Time for Something New?

I feel as if I've had every single hair style imaginable. Crazy curly fro as a toddler, medium length hair as a child, a super short Nicole Richie cut during my earlier years in high school, and since my senior year, super long hair. And when I say super long, I mean it. As of December 26th, 2011, it reaches my butt. I blame my laziness and my minute fear of hairdressers and scissors. Let's just say I've had my fair share of horrible haircuts due to the hairdresser interpreting my "2 inches, please!" as "just chop it all off, I mean it's hair, who cares right?!" I'm most likely going in tomorrow for a cut, but I'm highly indecisive when it comes to "simple" decisions like this, as I am with most. Short? Just a trim? Long layers or short? This calls for a thorough search of the interwebz.

Holiday Baking

My sister and I decided to get together and wreak havoc in our kitchen to make our Aunt Rena's famous disappearing marshmallow brownies (disappearing because the minute they come out of that oven, they're practically gone). Rena is a close family friend of ours and whenever I make or eat these brownies, memories of my childhood and the San Francisco bay area flood back to my mind. She always sent us a holiday card in the mail along with these brownies. It wasn't a holiday without them. She's such a sweet woman and I miss her and California so much. My family and I don't really do any special activities for the holidays but it was comforting knowing I could spend time with my sister baking something that reminded us of our childhood.

You can tell we've had the recipe forever because the adorable paper Rena wrote on is wrinkling down :(













Right before it went into the oven and at this point we couldn't wait another 20 minutes for it to bake!



The finished result :)





The destroyed kitchen, with the flour everywhere and the sticky countertops, was totally worth it for the finished result. We hadn't made these in years and the first run came out amazing. Oh and I've had a few friends ask me for this recipe, but if I told you, I'd have to kill you. Happy Holidays!