So The Kitchen Just Exploded

My head is spinning, my knees are weak, and my hands can’t stop shaking. I feel as though I just ran a mile. Or five. How many calories does one really good adrenaline burst burn anyway?
Where to start…
We were in Olivia’s room. Reading books. I thought I smelled smoke, but [...]

Meet-and-Greet Monday: The Birthday Party

(See also: the year in pictures.)
I’m taking the easy way out. With my newer, faster Internet, I can do such fun things as upload directly to Picasa! And then embed a slide show! With over 50 pictures because I don’t want to take the time to decide the keepers and the losers!
Enjoy!
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To [...]

To Benjamin:

Apparently, you don’t want me to write this anymore than I. You’ve become the master of micro-naps. Currently, you are asleep in the sling.
Whoop, no, awake now. And quite sweaty. But in a rosy pink, could-you-get-any-cuter type of way.
You’re staring up at with with your studious blue eyes and furrowed brow. [...]

“Natural” Facial Remedies … Debunked?

On the heels of my last post (I debated the singular form of ‘heel’, but decided ultimately that my last post had two heels, as I do), comes an article claiming natural food masks to be “useless, unproven or harmful.”
Since I received some comments suggesting a couple of the “debunked” food remedies (honey, olive oil), [...]

Have You Heard Pandora?

It’s my motivation during the day.
Because sometimes I need some motivational music to get me off my duff and get stuff done.
Pandora.com is, and I hesitate to say this, because it’s quite the understatement, an online radio, of sorts. Since 2000, it’s been hard at work on what it calls the “Music Genome Project,” [...]

Recipe Swap: Dinners - Fancy Schmancy

Here’s a meal I’ve made… twice? Maybe three times. It’s, in my opinion, a culinary masterpiece. (It involves making your own sauce.)
(Which I’m sure many of you do on a daily basis.)
(So maybe this meal won’t be all Fancy-Schmancy for you.)
But, due to the time involved, and the fact that everything is [...]

The Natural Mommy Ponders Makeup And Baby Soap

Before shopping CVS and Walgreen’s I didn’t wear much makeup. I couldn’t afford it. All the ladies in my bible study, MOPs group, church did. And they wore it well. I felt a bit like a hillbilly grade schooler transplanted into an O.C. high school.
Then I started getting makeup for [...]

Meet-and-Greet Monday: Easter Edition!

Sometimes I feel my Meet-and-Greet Monday posts fly under the radar. Maybe no one really cares to see pictures of the most beautiful children ever. And then my brother-in-law yells at me. And I feel loved.

Step Two in Dying Easter Eggs (after hard-boiling them, of course):
Color liberally with crayon.
(No, you didn’t skip [...]

Our Very First Just-Our-Family Holiday

It caught me completely off-guard, by surpise, I did not see it coming.
I just assumed my mom would come.  And she would make it a magical Easter.  Just like all those magical Easters of my youth.  Where the eggs hid themselves.  The baskets filled themselves with candy and green plastic grass.  The ham hopped into [...]

If You Would Be So Kind As To Enter This Giveaway…

Phil & Ted’s Sport Buggy with Double Kit
Retail Value: $429.95!
(I would never pay that much for a stroller.)
(Which makes it SUCH A GOOD GIVEAWAY.)
Here’s a snippet:
The sport has a sleeker feel thanks to new tailoring and great new additions such as a ratcheting handlebar to accommodate parents of different heights, a redesigned [...]

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