Month: March 2005

I love homemade frosting!

I got to Bard at about 5:30 and met a prospective Bard Conservatory student (Francesco) and his Dad (Curtis). Very nice folks. Francesco is accomplished in the piano, violin and viola and has composed 3 major musical works already! Very impressive.

Vince tried to sleep in Katherine and Bob’s bed last night, but apparently he kept insisting that he was hungry and thirsty, so they sent him back to sleep with me.

In the morning, we said goodbye to Francesco and Curtis and headed to the student center so Vince could eat 2 sausage patties.

I looked for poetry books in the bookstore, especially John Ashbery books.

Then we went back home in a raging blizzard. Yikes, it was pretty silly being out there in the slush and cold with two kids and a single stroller, but we made it home.

Then I spent the rest of the morning making cupcakes with Vince. Vince didn’t really help, he mainly ate sugar. The cupcakes were too full and they all overflowed the tops and made a gigantic 9-cupcake mass.

Then we braved the weather and drove back to Wappingers. It took more than 2 hours in the snow, but the kids slept and I went really slowly.

We had an early dinner of raviolis and then I made the frosting for the cupcakes. Frosting is just sugar and butter pretty much. Remember that. It is so much better than the stuff out of the can. We are ready for B-day.

Site maintenance.

So you’ll notice a few things different about Just Regular Folks… At the top of the page, there is this blue bar. If you look on the left hand side, a button that says, BlogThis! Click on this and you will get a pop up window that you can enter your blog in on. As you are entering your wonderful prose, look at the light blue bar on the pop up window in which you are typing. You will see a button that has the letters ABC with a check mark. This is the spell check. Good luck with spelling.

Also, if you look at the very bottom of the Just Regular Folks page, you will notice a site counter! We have had 101 visits! Hooray!

Actually, I’ve been distracted.

The kids have been great. Vince went to school today and they had Pat’s Pals come over. A lady, Pat I guess, comes over with animals for the kids to pet. She had a snazzy set-up, a background painted with trees and mountains, a real tree with branches for the birds to perch on. I didn’t see the show, but Vince tells me that that he saw a blue bird, a tall tall snake, a tiny bunny, a prickly hedgehog and something else? I forget.

Anyhoo, Jeremy called from Germany, he’s doing great. Set up a web cam so we can see each other. The kids loved it, and Ruby looked behind the computer to find Jeremy. No luck.

Well I’m off to the elder Martin household – generally withour internet access. Be back in 24-36 hours.