Ten.One Thousand, Six Hundred & Twenty-Three

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  1. Eve.

  2. Taking it slow.

  3. A break from the rain. Bright sun warming everything.

  4. No wrapping to be found.

  5. Quiet.

  6. Potato and leek gratin, candied sweet potatoes, chocolate cake with salted caramel frosting.

  7. I lean over the pot and wait for the sugar to melt. I think of all the things: the paperwork, the weather, the timing. Reframe it. This is an opportunity to do something I never thought I would be doing. I can let life surprise me. It’s not the circumstance, but how we respond to it.

  8. Never will not use this base recipe for frosting - even if it takes me a whole hour to make it.

  9. We laugh at the fact that it’s the first time we’ve realized that the parents in A Christmas Story are drinking red wine on Christmas morning.

  10. Always the same every year. Why haven’t I learned by now?

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