Kanga’s Kitchen

So the Ovia app’s week 5 baby-size is peppercorns, which most recipes seem to feature in a sauce for steaks. I made the sauce & a couple side dishes, then took Roo & Ruby outside to play while Christopher Robin grilled the steaks & kabobs. Then I started spotting, and lost the baby overnight. “You give & take away; Lord, blessed be Your Name.” This one feels harder than the last one, but I know God is good and I know He has a good purpose. Now I have two babies waiting for me in Heaven….  

 

As it turns out, cutting back on coffee seems to have worked (along with a higher dose of letrozole, and of course God deciding the time was right). We’re 5 weeks pregnant with Our Little Blessing 3 aka Rudy (Roo D)!  So for week 4, we celebrated with poppyseed kuchen from my Hungarian-chef heritage. 🇭🇺👨‍🍳  

  It’s not your fault when other people get angry, and it’s not your responsibility to fix their problems. Let it go & move on, at least  as much as you can.  See this helpful article:  People's Meanness

The Holy Spirit is our Helper.  Exercise helps, too. 

I LAVA YOU!!!  *Cue Disney-Pixar's volcano love-story short film* And I so wanted to make you/us a really nice cake for our anniversary today! https://itsybitsykitchen.com/chocolate-mocha-cake/ Amidst child-rearing & housekeeping & home-educating & hospital-facilitating & everything else. Although I didn't find a legit cake board to put it on, there was a big enough paper plate Bfor the base cocoa/coffee layer. Then the first layer of creamy espresso filling, then the second chocolate cake layer, then another espresso-filling layer, then the final layer of chocolate cake, So far, so good. Next to start with the creamy chocolate espresso frosting - which was too stiff, so I stirred in some milk. But when I started frosting the cake, then the cake started falling apart. And then my 7-year-old started hollering questions and all kinds of stuff, and I'm just like "Please go play! I really need space to focus on saving this cake!" Eventually i...