Shimelle's prompt today for Blogging for Scrapbookers prompted a bit of exploring for me. I was frankly surprised to see that I've been blogging since June 2005 and have written almost 500 posts. Amazing. Shimelle asked us to look back to a year ago and see what we were blogging about. It's a great idea and the first prompt I came to in the November 2008 archives was Thanksgiving. I had made a list of things for which I am grateful and not a one of them has changed in a year. I am one lucky lady and several tragic events of the past few weeks have just made me more aware than ever of all my blessings.
After family, friends have always been at the top of my list of blessings. We've spent the last two nights with good friends, eating delicious food, sharing stories, and reminiscing. Tonight's dinner was the first of biweekly dinners and bridge with good friends. Thirty some years ago we started playing bridge and having dinner every Wednesday night. In addition to the bridge game, Eileen and I made an informal agreement that we would never serve the same meal, so our repetoires of recipes really increased. We had a lot of fun, ate really well, and maybe the bridge game improved. After Matt was born, I couldn't keep up with a full-time job and two kids so the weekly dinners disappeared. We continued to play bridge in a duplicate group, however, which is now in its 37th year. Last month we decided to reinstate the Wednesday night dinners, but every other week. So nice to come back to an old pattern now that all our kids are grown.
Tonight's dessert was a new recipe for me, found on the Mommy Coddle blog last week. Absolutely delicious!
I served it with vanilla ice cream, a bit of homemade caramel sauce, and candied pecans.
