Dark Chocolate Truffle Cake

New Christmas grand-baby boy Rowan, with sweet big sister Lela.

Gluten Free Pastrami Reuben Rollups

So yah, it's been awhile since I've had the luxury of writing on my blog. All of my reasons were/are legitimate. My husband and my son were having health issues that just needed to be firmly interacted with on many different levels. So that being said, things picked up to very positive levels starting in the new year for both of them, and me.

We even downsized our living quarters from a three bedroom (one bedroom was the catch all for everything!) to a two bedroom in a completely new community. It even has a bigger and up to date kitchen! So that means I can cook in style. I have about triple the counter space, drawers and cupboards with a huge pantry. I can actually have ALL of my equipment and groceries in the same room, not spread out between closets and spaces in a wild variety of places. I no longer have to open a drawer, open the cupboard door directly under it to support the drawer, place a jelly roll pan onto the open drawer, and then place a cookie rack on top of that for cooling the goodies! The problem with this setup however is that if someone came into the kitchen while I was in there working and even "breezed" by these elaborate setups, they could and would disassemble, falling to the floor and loosing everything! Quite frustrating. Picture me screaming into a paper bag!