Good-bye 2017, year of being chaos-adjacent.

Dinner of cheater fettuccine Alfredo, which both picky eaters enjoyed. Note: try adding shrimp next time.

NYE dessert is a birthday celebration for a stuffed cat. This year she turned twelve, per my daughter. (Never mind that my daughter is only eight.) We made devil’s food cake cupcakes from a boxed mix because that crap features in a Nintendo game my daughter is playing and sometimes from scratch just isn’t in the cards. We used cat-shaped silicone baking molds. Amazingly, they worked! I greased the heck out of them, dusted with cocoa and no decapitated cat-cakes! Those buggers will haunt my dreams though. Punishment for using the boxed cake mix…