Oh, hello!
I'm checking in to see how you are. We are GREAT, honestly loving life and cherishing this precious time together in which we are front and center to all of our children's developmental picadillos and developments. They are both at SUCH a fun age.
Although, honestly, what ISN'T a fun age to be quarantined with?
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I honestly don’t see the problem with children cursing. I have a filthy mouth and I’ve already resigned myself to the fact that I will likely have a child with a filthy mouth. I should preface this with the fact that I want my child to know how to curse properly. Cursing can be an easy escape for a person with a lack-luster vocabulary, but it can also be the pristine cherry on top of a beautiful sundae. “Mommy, I made a stinky in my pants,” is a fine sentence. However, “Mommy, I shit pants,” tugs on the heart strings a bit more. For starters it’s funny and secondly, it’s more accurate. A “shit” really lets you know what you are getting into. A “stinky” could be pants that have old mayonnaise on them, but a shit is a shit.
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Meaning, stuffs mixed into butter. Natch. 
This is the recipe I wrote to go with Matt's epic bread yesterday, but really the bread is so good that plain butter is perfect. but I had some fresh sage and frozen cherries and omgkerrygold, so why not? It takes five extra minutes of your life and compound butter is SO legit.
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Guys! We have a huge treat today. My friend Matt is taking over the blog to 1. teach you how to make bread (his. is. awesome.) and tell you about a fundraiser he's a part of for Make-A-Wish. Spoiler alert: if you donate you get bread from him! Matt is one of our oldest friends and one of the better people I know in this world. Read. Make Bread. Donate! 
Tomorrow we have a compound butter to go WITH the bread, so there's that, too.
I always think back fondly to making bread with my grandmother and the delicious smell of crackling crusts emanating from the kitchen. I’ve never gotten over that memory, which drives me into the kitchen every week to make another bread.
Many people mistakenly believe that making bread is difficult and time-consuming. While the end result of opening your oven to a rich, homemade loaf does take time, much of that time you don’t even have to do anything. Just let the dough do its thing and manipulate it as needed during every step.
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On Saturday two of my best friends threw me a baby shower (it feels selfish to say that like...they threw the baby a shower and I'm just her representative) and it was lovely and wonderful and I'm going to tell you all about it. The party was in our neighborhood, so before we headed over my sisters and mom came over to take some pictures because 1. we didn't at the beach this year, 2. we were all showered and looked pretty good and 3. we won't all be together at Thanksgiving, which is when we usually have this ritual of kind of fighting about pictures but then being really happy we took some. 
It's always kind of a process.
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So, if you're totally not into pumpkin and were kind of let down at the last pumpkin recipe we did, I'm really sorry. 
This may produce the same effect. 
BUT, if you're OK with trusting me that this pumpkin flavor is super duper mild and adding pumpkin to your food is healthy and delicious and also there is BUTTER AND CHEESE INVOLVED, then we might be able to make this work.
I think this is the last pumpkin recipe I'll share this year, and, while I realize that its pretty cliche I seriously do like adding it to stuff for the nutritional value, AND because if you use it in creamy things like risotto or mac and cheese you can use less of the other, less-healthy creamy stuff. So everyone wins.
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