The calm before the storm (the baby storm, that is)…

Enjoying a sip of wine, my honey and a bonfire on our honeymoon.

Jamie and I make our couples cooking column debut today over at the fabulous, must-read site, MyScoop! Jot down our tips and promise to make Jamie’s scrumptious Pumpkin Mousse Tiramisu with your boyfriend/husband/sig other/puppy this holiday season.

“Newly married couples around the globe face a holiday obstacle so great, so profoundly intimidating that they question the spirit of the season, the meaning of family–each other.

When the entire clan gets together, who cooks Christmas dinner and how?“

Hubba, hubba… He’s my husband and chef for early morning, mid-day and late-night pregnancy cravings…

Two lines!

Surprise!

Jamie and I are expecting a baby girl. (Trust me, you’re not as surprised as I am.) Little Parker Lee will come into this world in late spring. My doctor and my agent already call her “the next Belle in the Big Apple.” Let’s hope she has her mamma’s persistence and her daddy’s sweet temperament… 

For wedding, baby and where-in-the-heck-is-Brooke’s-life-headed?! details, skip over to newest section of my website, HITCHED!.

I’ll try for fewer surprises in 2009… 

“Brooke Elizabeth Parkhurst and James Joseph Briscione

are delighted to announce

that they were married

November twenty-third

two thousand and eight

in a small chapel at sunset

Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina”