one and helping the older one spell words, and then the little one rubs your leg lovingly and says, with some disdain I might add, “mommy, legs dirty.”

The one peony my bush produces each year. Oddly enough, last year it was pale pink. Hmm. Anyway,

The one peony my bush produces each year. Oddly enough, last year it was pale pink. Hmm. Anyway, isn’t it gorgeous with those tissue-paper petals and elegant leaves? I just love peonies.