And I thought about years; how they take so long and they go so fast.

 So.  It's been a while.  This is what I've been working on for the last year and a half or so: 

Not the costumes, the children.  I did make the costumes, but that's beside the point.  Those only took up a couple of days.  The children, on the other hand, take up all sorts of time . . . especially the smallest one.  She's getting more independent all the time, but she still smiles ecstatically when I walk in the room . . . it is probably a ploy to keep me paying attention to her, but it's still irresistible. 

See how cute that is?  Ooooh, and look at this one: 

Who can resist that sort of a face?  I sure can't.  So I have neglected this blog shamefully. 

It's not that I haven't been cooking, because I have.  But I just haven't taken the time to write anything down.  Well, this morning I got up and made crepes for my daughter's birthday breakfast and I decided that I should put it up on the blog.  Whee!  So I took some beautiful pictures and got on to type up a post and wrote all the preceding and then decided I should check and see if we had already posted about crepes.  And we have.  :(  So I guess I won't retype in the recipe.  But here's a new picture: