{"id":1523,"date":"2010-05-27T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/its-still-busy\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:35:57","slug":"its-still-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/its-still-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s still busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I know; I&#8217;ve been neglecting my blog lately. Having grandchildren here so frequently has taken a lot of time and, as I explained before, it&#8217;s just a busy time of year for our family. I haven&#8217;t even worked on my Winding Ways quilt in days. \ud83d\ude41 But yesterday was my husband&#8217;s birthday, and we had our family dinner at our elder daughter&#8217;s house. I took the dessert &#8212; and completely forgot to take a picture of it! Ack! It&#8217;s really a shame, since it was truly pretty, and now all that&#8217;s left is one lonely piece. \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2728.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"243\" width=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2728-300x243.jpg?resize=300%2C243\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">This is what&#8217;s left of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.createdbycj.com\/cooking\/2010\/5\/27\/white-chocolate-raspberry-cheesecake.html\" target=\"_blank\">White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake<\/a>, and it&#8217;s worth every last calorie! You may just be able to see that there&#8217;s raspberry sauce marbled through the cheesy filling, and of course there&#8217;s more raspberry sauce dripping down from the top. I have to say that raspberry is one of my favorite flavors, and this combination is just <i>so<\/i> good.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">If you&#8217;re interested in making one yourself, just click on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.createdbycj.com\/cooking\/2010\/5\/27\/white-chocolate-raspberry-cheesecake.html\" target=\"_blank\">CJ&#8217;s blog<\/a> and get her recipe. You&#8217;ll thank me, really you will (though my hips may never forgive me).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know; I&#8217;ve been neglecting my blog lately. Having grandchildren here so frequently has taken a lot of time and, as I explained before, it&#8217;s just a busy time of year for our family. I haven&#8217;t even worked on my Winding Ways quilt in days. \ud83d\ude41 But yesterday was my husband&#8217;s birthday, and we had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[192],"tags":[47],"class_list":{"0":"post-1523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kitchen","8":"tag-food","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2728.jpg?fit=640%2C519&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-oz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5727,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/14\/latest-makes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1523,"position":0},"title":"Latest makes","author":"Sandy","date":"September 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been busy! 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