I’ve been kind of blah lately…These are some pictures that I’ve taken that remind me that I have plenty of reasons to smile. Playing footsie with Chew is one of the best parts of my day. My son bought me this mug for Mother’s Day. I love it. This is my rose bush. It’s gorgeous … Continue reading »
The Lucky One
I am The Lucky One. I wake up every morning feeling lucky to live my life. I’ve been lucky in some ways for a long time-I mostly like my job, I have friends and family that love me, I have two happy, healthy children; but I never felt truly Lucky until I started dating my … Continue reading »
Never eaten a No Bake?!
This has been a comfort food kind of week. The kind where you want to live on chicken pot pie, eggs, and ice cream…or that all time favorite of my childhood…big Amish-made sugar cookies broken up to little pieces in the bottom of a bowl covered by some ice cold whole fat milk. Yeah, that … Continue reading »
Bagel bombs are the bomb!
We made a batch of these last night and they were delicious and amazing. Try them.
Mollet Eggs Florentine a la Jacques Pépin
My hubby has been on a little bit of Jacques Pépin kick since watching one of the Essential Pépin episodes featuring eggs. We eat a lot of eggs….each one of us has a favorite way to eat our eggs (soft boiled, over easy, scrambled, hard boiled). I may actually have to change my former favorite … Continue reading »
Eggs make (almost) everything better.
Friday night I had a great girls’ night with an old friend. I came home happy and relaxed. I walked in my back door and my heart just sank. My poor little old Shar Pei, Caleb, had a big swollen neck and he reeked of infection, even though he had just finished an antibiotic for … Continue reading »
Things I love about NJ
Back when the hubs and I first started dating my friends and I called him various code names…the chemist, blackberry boy, and most simply-New Jersey. I swore up and down to them that I would never move to New Jersey…because Jersey is so…icky and Snooki and Guidice. He would swear up and down that his … Continue reading »
My Grammy’s Coconut Cake
My Girl loves to be in the kitchen. She either wants to be an artist or a scientist when she grows up, but I’ve been trying to convince her to be both and be a baker. Isn’t that what we’re supposed to do as mothers…force our dreams on our children?. It’s not that much of … Continue reading »
“Easter Cake”
Yesterday I was having trouble convincing the Boy to go to the store to buy ingredients to make my grandmother’s coconut cake for Easter dinner. He wanted to stay home and play on his pajamas, and he doesn’t like coconut, anyway, Momma. Ok…..I promise he and I can make a special no-coconut dessert. I propose … Continue reading »
Days off and PB, banana, chocolate smoothies.
When you work at home, you are always at work. That’s why taking a day off sometimes means packing up the evidence of work in a trunk and shutting the lid! The PB, Banana, Chocolate Smoothie– The hubs idea but requested by monsters this morning. I feel a little better about the store bought Pop … Continue reading »
