this is a public service announcement.

please, please don't leave the house in yoga pants unless you are actually heading to a yoga class. and if you MUST go to the grocery store in them, you know in the event of an emergency, please choose one that is next to a gym. at least that's what i do and then no one is ever the wiser, well until they see that there's a box of hostess cupcakes in my basket. after all i said it was an emergency ;)

but in all honesty, i'm only looking out for you. yoga pants are a slippery slope. at first you're all "oh it's just this one time and who's going to notice? they're black after all and look so much like regular pants. I'll just put on this cute matching zip front jacket and be quick. just in and out"

then all of a sudden you're leaving your house in your husbands red sox t-shirt from the '86 glory years and flannel snowflake pajama bottoms, wondering if no shoes really does mean no service. and then you end up a square on wal*mart bingo or worse an actual spy photo on the people of wal*mart website.

do yourself a favor just don't do it. i respect you more than that and realy a cute t-shirt and a pair of jeans (even mom jeans) is a better option in the end.

in all honesty

maybe i was really doing this...

let me just say that 36 hours in grand cayman can do wonders for your soul. i am still relaxed and that was almost a week ago. when things start getting crazy i just close my eyes and feel the sand between my toes. then i open my eyes and realize it's not sand, its an entire bag of sugar on the floor. same difference. now breathe.

how long was that flight again?

wow, i'm bad at this!

i think i might have to make a promise to myself to be better about keeping up here. as august quickly faded into september i kept thinking, no the summer can't be over it's still only...oh wait 2 weeks from halloween! eek! literally :0 i guess time flies by when you're chasing a toddler around with a fresh diaper.

so here it is. my promise. i promise to sit down and think about writing something here more often and perhaps even hitting save and close in the process. the past few days have been productive ones and the oven has barely had time to cool off. with cool winds blowing the leaves off the trees and into my back hall come a need to bake and fill my belly with comfort food. so recipes will come along and some festive decorating tips too, and sooner than later. i promise!

bake it easy.

Mixing cinnamon and sugar is tough work.

Okay, well its not that tough but this little grinder makes it a lot easier. So thank you Trader Joe's for giving me that perfect cinnamon to sugar ratio with a nice crystaly crunch. Sure you can put it on toast, but I like to use it sprinkled on pie crust. oh yum. now lets go make a pie!

those darn flies.

Fruit flies. Enough said.

Actually you better go and make yourself one of these.

They help. No really they do and they only take a minute to put together.

Collect: a spice jar, washi tape, piece of paper, a chunk of fruit (i used banana) and some apple cider vinegar.

How: Add pretty stripes of tape around the bottom part of jar, this is mostly to hide the unsightly fruit and future flies.

Next put in the piece of fruit. Then pour in just enough vigegar to come up the sides of the fruit with a bit still sticking up.

Now take your piece of paper and cut it into a semi-circle and make a cone taping the side to hold it together. The goal here is to have a very small hole in the bottom that the flies can fly into but not neccessarily back out again.

Place your cone with the small tip into the top of the spice jar. You'll now want to run a piece of tape around the jar and the cone holding the 2 together and making a seal that the flies can't get through.

And there you have it. A fruit fly trap. Happy hunting ;)