Why do we fall?

Yesterday Rhiannon was pretty nervous about playing her piano piece at the Honors Recital.  She had put in so much work on this song and knew it by heart, but she was worried about messing up.

So we're in the van heading to the recital, and Wade knows that his big sister has some nerves.  He says something like, "I remember when I was really stressed out about messing up at my baseball games, and Mom would tell me that line from Batman Begins..'Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.'"

It's a pretty cool moment to hear one of your kids trying to comfort your other kid with some small thing you said a LONG time ago.

Foodie temptation

Today's a quiet day for me until 2:00 pm, so I decided to take a closer look at Grandma Lola's recipes and see how hard it would be to make it into a spiral-bound cookbook.  Jason's cousin Brittany put in a LOT of time typing out all the recipes, so all I'm doing is copying and pasting.  I had to grin at Grandma Lola's huge stash of desserts, outnumbering all of the appetizers, breads, sauces, vegetables, sides, salads, and main dishes combined.  Here's a picture to give you an idea and make your mouth start watering:

Yum!