Riot and Frolic

a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

List of Last Week’s Labors of Love

– so much candy:

  • Cadbury Mini Eggs and Creme Eggs (because they're the best) 
  • Starburst jelly beans (they're also the best, so suck it, Jelly Bellys)
  • coconut M&Ms (for The G) and peanut butter ones (for me)
  • Whoppers malted milk ball eggs (those are like Kryptonite for my willpower, plus I enjoyed typing "ball eggs")
  • solid milk chocolate bunnies
  • hollow milk chocolate bunnies
  • Peeps of the yellow chick and purple bunny variety… 

Where will it end!?

I'll tell you.

In MAH BELLY! 

– are you ready for my freak-out?  I don't think you are.  Turn those hearing aids to "off" because it's about to get loud up in here.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

the cheap and easy greenhouse

This little greenhouse , that I planted like 100 seeds in and turned on a desk lamp over, is THE BOMB!

morning glories sprouting
The morning glories were the first to pop up, about four days after being planted.  Now I have early-bird tomatoes, Better Boy tomatoes, radishes, Bright Lights Swiss Chard, Buttercrunch lettuce, baby romaine, little pumpkins, sunflowers, asylum (the flowers, I'm not purposely growing crazy), dill, cilantro, oh and bunch more.  

Now, I can't even fit the lid on without the snap peas and morning glories doing backbends.  

This week: hardening off the happy ones and babying the herbs and newcomers.  

– look at the cute baby!

The Zoo

– look at the dancing princesses!

dancing princesses

Mae Cake is her own accompanist

 

– I sewed!  I didn't curse at my machine!  I finished a project!  More on that Thursday!

sewing Quick Change Trousers

not swearing!

 

– the first one out of bed Easter morning gets to eat candy with Mommy and put her new"farkly" shoes on.
Mae Cake and her Easter basket

– a rainbow fruit salad.  Raspberries, mango, pineapple, kiwi, and blueberries.  

Rainbow fruit salad

Taste the rainbow

 

– sugared up ladies, ready to go to my folks' house.

V and Mae Cake

Cheesin'

 

– an Easter egg hunt where the ladies actually kind of hunted for the eggs.

 

Easter egg hunt

"Another one!"

 

– a chilly, but awesome walk across the Stone Arch Bridge in NE Mpls.  
Stone Arch Bridge and V and Mae Cake
– the Latin translation for my favorite sign-off ("go forth and conquer") is "Vado et Vinco".  I'll have to add that to our family crest… which we actually have.

– I found a bio that I don't hate!  I have no idea why or when I wrote it. 

How 'bout you guys?  Did ya have a good Easter?  What's your favorite spring candy?  Any big garden plans this year?  Do you know who these kids are?

 

One Direction?

I have no idea. This is for you, Valerie!

 

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