MY HOUSE

Here it is tomorrow already and Scott is leaving for Texas. I just can't believe it. This week has been so busy getting stuff done I have hardly had time to be sad. The adult acne on my chin is proof that I have been under a bit of stress...coupled with my period. It's not good. Scott says it makes me look young (like a teenager :). Looking on the bright side of things, this house is still in good shape so there aren't lots of things to do. Just the "your house is going to be photographed" pressure of picking up piles, and getting rid of non-essentials. For me, this is when I start pulling away from MY HOUSE. It stops being MY HOUSE so much when I start taking out and putting away MY CRAP. Sometimes I wonder if we are doing the right thing trying to stick around until the end of school. I just hate the thought of pulling the kids this time around. It will be about 4 months of the split family living, which I hate. Which I hate even more this time around because it was so nice having Scott around 24/7. If by some miracle the house sells quickly, we just might have to move out to Texas before the end of the school year. (The average time on the market here is 6-7 months, so I'm not extremely worried) But we are pricing this house to sell sooner than that...so we shall see. Anyway, I must go, today is obnoxiously busy culminating in Hannah's birthday sleepover party tonight. What was I thinking?

It's official

Scott signed the papers today...we are moving back to Texas. We'd love to stay here, but this area is very hard hit, and there aren't any jobs. There were a few places we targeted in the old job search and Austin was one of them, so I'm thankful we are at least moving someplace we'd really like to live!! I told Scott (probably 7 years ago) to "look in Austin, I'd like to live here". Well, he finally listened. He starts on March 1st. The plan for now is to let the kids finish the school year, and then we will make the move. I pulled them last time, and feel like we need to let them finish the year up this time.

Mouthgasmic

A friend of mine here has this word...for things that are really good. I did get a little chuckle when I heard her use it for the first time...mouthgasmic. You know when you bite into something and you are making all those...well sounds. Hmmm, Ohhhh, Hmmm this is so good. And you go on and on, you know. When you have a mouthgasm.

So, my Mom (while she was laid up at home) started watching Martha Stewart again. She kept blabbing about how much she was enjoying her show. So I said, if she is enjoying that show so darn much, I best be DVRing that thing. So, I did. One of the first days I tuned in Ben Ford (Harrison's son, who is a chef with his very own restaurant in CA) was on. He made this delightful little chocolate cake.

Do you like chocolate cake like I like chocolate cake? There is cake, that I don't really give a hoot about at all, and then there is MOUTHGASMIC chocolate cake. I made the Ben Ford tasty little morsel chocolate cake tonight for our Valentine's celebration. I think as I was eating that cake Scott may or may not have given me a funny look. It was so good that I thought I best share with all of ya'all. (I am headed back to Texas, so I better get the ya'alls going haha)

Find recipe here. **Note** I did not add peppermint anywhere to this cake. Since I didn't add the peppermint candy to the topping, I added a little bit extra sugar.