Over the weekend, while my dad was in town, my sister and two nieces gathered at my house for a big pre-holiday family dinner. When I’m feeding a crowd, I really don’t like to use regular dishes because the clean-up afterwards takes as long as the food preparation before the meal….Especially when the dishwasher is…
Smiles for Grandpa
Despite the fact that two of my children refused to smile for this group picture with Grandpa on Sunday and were sent to their rooms (darn kids ruined a perfectly good photo for posterity) this picture makes me smile. I smile because I can hear the kids playing and laughing with Grandpa. I can picture…
Big Girls Need Their Daddies, Too
When I was a little girl, small enough to still fit on my dad’s lap, I needed my daddy for many things. I needed daddy to help me with my math homework, to put a band-aid on a cut, to reach something high on the shelf. Daddy was big and he was strong and he…
Mourning my Microwave
When CandyMan and I got married in April 1995, one of our first purchases on that big wedding-money-shopping-spree was a microwave. I purposefully bought the largest microwave I could find, with all the bells and whistles, similar to this GE Profile, because I knew that we’d be using it a lot. And I wanted something…
Link Up Your Giveaways Here!
Winner Announcement: Jennifer from MommyB Knows Best won my Stella & Dot giveaway…Congratulations!! The My True Nature Bath set giveaway is still on, and needs more entries. It ends on Thursday, December 16. Plenty of time to get your entries in! This week will bring some pretty amazing giveaways, including a very special pillow and…
Favorite Holiday Recipes
I have been cooking for the holidays for 14 years now. Most of the dishes that I cook for the holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter) are the dishes that were my favorites when I was growing up, attending big holiday family gatherings. So, for your eating pleasure……the Better in Bulk favorite family recipes: Grandma Betty’s…
Daily Disposable Contacts by Bausch+Lomb
Necco has been wearing glasses for about 3 years, and honestly never really complained about it until big sister, KitKat, got contacts over the summer. KitKat adores her contacts, and as you might expect from a younger sister, Necco was envious of them. The tables turned a little in November when Necco had a mid-year…
Kaplan Tutoring – One Month Free
Raise your hand if you feel inadequately prepared to help your children succeed in school? Have you ever faced a child’s homework assignment that looked like it was written in a foreign language? As a college-educated woman with a degree in education, I was confident that I would be able to help my kids with…
Newborn photography
The plan was to blog about the gingerbread house that my kids put together the other day. It was the shortest-lasting gingerbread house in history. Not only did the kids decorate it with frosting and candies, but they sprinkled it with Oreo crumbs (dirty snow?) and ate it immediately. They saved me the hassle of…
Boy Crazy
I’m recording my youth, one year per week. This week I’m talking about life in the 7th grade (age 12). As a mother of daughters in the 6th and 9th grades, it is a little disconcerting to think back on my middle school and high school years. Granted, like my own daughters, I was a…
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