Ewwww....... that bites!

Oh. My. Goodness.
(My gingerbread house fell...... nay, crumbled apart.)



Well, If at first you don't succeed.......



Take a day to brood over it and then start all over again!




But this time,
use a recipe called......."Humidity Proof Gingerbread."

Dang straight.

I smell..... Gingerbread!

Yeah! It's that time of year again. My favorite time of year.

LOVE love Love Fall.

Last weekend I started my gingerbread entry for this years National Grove Park Inn Gingerbread Competition. This will be my fifth year entering this competition. However......ah, I've never won.....or even come close for that matter. But who cares...Ha HAaH!

So in the spirit of this occasion I've decided to revisit my gingerbread creations of old (made completely of edible ingredients):

2004 - The Barn

This was my first ever gingerbread attempt.





2005 - The North Pole Conservatory (and my fav.)





2006 - The Nativity.






2007 - The Spirit of Christmas.... peace, love, & joy.






2008 - well...... I won't tell what it is, but I'll give a sneak peak....










Are you ready?





















Ta Daaaa!

I know it doesn't look like much.... but hopefully it will morph into the beautiful image that I have in my mind's eye.
(and yes, my gingerbread house pieces are in a bathroom, but...... I have to keep the cats from doing what they do so very well...... DESTRUCTION!)

Wallowing......

Wow, Where have I been? I think I've been stuck.... wallowing. You know.... because this happened.



Yes that's right. Five positive pregnancy tests. But when I went to the Doctor a week later, I took another test that was negative. They took my blood and told me they would call back. A positive Hcg amount needs to be at a level 10, but when they called me, I was at a level 9. Sucks. So what had been..... was going away.

So therefore, I've been a bit ......eehhh.

So...... in the light of our sad news, my grief for Anna which is ever so near, resurfaces. I know many may not understand, but I felt the need to remember her, to memorialize her again, and so I had a little more added to her memorial tattoo on my back just behind my heart where she is safe. And this is the before and after.....(so sorry Mama!)

Before:


After:


So Much Better!

I wanted the "with Grace" because I want to be with Anna Grace, I want be surrounded by God's Grace, and I want to live my life with grace.

I also found this song, rather by accident. It was on the album of a song that was listed as a good bellydance song on iTunes. I downloaded the entire album and listened to it one rainy day. When I first heard the man speaking I didn't pay much attention to what he was saying, but then I caught some of the words. It's so beautiful. And it speaks to me.

Boomp3.com

And then, Marc and I went to the Outer Banks. We had a wonderful time! It's so beautiful there.






I have never seen such beach erosion! The wind was crazy!


We went with his family:

That's me at the end all bundled up because it was COLD!

And we made some new friends....


Crabs are so cute!!!!

Even the sky was smiling!

There is only one road that travels down the Outer Banks. And on this road just happened to be two signs, one on the way down and one on the way back up the coast.

How

amazing

that

they

would

read:





Yea......me too.