{"id":3509,"date":"2011-07-05T20:19:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T01:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2011-07-05T20:19:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T01:19:04","slug":"congested-with-a-side-of-pupps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=3509","title":{"rendered":"Congested with a side of PUPPS???"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I seem to have developed a nasty cold over the weekend.\u00a0 I’ve been progressively getting worse every day… all the classic annoying symptoms:\u00a0 completely congested, drippy nose, itchy eyes, sneezing, headache, and basic overall exhaustion.\u00a0 Not exactly what I wanted to be dealing with right now.\u00a0 And the worst part is that I can’t take any real medicine for it.\u00a0 If I’m still this miserable by Friday I’ll ask my midwife what I can do about it…<\/p>\n

And if that wasn’t enough, I noticed my hands and neck started itching again yesterday.\u00a0 I can’t see any large spots of PUPPS yet but I also can’t imagine what else it could be.\u00a0 Bummer.\u00a0 I was really hoping it wasn’t going to come back anymore, although I knew it was always a possibility.\u00a0 Either way, I’m on the home stretch now:\u00a0 only 10 days until my due date.\u00a0 I can make it.\u00a0 I can make it!<\/p>\n

But enough of my complaining.\u00a0 Let’s talk about something else.\u00a0 Like the dessert I made yesterday.\u00a0 It was from the Pampered Chef cookbook that I borrowed from my Mom.\u00a0 I had Tim look through all the recipes and that was one of the desserts that looked appealing to him so I thought I would try it.\u00a0 The directions were a bit confusing so I accidentally made it in a loaf pan instead of a flat pan the first time so Tim had to go back to the store and buy more pound cake mix.\u00a0\u00a0 (What a wonderful man.)\u00a0 So by the time I figured everything out and re-baked the cake it was late.\u00a0 The directions told me to let it cool for at least 1 hour before enjoying, but it was already so late we just ate it.\u00a0\u00a0 Today I had another slice and I must say it is much better cold, so I know why they say to let it chill.\u00a0 Tim and I also agree that when I make it again we’ll only use strawberries on top.\u00a0 The blueberries, while adding a wonderful red\/white\/blue contrast, didn’t compliment the cake like we preferred.\u00a0 The strawberries, on the other hand, were wonderfully sweet and fresh.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a bit labor-intensive to assemble, but it was also my first attempt, so I’m sure I could do it a lot faster next time.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here’s an up close picture to show the delicious layers.\u00a0 Yum.<\/p>\n

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Well, I seem to have developed a nasty cold over the weekend.\u00a0 I’ve been progressively getting worse every day… all the classic annoying symptoms:\u00a0 completely congested, drippy nose, itchy eyes, sneezing, headache, and basic overall exhaustion.\u00a0 Not exactly what I wanted to be dealing with right now.\u00a0 And the worst part is that I can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}