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I roasted a chicken for dinner, made stock from the bones the next day, made soup from the stock the day after. I AM THE COOK I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE. forever and ever, amen.

It’s Joe’s birthday so I made him german chocolate cake. German chocolate is Joe’s dad’s favorite, my dad’s favorite, and now it’s Joe’s favorite. Is there something man-attracting about this cake that I’m not noticing? Baker’s sure isn’t sweating it, you have to buy their German Chocolate and their sweetened coconut just to do the recipe properly.

But now that I’m the cook I can get rid of those pesky pecans that compose half the frosting in the original recipe. So much better. I wish I loved them, but I don’t. the end.

we’re only eating this cake by candlelight, by the way, because if Lux is awake to try it, her eyes will be opened to the sugar garden of good and evil and it would be only-cake-only cake-only-cake-please until every bite was gone.

mmm yes this is how I teach self-control at 15 months. Omission style.

I bought him Happy Socks for his birthday. Isn’t their logo just the greatest? I don’t know if you can see it, but they stitch their tag on with different colors depending on the sock. I bought them at Uniform in the South End, which is a men’s store I would like to buy from exclusively.

Warby Parker came to town so we went to try on glasses and see their cool schoolbus. The trouble with their glasses is that you’re like, “yes these look so cool! Wait, I don’t wear glasses…. how about I buy them anyway?”

(they’re probably coming to a city near you. Philadelphia is next)

Anyway, we walked away with a photo strip for the fridge, plus the one Lux munched for the photo above.