When I was a kid I loved the day when the new books had come into the school library and the librarian would read us just a tiny bit of each one to get us excited to check the whole book out. I can still hear her voice tempting and tantalizing us as she left off at that last period. Well, today I aspire to do just that.

Really, it’s to share that wonderful experience with you, not because my baby gets up at 5:00 AM and I desperately want to go to bed, and I haven’t finished writing this story, and 30 days has November right? Egad this month is wearing on me. And...

I made jam! Well, jelly really. Pomegranate-Jalapeno Jelly. When my friend, Kiley, proposed the project, just before Desmond’s first birthday party, I might add, I thought “Heck yeah,” figuring it would be like homemade pasta or chocolate truffles- things that seem insurmountably hard, but are actually fun and easy. I was wrong. Actually, it was insurmountably hard.

If you want to find out what happens to Trina and Kiley and their Pomegranate-Jalapeno Jelly, check back in with Your Vegan Mom tomorrow. (Smug knowing smile as I turn around to get the next entry.)