{"id":1573,"date":"2011-01-22T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2011-01-21T10:52:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:52:39","slug":"celebrating-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/celebrating-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Late"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was my Momma’s Birthday on January 14th, and I missed it.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t completely forget about it, but I never got a hold of her to wish her a happy day and to let her know how much I love her. I thought of her a few times, and each time, i told myself that I’d call her as soon as i finished whatever it was that I was working on at that exact moment.<\/p>\n

Then I woke up the next morning and MAN….I felt bad. But, she’s my momma and she loves me and she loves to celebrate life – any day, any time for any reason……and so it was all good!<\/p>\n

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We asked my parents to come and have dinner with us this past Monday night.<\/p>\n

I knew that we were going to have them over and yet for whatever reason (I’m going with lack of sleep) I totally zoned on the fact that we were having them over “for her birthday”. I can’t even believe this myself. I’ve dropped the ball on a lot of things lately. My brain just doesn’t seem to be firing on all cylinders these days, and that’s not so cool!<\/p>\n

And that’s how I found myself at 3:30pm in the afternoon getting ready to think about make dinner (we were gonna eat at 5pm) and realizing that I had done NOTHING about a birthday cake. I didn’t even have a pie or muffin or anything made up that we could even just “pretend” was something “birthday” related.<\/p>\n

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I quickly tried to think of a quick alternative. Normally, it might just be easy to pop to the store and pick up a cake or some other dessert, but with the different food issues, that’s not really an option for us.<\/p>\n

And then I remembered, Udi’s Double Chocolate Muffins<\/a>. These little beauties are Dairy, Egg, Soy and Gluten Free and…they are actually delicious. Most importantly, I could pick some up at both of my local grocery stores, IGA and Save On.<\/p>\n

I figured that I could make some powdered sugar icing with my soy-free Earth Balance<\/a> and some almond milk and at the very least, we’d have something to stick a candle in.<\/p>\n

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It’s not the most beautiful birthday dessert that I’ve ever thrown together, but I was able to throw it together in less than 10 minutes and for a last minute rush job that takes a dairy, soy, egg and gluten free food issues into consideration, I think it’s pretty good.<\/p>\n

We had some great family time and enjoyed celebrating life, and got to eat some yummy chocolate cake as a bonus.<\/p>\n

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I sure love you, Momma! You are worth celebrating, EVERYDAY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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