My Chelsea.....

Credit for this photo goes to our dear friend Lindsay who
blogs at Girl in Nature. 

I love my girl!

She is so creative and smart.

This summer started off hard

for her because she is used to

having every moment filled and

when school was finished she was

left with a lot of free time.

So...she is finding lots to do.

For example this week she picked

blueberries with the Grandmas.
I'm going along to pick more

 this morning.

I'll be the one with the camera!

Not only did she pick these blueberries but then

she made a marvelous blueberry banana bread.

Yum....moist and sweet.

The blueberries have just enough tartness to 

make your mouth happy.

It has been a couple of years
since I have picked blueberries but I love the

quiet of the hillside with nothing

but blueberry bushes and chirpy birds.

The storm yesterday afternoon has 

made the weather more bearable.
Lower humidity and a lot cooler.
Much better for blueberry picking!

So a couple more quarts of blueberries 

are in our future.

Yesterday my dear husband celebrated a birthday.

Now, in his dreams birthdays would go by with

little fuss... but that is not going to happen.

Miss Chelsea saw it as a wonderful opportunity 

to make a cake.  

We know that you can't go wrong with chocolate

and peanut butter!

The hard part was that I had purchased a generic brand of

peanut butter which tasted just fine.  

However, when Chelsea

used it to make her icing it got all shiny.

Not at all what she had in mind.

Now, for a girl who has gotten used to 

turning out beautiful baked goods every time

this was just too much.

I mean, why do these things happen when it is 

a project that is so important?

But, I told her that this is to be expected and 

that we would just find a way to make it work.

I went out on errands and returned with a name

brand peanut butter.  Chelsea still didn't trust the 

recipe for icing she had been using so she made her 

own.  It turned out so very well.

This Momma is so proud that my girl, 

who wanted to give up, didn't.

The end result was both beautiful 

and extremely tasty!!!!

So....Warren is another year older

and we have three peanut butter pies in the 

freezer...a product of the icing gone wrong.
Made while I was out running errands.

Life is good

once again.

I hope when life gives you shiny peanut butter,

you make amazing pies!