Lemon Olive Oil Cake
One of the highlights of my day of baking was definitely this lemon cake, which seems difficult but really only takes a few minutes of prep and basically uses…
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Maybe Means Yes: Will’s Birthday Wish
In our house, the kids have a rule: “Maybe means yes.” So when Will asked for a VR headset for his eighth birthday and I said we’d consider it, he heard something very different.
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I Tried to Have a Sleepover With My 3-Year-Olds. I Lasted Until 9:05.
I had such a cute idea. This is how most parenting mistakes begin. I decided that James and Kate, my two three-year-olds, could have a sleepover with me in the guest room.
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Will Has Entered His Hacker Era
Will is not allowed to play Geometry Dash on his computer. This seemed like a fairly straightforward parenting decision.
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Still here, 19 years later.
Sugarlaws began in 2007 as a place for Katy to write down what she was learning to cook. Then it grew: into baking, into fashion week and beauty tutorials, into dinner parties, travel and, eventually, family life.
Almost twenty years on, it holds an enormous record of what she cooked, loved, wore, photographed and built. Some of it is timeless. Some of it is very much of its year. All of it is still here.
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