Busy August

The last few weeks have been incredibly busy for me. We celebrated the boy’s birthday, he went back to work and he also had surgery. And I’ve been on the receiving end of all of that.

I prepped for his Harry Potter-themed birthday party. I attempted to create a version of the Book of Monsters from Harry Potter.

I've also handled household chores while he was at work and am currently nursing him.

On top of this, I baked more than 40 cupcakes for a bachelorette party this weekend.

I am also beginning to prepare the house for out of town guests coming for my sister’s wedding.

Whew!

My to-do lists only grows longer this week, so I finally took the time to write out some of things I HAVE to do this week.

• Decide on a groom’s cake that I’m going to bake for my brother-in-law
• Pick up and hope my bridesmaid dress fits
• Buy home essentials that I’ve been NEEDING to buy – like paper towels
• Get a great cake carrier – I had a great one from Martha Stewart but after this weekend, I’ve realized I need one that carries more than 24 cupcakes.
• Get cost estimates for our home office, especially a file cabinet
• Check out options for a liquor cabinet
• Find an inexpensive bookshelf for my serveware. This is my solution to having too many pieces!

Here's to a good week!

The end of summer is near

Here are some random thoughts of the night...

Harry Potter News

So author of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling announced on her website yesterday plans for the release of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard." The Tales of Beedle the Bard will be published on December 4, 2008, by Rowling's charity, Children's High Level Group, in an exclusive agreement with publishers Bloomsbury and Scholastic and with Amazon. All proceeds will go to the charity. There will be a regular edition ($7.59) as well as a limited number of collector's edition ($100, which will include 10 additional illustrations not featured in the standard or even the original group of books).

According to Rowling, "the new edition will include the Tales themselves, translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, and with illustrations by me, but also notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore," these notes were of course found in his papers following his death.