Mockingbird Hill Cottage
From our house to yours, Happy Thanksgiving.
May gratitude fill the moments of your day, whether with family or friends or in solitude.
We will be counting our blessings.
I am very thankful for you and your presence here in my little corner of the virtual world.
Have a lovely day.
I’m stealing this photo from my Instagram post this morning.
We woke up at an ungodly hour this morning. 4:30 am. What the heck??
Back story: Scout, as an almost 17 year old dog, has issues with her ‘elimination’ processes. So we now use the pretty chalkboard in the kitchen to write things like ‘Pee 6:59 pm’ and ‘Poop 10 am.’ Since she pees less often, usually about twice a day, and sometimes leaks a bit, we are vigilant about chronicling her daily schedule, which is never the same. This involves remembering when she last peed, thinking ahead 11 or 12 hours, and making sure we get her outside in time. A good night is when she pees at around 7:30. We smile and relax, knowing we can sleep normally and still be up in good time for Scoutie.
There are, however, many times that one of us has to get up at 3 in the morning and hustle her outside. You do what you have to do.
Last night, for some reason, she peed at 5:30. So I figured we could probably get up around 6 am and we’d be okay. It was too warm in our bedroom last night and both of us woke up at various points in the night. At some point later, I woke up and figured it was close to 6 am. Still dark out, but about to be light. Don was also awake and we chatted back and forth about whether we should get up. I kept thinking about Scout and knew I had to get downstairs very soon to let her outside. When I start worrying about letting her out, forget it – I can’t get back to sleep. So I got up. And Don got up.
I went downstairs and looked at the clock (for some reason we don’t have a working clock in our bedroom.) It was 4:55 am. Hence…we were awake at 4:30, yammering on to each other, deluded in our belief that it was 6 am or so.
Crap.
And to add insult to injury, Dame Scout continued to snooze for the next two and a half hours. I finally woke her up to let her out at 7:30.
What’s wrong with this picture?
Don is now napping on the sofa in the den. Scout is sleeping in the tunnel.
I’m wide awake.
Happy Thursday.
We’ve been very busy around here lately. I’ve been traveling back and forth to Manhattan on a theater coaching job. My husband has been on the road performing. All well and good of course, as we love our work, but all of that activity means we’ve barely seen each other.
Life goes by rather quickly, especially when we’re busy. And when that happens, it helps to find a pocket of time in which to stop, sit down, share some conversation and in our case, something sweet. A sweet moment in time, made all the sweeter by Marie Callender’s Frozen Desserts.
Oh, yes, indeed.
We made a trip to our local grocery store and brought this beauty home with us:
Marie Callender’s Frozen Pies are simply scrumptious, with a homemade quality that makes them irresistible. The Chocolate Satin Pie has a rich chocolate filling, a made-from-scratch chocolate cookie crust, and it’s topped with real chocolate curls.
Hello there! I’m here to tell you that this pie is unbelievably good. Oh my goodness! If you’re a chocolate lover, as we are, you will think you’ve died and gone to heaven.
It’s so beautiful I almost couldn’t cut into it. But somehow I managed, and if the sighs of happiness coming out of my husband’s mouth were any indication, this has become his favorite pie.
I managed to take a photo before it was devoured by two chocolate lovers who needed a quiet and sweet moment together. That would be my husband and me.
We got it, that’s for sure.
Marie Callender’s also makes a Coconut Cream Pie and a Dutch Apple Pie that are equally wonderful, with made-from-scratch goodness in every bite.
It’s far too easy to fall into the trap of being busy, busy, busy. It’s far too easy to fall prey to all the demands on our time and forget to take some time to savor the moment. Whether that moment is solitary and quiet or a conversation with a dear friend or family member, one of Marie Callender’s frozen desserts will make it even sweeter.
There’s one piece of the Chocolate Satin Pie left. Will we share it or will one of us grab it on the sly?
I’m hoping we’ll share it. Fingers crossed!
You can find out more about Marie Callender’s Frozen Desserts here.
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