Dusting the cobwebs off my blog

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Goodness gracious, it has been almost a year since I wrote anything on my blog. Some of you must have thought that I have forgotten all about it. A few people, like Stax, went a step further and found ways to contact me which was really very sweet. Others, like my friend S in Miami and D in Dallas, got on the phone and hollered at me for just stopping without at the very least a be-right-back post or a fare-thee-well.

The thing is I never really intended to stop blogging. Life just got in my way. First, my mom with an ongoing medical issue which became critical around the same time that we were involved with a home renovation. All of this together with the usual demands of being a working mom, taking care of a family and I hope you can understand that something had to give. I was unhappy that the something which had to be sacrificed, was my blog. Yet the idea of writing a blog interrupted post in my mind would have validated something that I really did not wish to be true. I was well and truly in denial. Of course by the time I reached the stage of acceptance it just seemed like there was little point to do so anymore.

So what's going on? Well my life just seems to move from one colossal crises after another. This is not strictly true. Of course, there has been just about as much good mixed in with the bad. Yet it's the bad that always seems to make the most noise and take up most headspace. Two weeks ago I was in a fairly serious car accident. It was just one of those freak things, but I am thankful that everyone involved escaped without injury. I'd like to say that it has made me ponder my life (it has )but the truth is also that, for now, I am stuck at home with little more to do than cook and supervise the kids who are on school holiday. Fun as that may be, I find myself needing an occasional break from mummy duty, even if that means hanging out here doing what essentially amounts to me talking to myself:-) Hopefully being back will help clear my head so that I can focus more on all the other good that is happening in my life on a daily basis.

So there you have it, although I have been away, I have still been surrounded by food, recipes and photography - all good things.

So this was me last month at a food photoshoot surrounded by lots of good things, delicious cupcakes and friends with awesome cameras. I did not take my camera but I did take my appetite and thus I helped with the uhhh..... cleanup. Tough job I know but chocolate-mint and ginger-carrot cake cupcakes just don't pick up after themselves you know! Wow, I needed help getting up out of that chair afterwards. In the end though you know I could not stay away from getting behind the lens.

Anyone who wants to get these delectable cupcakes you can visit the Just Bites FB page here. I taste tested them for you and they come with my stamp of approval!