This website – Top Secret Recipes.  You have to buy some recipes but they are quite cheap but there are plenty of FREE recipes on this site as well! 

My lovely and generous friends here in Spain who threw me a baby shower last Saturday.  They went to a lot of trouble to plan a fun luncheon to help me welcome Tripp to Spain.

Doesn’t my friend, Rena make the cutest cakes?

Getting SUPER excited for Tripp’s first Christmas!

Borrowing a friend’s mixer to do some batch cooking.  I would love to have one of these but it’s not in the budget right now.  Instead a friend let me borrow hers to whip up 12 batches of pizza crust, 4 batches of pie crust, 2 batches of chocolate chip cookie dough and enough dough to make a few dozen bagels. 

Decorating the Christmas tree – a little early but it makes me happy every time I look at it!  And now there’s one less thing to do after Tripp arrives in roughly 18 days!