I hope you
all had a nice weekend. We got to celebrate Eric’s birthday. So fun! Eric spent all day on Saturday building a bench - for real. He's never done anything like that before, and it was perfect! I stayed
up super late on Saturday night (Sunday morning, actually) baking his requested
brownie cake with mocha ganache. And got up way early on Sunday to prepare our
home for almost 20 guests. Four of whom were held up by Eric's fabulous bench. That’s the biggest party we’ve hosted in our home in
a long time. And it was so great to be able to do that again. We served
biscuits and gravy and apple muffins, all from scratch, with the aforementioned
time-intensive cake for dessert (also from scratch). Friends and neighbors and classmates joined us.
Today,
Eric took the day off to come to my swearing in ceremony. We got dressed up,
went to the courthouse, and followed up the ceremony with a stop at one of our
favorite coffee shops before a long walk home. I started packaging things for
this weekend’s craft fair and then we went out for mussels (for the second day
in a row). Now I’m back at craft fair prep, probably until the wee hours of the
morning.
