There are a few words – beyond the typical swear words – that are forbidden in our home. They are not necessarily offensive, and are used often in everyday parlance. But since I’ve become a mom, I’ve become sensitive to these words and have thus issued a household ban on them. The first and foremost […]
Just a funny aside…
Seriously, the holidays, followed by a bout of stomach flu, has left our house, well, trashed – for lack of a better word. I feel some New Year’s resolutions coming on…
Butternut Squash Soup
When I was in grad school in DC, there was a market nearby that I would visit in between classes for lunch. They served the best butternut squash soup I had ever tasted. Combined with a slice of crusty bread, it was the perfect lunch on crisp fall days. Unfortunately, we don’t have any “crisp” afternoons […]
Chocolate & Peppermint Bread
Each year, it seems our neighbor/friend gift list gets longer and longer. I suppose it comes naturally with living somewhere for a while. You make more friends and acquantances over time. The problem is that we have a fairly limited budget for Christmas, so after making our list, I figured out that we could spend […]
Tags
It has kind of become an annual tradition with the kids to make our own gift tags. Last year’s were so fun to make, I didn’t know what we would do this year. Luckily, my Christmas present this year is a Cricut machine (bought on deep discount on Black Friday). So I broke out my […]
Christmas ornaments
Every year I try to get the kids to help make an ornament for the Christmas tree, and every year I do all the work. So this year, I tried to find something that they could at least partially help with. I can’t remember where I saw this idea, but it looked easy enough for […]
Christmas Activities
Each year for our advent, I put together a list of activities to do with the kids. Here’s this year’s plan: 1 Get out and play with Little People Nativity set 2 Go see Santa & play at the mall 3 Make decorations for tree 4 Make candy covered Christmas trees (out of sugar cones/icing) […]
November Garden
I haven’t posted a garden update in a while, mainly because the summer heat ravaged the garden and pictures of shriveled plants are not so exciting. Luckily, I slacked off on pulling out the dead looking plants and now we’ve got garden-fresh tomatoes! Who knew we could grow tomatoes in November? There are larger ones which […]
A tried and true recipe
Because I know you all are dying to know how it is I catch every bug that comes through town, here is my top secret recipe for getting yourself (and your kids and spouse) really, really sick. The first ingredient you need is a really nasty virus. Where you pick this up is up to […]
National holiday
Today is a little holiday {hardly} known as “Make Your Bed Day“…a holiday we obviously don’t observe. We will, however, be celebrating tomorrow’s holiday: “Chocolate Milkshake Day“. Yep – that’s one we never miss!
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