May 12, 2012 – Contentment Cottage

mayonnaise chocolate cake

This morning I opened a new jar of mayonnaise and it reminded me of two things we really enjoy eating. Chocolate and Cake! So…since this weekend is Mother’s Day – and since I’m a mother, without a celebration, unless I make my own – I decided to indulge my sweet tooth and make this old…

moms, dads & grads

If Spring came but once a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Over the next couple of months, here in the USA, we’ll take time…