After a relaxing morning of breakfast in bed and playing with my new juicer, we headed out for a birthday latte and afternoon at the bookstore. I was inspired by this blog to create a list of things that i want to do this year. The items on this list are both hopes and goals, but also just random things that bring me joy that I want to encourage myself to do more frequently. By the end of the evening I had already checked a few off, including using out beautiful bundt pan to bake my valencia orange birthday cake (as seen in the photo below). It was wonderfully fresh and the citrus flavor was a perfect match for the blueberry and lavendar sorbet.

And now that the birthday fun is over, we’re back to the busy world of two graduate students…

Happy March!