Sylvia's Scenario

Now that Father's Day is over and our visitors have left,  I've had some time to settle down.   I thought I would post my other cream pie that I made for Father's Day this year which was a banana cream pie to accompany the chocolate cream pie.  I have only a few days left until our very busy July hits with five birthdays to celebrate, plus our anniversary, plus the fourth of July.  So, it will be a busy July.  I've made this banana cream pie several times so I am finally posting it.  In my family, chocolate cream pie is the favorite but honestly, this recipe is a close second.  I usually make them together for a big crowd which I did this year for Father's Day because there were ten of us with my sister and her husband visiting and my brother and his wife also visiting.  There are never any complaints about having too much pie.   After everyone left, I took a week off and went on an Alaska cruise with a girlfriend which was a ukulele cruise w...

Chocolate cream pie was always my dad's favorite dessert.  This year for Father's Day, we decided to celebrate my dad since my kids were not here and my sister's kids were not here.  However, my other sister and her husband were visiting from Colorado and her son lives here so she was the lucky one.  My brother and his wife also were visiting from Idaho so four of the seven children were here to honor my dad on Father's Day and that's just what we did. Below are all of us in 1979; my mom and dad and the five girls and two boys.  My dad was always so proud of all of us and we all wanted to make him proud, too, and with no strings attached.  We talk about that often, even to this day, about how we all turned out to be fairly well adjusted people even though our parents were not strict parents at all.  The fact that we survive our wild years of youth all in one piece is amazing!  We're old now (boo hoo) but still in one piece aside from a few joint replac...

There's no place like Paris.  We returned after our first visit in 2023  and it never gets old. I listed all the things I loved about Paris in my first post:  the sidewalk cafes, the amazing food that you eat at all the sidewalk cafes, the beautiful trees and parks, the shopping, the architecture and fairytale-like buildings, the people watching because the women dress so chic and so do a lot of the men. I loved watching people with their dogs, too, because there are a lot of dogs in Paris and they are so well behaved and relaxed, just like their people. This time during our visit, we just wanted to soak it all in. We enjoyed every minute of our time there. First of all, our hotel was right next to the Odeon Theater in the left bank near the Latin Quarter or 6th district (districts are called arrondissement) and we were also just a block away from the gorgeous Luxembourg Gardens.  We could look out our hotel window, which was the size of door and nearly as heavy sin...