Random Thoughts Saturday

My recipe of the week is a Sponge Cake that will turn into Blackberry Jam Cake tomorrow for my birthday party with my family. It is sad that I made a special request to make my own birthday cake. But, hey it was fun. I got to whip egg whites and everything.

This last week we've had beautiful fall weather and spent almost every day outside. Today it was a bike ride to the park through beautiful fall leaves. Sadly that ends on Monday with a massive storm.

I am just starting to think about Christmas shopping and I want to run the other way. I never truly appreciated the task my mother undertook each year to buy presents for six kids that all appeared perfectly fair, and were exactly what would fulfill the wildest Christmas dreams of each and every one. If you don't already know it, my mother is a saint.

I just finished reading the book Born to Run. If you like to run you will love this book. I hate running and was still amazed, impressed, and am contemplating, thinking about the possibility of running. If you know me that is saying a lot.

My next book is Educating Esme. It is a memoir of a first year teacher in inner-city Chicago. Should be interesting.

Any ideas what to get my kids for Christmas?

My kids are singing "A Spoonful of Sugar" in the bathtub and it makes me laugh.

I have become addicted to the internet radio Pandora.