Why a Blog?

You know, that's a good question. I find it funny that I started a blog today, especially since we happened to be discussing this topic during my daughter's gymnastics class. My daughters, I'll call them N and C for the purposes of this blog (so that my hyper-secure and overprotective husband's head doesn't explode) both go to gymnastics, the older one for 3 hours at a time. Naturally we gym moms get to know one another pretty well and have long discussions about...oh who knows. But today we happened to get on the topic of moms who blog and we all agreed that it was stupid. Well, it sounded like that's what we agreed on but the truth is that I've wanted to start a blog forever. I just couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what on earth to call it.

Tonight I had a massive craving for peanut butter and chocolate. I've been on a low-carb kick for several months now and by the time I got home from gymnastics I needed something sweet so badly that I concocted an interesting no-flour peanut butter and chocolate something that I'm still waiting to cool off before I can test its edibility. I'll let you know. Anyway, with chocolate on my brain I finally came up with my blog name: Carpe Chocolatum. If you can't figure out what that means then...Google it.

So a little about myself. My name is Jen (and I can tell you that because we make up at least half of the human population and about a third of the pet population so I don't need to worry about my husband popping an artery). My husband's name is Chris (aha! Take that scaredy cat! Okay, another generic name) and we have four children, though two of them are more adult than child. I live on top of a mountain in Colorado but I'll keep that pretty vague as well. After all, it's not like you actually care, right?

Anyway, so I plan to use this blog for whatever fits my fancy at the moment. I am a woman of many hobbies...specifically I like to sew, write, read, and occasionally cook (meaning that I always cook but occasionally I enjoy it). I have a Facebook page for my sewing: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Petite-Poire-Boutique/284916846513 I'm kind of ADHD with my hobbies so I'm pretty sure this blog will show just how wishy washy I am with them. I might use this blog to rant about people...or my cats.

Okay, so my first awkward post is out of the way. PHEW!!


This really is the view from my dining room window first thing in the morning. It's the only reason worth waking up for if you ask me.


This is N...yes, she's very flexible. You'll see more of her.

Here's her sister, C...

Isn't she cute? Don't let her fool you, she's really kinda naughty. You'll see.