Grumbly Gus

I have to come clean. I have been a bit of a Grumbly Gus lately. I am usually a girl that can roll with the punches. Take life as it comes. Just go with the flow. But, here it goes, the rain is getting to me. Never before I have a grumbled so much about the rain. I mean, I chose to live in the Northwest! I could have stayed in the Midwest with it's snow, cold temperatures, and humidity. But I chose to move here and now, I am just begging for a little sun. Just a little itty bitty bit, please!

Someone told me this morning we have been setting records in the number of days we have had rain (last time I checked it was 30 out of 32 days. Yikes!) Setting a record in the fact that we haven't reached 60 degrees at all in March (sigh). Is this why, whenever there is a tiny bit of sun peeking through those clouds, my whole family runs to the patch of sun and stands there soaking it up?!? I think I'd rather set records in the number of sunny days in the month of March instead!

To try and cure my Grumbly Gus attitude, I've made myself run outside just to be outside in the fresh air instead of the gym. This theory proved to be interesting last Sunday as I ran through sunshine (yay!), rain (boo!), and hail (ouch!) all in a 50 minute time-span. But, I have perservered and taken to drying my shoes over the heat register every night.

I have also been baking away madly in the kitchen, continuing to test my recipes for the day Cupcake Tuesdays becomes a true bakery (still daydreaming of that day!).  Testing out recipes such as:

Chocolate Cupcake with Malted Buttercream Frosting

Testing out a pumpkin cake recipe that developed into a yummy, fall-inspired cupcake:

Don't you just love those pearl decorations?!? So fancy!

And my new love: Whoopie Pies, a fun concoction that brings a lot to the table. I just found a whole cookbook devoted to Whoopie Pies that looks like it will give me a whole year of baking fun!

So simple but oh so good!

So I will try my best to not be such a Grumbly Gus as the weather looks like it will continue to be rainy. But, just so you know, I just might give up, pack the kids up, and hit the road. Paint the words, "Sunshine or Bust!" on my mom-van and go on a mission to find a sunny patch. I can feel the sunshine on my shoulders now!