Entries from September 2008

September 6, 2008

Wagon Wheel Cookies

As per a special request regarding an older post,  I present to you the recipe for Wagon Wheel Cookies.
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup melted shortening
4 squares baking chocolate, melted
2 cups sifted flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
powdered sugar

Beat eggs; add sugar and vanilla. Blend in shortening and melted chocolate.  Sift [...]

September 4, 2008

Please Stroke My Ego… or Fight Fight Fight!

Ok, first I will admit that I’m feeling a little insecure because people are reading this here blog, but only a few wonderful folks have been commenting of late.  Did I do something wrong?  Did I push out my writing ability along with the afterbirth?  What up?
In a shameless attempt to get more attention/feedback I [...]

September 3, 2008

Labor Was Fun!

Ok, I am a freak.
I went to a barbeque at a friend of a friend’s house during which we were the token lesbians with kids, but not at all the token lesbians.  I’ve been working so diligently at meeting gay parents that I’m used to being one of a crowd of gay parents.  So this [...]

September 2, 2008

Monkey Needs to Eat

I’m sure you have a lot of blog reading to catch up on after the long weekend, so I’ll keep this short and sweet.
We were walking home from brunch during which our friends had given a cute stuffed monkey to Trucker as a gift. Ann turned to Cakie and said, “We have to go.” [...]