April 15th!

HOLY COW...how did April 15th come so quickly?  I just filed my taxes from 2009...or at least it feels like it.  I hate this time of year.

On a funnier note...we headed up to Quincy yesterday so I could help my mother bake the Easter bread we have every Easter.  The bread is special because it is a family recipe that has been passed down for generations.  My mothers grandmother made it and hers before.

It is always a time that I look forward to...the bread on Easter morning.  It is a sweet bread with an orange flavor and hits the spot with Easter breakfast/brunch.  I have never made the bread.  I really enjoy baking too.  My nieces and nephews have baked the bread and even my sister...but, not me.  I had felt bad because I wanted to know so I could pass it down in my own family.  So, I took my family with me and we headed to my moms to make the bread.  There is a step in making this bread that involves cooling down some ingredients that have been heated on the stove.  To do this, my mother always places a big bowl in her generously sized sink with cold water running.  As the water is running, Ava is saying over and over again "No running water, no running water..." (a mantra she has learned at school).  I explain  to her that in this case, it is ok to have the water run but thank her for thinking of that.  I go to the next step and start getting more ingredients out.  I hear my mother gasp...the running water was accidentally positioned over the bowl ruining the heated mixture.  We have a good laugh at how we should have listened to Ava and that if there was a time to make a mistake, it would be then.  We continue on repeating the process and we finish the bread and bake it.  We taste it....we forgot a key ingredient in the mixture when we had to repeat a step.  We laugh and are relieved that we have more time today (sunday) to make more bread and agree that I will make another trip to help out.

I go to bed last night only to wake up at 1:30 and could not fall back asleep until around 5.  Manny woke up at 6 and Ava spent half the night in our bed.  I have a migraine.  I call my mom and we call it a day...she is making the bread.  I will go to her house on another day before Easter and help her make more.

Sometimes  you just should just go with the flow of the universe.  LOL

Enjoy your beautiful Sunday...I will be preparing for April 15th inside.  YUCK.