Ice Cream and Sushi

Yesterday at the market, Shara and I had a very fun time. Too much fun, which lead to bringing home too much ice cream. Normally I only have Edy's Light, or similar, but I love Edy's. She talked me into getting Ben and Jerry's. She was introduced to it in Vermont on our vacation last summer, then had it again at her bubbe's and yesterday saw it at the market and said, "oh mommy, can we get a pint? This is the flavor I had at bubbe's! It's Vermont's finest!" I took a few minutes and noticed they also had the coveted and very difficult to find "Schweddy Balls" so I caved. I told her we couldn't get both the Ben & Jerry's and her ice cream sandwiches, because when it comes down to it, she will forget about it and not eat much, and I'll be the one to finish it anyway!

For dinner we went to Asia steak and sushi.

Our boat!

This morning, after being up for about an hour, Shara finally looked out the window and freaked - "it looks more like the day before Christmas instead of the day before Halloween!"

Lunch

This had me written all over it

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Girls are made of

Cinnamon, spice and everything nice, thats what girls are made of. Snakes and snails and puppy dog tails, thats what witches are made of.

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Yom kippur

Friday, Shara and I picked up liz at her new apartment and we all took the trip to NY for the weekend. It was a beautiful ride, once the traffic cleared. We saw tons of deer and an amazing sunset. We got to jill's at about 7 pm and had a nice dinner of gigantic beans and a really good sausage soup. This was a good night for an early bedtime. We took advantage of not having to set an alarm and both slept until after 7 our so.
After a nice morning visiting, we drove to bubbes, picked her up after a short stop to say hi to aunt susan, who was dropping of a gorgeous challah, and went to shul. Nothing changes. After 40 years it's the same and now shara gets to experience it too. Shara happened to be wonderful during the service. She sat and read Charlotte's Web and didn't complain at all.

After yiskor, bubbe said she wanted to stay longer so shara and I went for a walk down union st. to see my old familiar stomping ground and get something to eat. We ended up going all the way down the street to Gershons and got to see tony and even ean into a couple other familiar faces. We had a lovely lunch on their patio, then realized we were late and walked back to pick bubbe up. Next stop was the bagel bakery, then to bubbes. The rest of the afternoon was spent getting break the fast meal together with a stop to play a game of uno and then some time outside to play catch with our make shift applegrams ball. It worked out great because it may have been hard, but it was also padded.
Shara had fun when all the kids came over and she got to play with all the different cousins. There wasn't much she could actually play with then because they are a bit young still. But we all had a nice time between ear-splitting shreaks from christopher. By the time we left, I think it was after 9:30!

So a late night but shara's been a ball of energy these days, so the trip back didn't bother her. We went on a short side trip to pick apples and then to a bbq place near the highway. It was very good but pretty sweet. The apple picking was interesting. Many of the apples had mold but this place didn't spray, so i'd rather have not so pretty but tastes good. And the mold scrubs off, which I didn't know until I cleaned then later that day. We filled a #20 bag and shara really wanted a hayride so we piled on just before it left and are lucky we didn't bounce right out! I got rather familiar with the man sitting behind me and would have grabbed him if I came any close to falling out. Luckily I didn't.

So the rest of the ride was rather uneventful. Shara watched a movie and I day dreamed. Another quick rush home and then we were off again, this time to oma and jidors to celebrate alan's birthday.

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Food is Beautiful: Cake Experiments

Food is Beautiful: Cake Experiments: Tonight Shara and I baked our favorite chocolate layer cake. This was her first time cracking an egg and most of it got in the bowl. At the ...