The Name Game

Victoria, Sophia and Josiah are home safe from North Carolina. Victoria is so happy with her new chinchilla. Definitely better than a replacement rat she says. We were racking our brains sitting outside the Twin Kiss Ice Cream Parlor on 301 while licking our ice cream cones and sucking down our milkshakes enjoying the beautiful day. At one point, we didn't think we would come up with anything. Victoria even told me I needed to take a picture and stick it on my blog and get your suggestions.

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Then suddenly within seconds of each other we blurted out, "ZuZu's Petals!". So ZuZu it is, after George Bailey's daughter on "It's a Wonderful Life", one of our family's all time favorite movies. Instantly we knew we had our name. It was perfect.

ZuZu has a new cage too. Multilevel living. She's going nuts in it. Jumping around like a crazy chilla. Rolling around in her dust bath. She's cracking us up with all her crazy antics.

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To change the subject the overeating and indulging continues. We went to a cheap Mexican restaurant for lunch with my brother in law, Rob. I had my first tamale. I'm wondering why I hadn't tried one before. To quote Dora, "Yum, Yum, Yum, Deliciouso!". We also stopped at the Twin Kiss on our way back from picking the kids up in Virginia. We drove an hour south to help cut some drive time off of their father's long drive to and from North Carolina. So anyway, the Twin Kiss, I had a soft serve vanilla cone with chocolate sprinkles. Mmmmm. I totally would've moblogged it, but my phone died. Oh the tragedy!!!!

Oh, oh, oh and just now I took my other ball of pizza dough that I had bought from a small local deli/butcher/grocery/liquor store. They sell there own pizza dough frozen, 2 balls of dough for $1.99. I bought them to try with my flammenkuchen. All the recipes I've found called for pizza dough, usually homemade, but I'm not that brave yet. I have a fear of making breads or anything else that requires the use of yeast and kneading. So anyway, I used one yesterday for that beautiful delicious flammenkuchen (Recipe to come NorthernGeek, I haven't forgotten you!). The other was just sitting in the fridge, and I had the rest of the ingredients to make pizza, so I did. And it is yummy. Steve and I are eating it right now. No picture though, sorry. I'm going to pick up more dough this week and make pizza for dinner one night this week.

I'm off to eat more ice cream and help Steve finish up this pizza. Tomorrow, I'll explain what a "flammenkuchen" is and post a recipe.