Happy Easter

Happy Easter! In my new tradition of turning over holidays to my children, we will be celebrating on Saturday at my youngest daughter's house.  I baked brownies and a lemon pound cake tonight. Tomorrow I am putting together crack green beans, scalloped potatoes and chicken breast stuffed with asparagus. I bought a sliced ham.  But I don't have to clean my house. 

I have two kitchens in my dollhouse. This little doll is in the second kitchen with my Hallmark appliances and white furniture. 

The ice box is from the inherited kitchen. I bought the wooden cabinet set about ten years ago. The kitty is waiting for scraps. 

The Dionne quintuplet on the right is holding court around the fireplace in a living room in sad need of remodeling. In my defense my sister in-law who owned this house originally let her toddler daughter play with it. 

The papoose in the den has her own dollhouse. The footstool was made for me by author Camille Minichino (writing as Margaret Grace) in her dollhouse miniature cozy mystery series. She hosted a giveaway on her blog and personalized the prize for me. Camille passed away in May. Not only did she author two award winning mystery series, she was a former nun and a nuclear physicist. For real! She also invited me to "Noir at the Bar" a literary event that is part of the Lit Quake mystery authors conference in San Francisco during the pandemic. The event was held on line and we sat at home with cocktails while several mystery authors read chapters or short stories of their work. 

The reindeer and elves are sleeping in the upstairs bedrooms. 

Second cataract surgery completed. I have had a few more side effects this time but plowing through.  Today we even made it to the gym.