Chasing Butterflies Daily

When I was in pre-school in Sweden I remember we had a set of boards that were designed to practice threading and tying laces, I think there possibly were ones with buttons and zips as well. Now our girls have already mastered buttons and zips, they have plenty on their clothes. But, as is the case for many kids these days, they don't really have to deal with laces as most kids shoes either have velcro or elastics. It's still an important skill to master though. I could set them loose on the adult shoes with laces in the house but I liked the larger size of the boards I learnt on as a kid so decided we'd try to make something similar at home. It's handy with the projects that keep the kids busy through different phases, especially when you've literally got nothing but time to kill like most of us do in these covid times. The girls have yet to actually master the tying of the bow but they enjoyed the process of making their boards and threading their ribbons...

The last few days I've been craving a slice of carrot cake because it's one of my favourite cakes. I used to hate it as a child, I think mostly because it had a vegetable in it to be perfectly honest. However, I have also tasted some pretty awful carrot cakes, often they're dry and sometimes full of nuts and dried fruit. Now I love nuts, but not a fan of them in cakes; I am however not keen on raisins or any other dried fruits so any cake with them puts me off. I turned to the internet to find inspiration for my homemade carrot cake. I took ideas from several different recipes, partially restricted by what ingredients I had at home as I had no intentions of going to the shop today. Pretty pleased with what I came up with as is the rest of the family!  Ingredients Cake batter 3 eggs 200 ml white sugar 100 ml brown sugar (if I hadn't had any in I would've used white instead for all of it but saw it recommended for more moist...