The blog fairy

What?  It's December already??? Get outta here.

I guess that Lionel Richie wasn't quite enough to bring me back to blogging life.  Every year, the fall schedule is a blog killer for me - between the start of a new school year, 4th quarter work deadlines, both kids birthdays, Halloween, Thanksgiving and all that jazz, I'm forced to drop out of the food blogging scene for a while.

During these past few months I missed the culmination of the local harvest and the final farmers market days of the season.  Dinnertimes have been haphazard.  Instead, I played UNO with the card shark above and took in my first meal at the Mall of America's American Girl Cafe with my own American birthday girl.

I witnessed not just one, but two teeth lost - not only from my daughter's mouth, but from the scene entirely.  Imagine trying to explain that one to the tooth fairy.  Twice.   The first time it happened:

The second time a tooth went missing within the span of the same week, I said to my daughter, "how are you going to explain it to the fairy this time?"  She penned:

Maybe I need to write a note to the blog fairy.