Wednesday, 01 July 2009
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[This is a little retro re-post from two days ago....our internet was down for a few days and just came back on so I saved the post I wrote up and am leaving it for you here today.]
Today, 7 years ago....A and I were married, in a blistering afternoon ceremony in my great-grandparents vineyard. Its not nearly as hot out, I am older and wiser and we're still together and still very happy and grateful that God gave us to each other. Tonight we plan to try to watch our wedding video (something we haven't done in years ), thumb through our wedding photo albums, get my dress, veil, ring bearer pillow and flower girl basket out of storage to ooo and ahh over and generally reminisce madly together. We are going out for a romantic dinner alone later in the week but, tonight will be a family celebration of our love and marriage. I want to make sure that the kids feel included in celebrating our anniversary, its great to have sacred alone time to commemorate our couplehood but, our marriage is cause for celebration for our children too....we are where the whole family began and love in any form is a good thing, worthy of attention and much hoopla. We plan to toast each other with a special bottle of sparkling grape juice A has been squirreling away for some celebratory occasion.
I still don't feel much like celebrating anything, I still feel like living in the back corner of my closet but, I know that life needs to go on as much as possible, and at this time of all times its important to celebrate our marriage. Sometimes you need to just force yourself to do the right thing, even if the right thing is dishing up ice-cream and scattering confetti.
Speaking of ice cream! A made the best ice cream I have ever had in my life this weekend. We went strawberry picking and while I made a double batch of strawberry jam he whipped and stirred and pureed and strained and then froze a heavenly batch of homemade fresh strawberry ice cream. Seriously people, this is so good. He told me this morning that we need to use it up before we leave for Michigan on Wednesday which means (oh wretched us!) that we have to really push the ice cream consumption in the next two days. Heh heh. Worse things have happened.
Yesterday we had pasta for lunch with a homemade cream sauce topped with a saute of fresh mushrooms, butter, bacon slivers and young garlic slices. So, so good. Yum. Every once in a while I invent a dish that I'm just imagining in my mind and it turns out exactly as good as I wanted it to be. That's the kind of meal it was. Very delish.
Then to top it all off, we had strawberry shortcake for dessert. I really like strawberry shortcake. We are are of the biscuit persuasion in our family but truly that's because of me. I'm from a biscuit family. A's folks make the yellow sheet cake variety. For those in either camp who may be unfamiliar: my method of shortcake goes like this, a drop biscuit (slightly sweetened), sliced in half topped with a sliced strawberry/sugar mixture and then a generous dollop of homemade (just slightly sweetened) and a little bit gloppy whipped cream. Perfect. In A's family they make a yellow sheet cake, cut it in squares and then top each serving with a more heavily sweetened strawberry mixture and then whipped cream. I have a hunch the differences are some sort of regionalism but, I confess to not knowing much about how the styles came to be and why we differ. Maybe we're seeing our ethnic differences in action? I just know that there are strong opinions in the field about strawberry shortcake "rightness." How does your family make it?
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Comments (10)
Time flies when you're having fun! Congratulations on 7 years!
congrats, the ice cream and shortcake sound delicious
To be honest, I didn't see Strawberry Shortcake made with actual shortcakes (biscuits) until I was an adult. We always made it with slices of pound cake. Variations abound!
Your blog makes me hungry! Haven't has the biscuit variety in ages, but I love it.
Congrats on your wedding anniversary, and congrats on being able to maintain the happiness and the love throughout the years. It's a rare and special thing, and I am glad that you have that in your lives.
As for strawberry biscuits/shortcake etc - they both sound like an awesome and yummy tradition. (I myself grew up on TV dinners, followed by whatever wasn't too freezer burned for dessert, LOL) Would absolutely love to try that biscuit thing sometime, I am kind of salivating just thinking about how good those must taste! Wow!
Happy Anniversary!!
I wonder if those are the same drop biscuits we use for our strawberry shortcake.... soo good!!! I think strawberry shortcake is my favorite dessert ever.
Have fun in Michigan, say hi to everyone for me, and I can't wait to visit with you guys when you return!
And, I hope you are able to resolve/handle/move on from/or otherwise address as appropriate whatever it is that's troubling you. I'm thinking of you and hope you're well!
Love,
-Evan
I remember that roasting hot wedding day, and I am trying to bring up some of that heat as I am sitting here with an outside temp. of 48!! Congrats! It was a beautiful day!
I make the real shortcake, my mom and grandma made it the same way and so does Grandma Williams!!
I love that you did a family anniversary celebration. What a cool idea!
I grew up with a giant biscuit baked in a round cake pan, cut into regular cake-slice triangles which were then topped with sweetened strawberries and whipped cream. Kind of mysterious since A's mom and my mom are sisters. Makes me wonder what THEIR mom made. But the two shortcake approaches do sort of go along with their general cooking personalities. I don't remember my mom ever using cake mixes. (She did always use muffin mixes, though, oddly enough.) A's mom was the always the more efficient, streamlined type in the kitchen, so if a boxed cake mix would work, she'd use it.
Great choices on how to celebrate your marriage on your anniversary!! and yes sometimes when you don't feel like it you must just figure out what to do and force yourself to do it!! Good job of putting one foot in front of the other!! It shows in your children's faces that you are doing a good job of it!!