Quieting my Halloween Grinch

Quieting my Halloween Grinch

Halloween has never been tops on my list of occasions to celebrate. I don’t really enjoy dressing up in costumes. I certainly don’t enjoy being scared. And knocking on people’s doors to ask for candy was always a little stressful for me as a kid. Sure I wanted the candy. There’s no question about that. [...]

You Like Me. You Really Like Me!

You Like Me. You Really Like Me!

When it rains it pours is the saying. Only in this case it’s pouring good things – blog awards! I received my very first blog award from Nikki over at The Chocolate Mousse. I have to say I think that she has the best named blog around. It makes me crave dessert every time I’m [...]

Mmmmmm. Cake: Wednesday of Few Words

Mmmmmm. Cake: Wednesday of Few Words

It took us fours days to eat our way through the cake that I made for Em’s birthday. I used two boxes of cake mix (I don’t make cake from scratch) to make a cake for only a few people because I felt the need to make her a caterpillar cake – a caterpillar with [...]

Nellie’s All-Natural Products

I’m trying to be more ecologically conscious these days. It seems like the responsible thing to do – especially since I have kids now. I would like to make sure that they learn how to take care of their planet better than I ever knew how to when I was growing up. For me part [...]

One Year

One Year

Em, you are one. One! The cliches are flying around in my mind. Time is so strange. In the moment when your kids are having melt-downs all around you time seems to last forever and yet a year can fly by so quickly I can hardly believe it’s gone.  One year ago, while I lay [...]