A Bit of Knowledge: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Oh my, I didn't even realize that it had been a while since my last post. I am telling you, the time just passes by really fast. Matthew will be one year old on May 7th. We already celebrated the first round of his birthday last weekend with my husband's family. Next weekend, it will be my side of the family. We had to split up; otherwise, everyone would just feel like a sardine at our small home.

I want to cook and bake it all myself. Speaking of making stuff, when Matthew was born, I said I would do stuff for him myself—cook, bake, and take care of him 24/7. I am not going back to work until he is ready for school or when he has had enough of me.

As the title states, a picture is worth a thousand words.

I've always been a big fan of recording information, or more so, events in my life—things I did, places I travelled, things I cooked, things I baked, and things I made myself. The neat thing about the camera is that I don't have to write things down that much anymore. Conveniently, it has a time stamp, which I often forget to set. However, let me give you a few examples. When I hiked last year, I would take photos of the starting point, then the midpoint, and the end. Of course, I would take my nicest photos in between. When I cook, I take photos of my prepared dishes. When I do bake, I take photos of my cakes and cookies. When I host a party, I take photos of vegetable or fruit arrangements, and yes, I don't forget to take photos of the guests as well. Another thing I did was photograph five plastic containers of stuff I have—my treasures collected over the years. Since sometimes I like to dig some stuff out, I have to go through all the containers because, for the life of me, I just don't remember where things are. So what I did was photograph all my articles and index them by container. Now I don't have to look inside; I just look into folders on my computer and find what I need to look at again.

In this post, I have a few examples of what I prepared for Matthew's birthday last weekend. I made him a mousse cheesecake. It may not look great because I still need to practice cake decoration, but it sure tasted great. Very light, mango-flavoured, with a layer of chocolate cake. Unfortunately, the chocolate cake was supposed to be a 3-layer cake, but because I didn't beat it well, I ended up with a 1/2-inch-thick, hard cookie. This reminded me of the 7-layer cake baked flat as a pancake by Fred from the I Love Lucy show.

The other two photos show my fruit arrangements, one with strawberries and the other with cantaloupe balls. Unfortunately, again, I do need practice making melon balls. I was very disappointed when I was getting half balls only. If you're wondering what the green leaves are, it's kale. It is an excellent leaf for decorating fruit arrangements.

My last comment is that taking photos with a digital camera costs me almost nothing.

~ Anna