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Recently I’m enjoying cooking sweets !     I’ve never been into it before because personally I prefer to eat salty taste foods to sweets. Sweets are good sometimes, maybe it’s good to eat once or twice a week, but not always.  But my husband Ray eats Muffins every morning for breakfast.     He even puts creamy raw honey and whipped cream on top of it, which makes it even more sweet.  And looks like he is in a heaven.      He can eat sweets any time as a meal or snack. My image of Muffins is for afternoon tea time snack, and we were buying some muffins for snack, but since about several months ago, Ray changed his breakfast menu from cereal to muffins.  And we were always buying many kinds of muffins   such as blueberry muffins, banana muffins, etc.. in a super market. While I was looking at the recipes of many kind muffins, I found it not so difficult to make, like cheesecake. ...

Happy New Year , 2013 !   I wish 2013 will be filled with love, good health and happiness   for everyone in the world. The area I live in the USA   gets super dry especially winter season.  I had been trying many kinds of skin care for dry skin since I started living here. Actually, even when I was in Japan, I was always looking for something good for curing my dry skin problem. And a few days ago, I happened to find a Japanese discussion thread which talks about skin care cream. Guess what ? It’s Nivea .  Yes, original version of Nivea cream ! I suppose everyone knows that product. I was using Nivea cream when I was a little girl until I became 18.    Little girls are often curious what their mother is doing. In my case, it was my step-mother who was in her 20S at that time.  She was always doing her skin care with Shiseido-cosmetics with her make-up box with mirror after took a bath...

Today, I would like to talk about life.  This post is going to be personal.  Until when I was around late 30S, I thought death mostly happened when people became senior ages.  Or people who are much older than me.  My dad died at the age of 46 when I was 14.  My mother died at the age of 60. Since I left Japan, and started living in the USA, several my relatives passed way, who are my grandmother ( 89 ) and three uncles (82, and 70S )  And this year, the most recently, my older brother who is only 2 years older than me passed away.  He was 51years old.  It was very shocking and made me sad.  In my childhood, I grew up with him in the same room.                                        My brother (10) and me ...