French Toast!

Well, it definitely seems like May has been the busiest month so far this year... job fairs, interviews, my car breaking down, chaperoning high school kids in Yosemite, my short story contest May 31 deadline, Jonathan's upcoming recital (and friends and family coming to town!!) ...

Lately I've been thinking a lot about my grandma, who recently fractured her hip and is now going through recovery. She definitely puts life in perspective - if I can be even half of what she is when I'm her age, I'll know I accomplished something amazing with my life. She is smarter than most people I know, and she's so warm and generous.. when you're around her you simply feel like life is better.

Whenever I'd stay at her house as a kid, she'd always make the best breakfasts - pancakes, waffles, anything! While I can never cook as well as she does, this was my attempt at a Nana-style, amazing, sweet breakfast feast! :)







French toast with spinach, tomato and bell pepper scramble (and turkey sausage!)

Let's bring portrait painting back, please

I woke up early today & couldn't fall back asleep. Then I suddenly had the urge to watch Marie Antoinette again. What a great movie!

A few things:

1) Kirsten Dunst cannot act. (Shocking, I know!) She's great with unspoken emotions, facial expressions, etc, but as soon as she opens her mouth it feels forced. Maybe they should've made her have an accent.

2) I've found that I love looking up what lines from "historical" movies are direct quotes from that time period. If I was going to make a historical movie, I would try to get as many of these as I could.

3) Jonathan said that, apparently, on the day the Bastille fell, all Louis XVI wrote in his journal was "Went hunting today. Nothing."

4) I definitely think we need to bring back the custom of making portraits of people and giant paintings of historical events. Look at how awesome this is!



(Marie Antoinette with her children when the mob stormed the palace.)

And this one is a sketch that someone made while Marie Antoinette was waiting for the guillotine in 1793! Crazy. Doesn't that make you want to sketch anything & everything? Maybe 200 years later people will still look at it.