The Phoenix: Epicuriousmothering Rising

I made a cake, a perfect, light fluffy, rich, beautiful vanilla sheet cake from my mother-in-laws chocolate sheet cake recipe (that I've de-chocolated) for my family a few nights ago.  I set it outside to cool and in fact, if froze and in other fact, I forgot about it until it was far too late to eat.  I woke up the next morning looking at that cake thinking, Grrr.  The whole point was that it was supposed to be dessert for my family and guests . . . it was supposed to make us all happy and my nephew and his girlfriend and my sister to all feel special and loved and all the good things special desserts make us feel.  Only, I forgot about it.  And none of that happened.  It was morning.  The cake was not even frosted and I had a meeting to go to and my nephew was leaving soon.  It was breakfast time.  And so what did I do? I frosted that baby.  Took it to my morning meeting and cut it into wide pieces and served it, instead of the...

Along with our 40 days of yoga, we started choosing an Intention for the month.  One for your mind, one for your body, and one for your spirit.  It's actually been pretty amazing and in a lot of ways as mind bending as physically doing yoga.  Its made me slow down and examine where I have weaknesses and help me really look at them and see if I can fix them or if I can start fixing them. For the last year and a half at the end of each month, I look over what's going on and where I need to be better or where I'm struggling and I try to focus my Intentions on helping me either beat it or fix it or at least acknowledge it.  So as it's the last day of the month, I'm really thinking a lot about what I want to work on this month.  Since John's been laid off, my Intentions have been going down the road of just get your butt out of bed and do something for someone else--even it's making breakfast.  Don't eat chips before breakfast . . . or if you must, stick to...