Easter’s Coming!

You know what?  It seems with every holiday meal/large family gathering, that old, tired “Green Bean Casserole” comes out of the woodwork.  Now if you are in love with it, more power to you.  But it just doesn’t crank my tractor.  I’d like to offer you a couple alternatives today to the old canned green [...]

Monday Q & A: March 17, 2008

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  And happy Monday morning to you!  I hope you all had a fabulous weekend.  I went into the weekend hoping for some more glorious spring-like weather, but unfortunately, I got thunderstorms. 
So let’s dish, how ’bout? 
Not many questions this week, but LOTS and LOTS of great comments!  Thanks so [...]

Weekly Menus—March 15-March 20

***deep heavy sigh***  It’s that time again!  Geez, Louise!  This is so bloomin’ hard!  I used to plan my menus a month at a time.  I had them all on a cute little calendar that I made in Print Shop.  I printed them off and then I put them on the fridge.  It seems I [...]

Spring is coming! And so is GRILLING!

So let’s talk a little about spring.  I actually wrote this post a couple weeks ago when we had our first weekend of gloriously spring-like-weather.  Yeah, that lasted all of about 5 minutes!  Two days later, it was so wicked cold it’s not even funny!  Then we had that freakish blizzard about 5 MORE minutes [...]

Happy Birthday, Moma!

Well, it’s March 13 again.  Today would’ve been my Moma’s 73rd birthday.  Wasn’t she beautiful?

Today was also supposed to be the birthday of BOTH my Ankle Biters.  Both of them were due on their Mamaw Cat’s birthday.  But they were also both very impatient and couldn’t wait that long to arrive.  And unfortunately, she didn’t live long enough [...]

Let’s Go Green!

Monday will be St. Patrick’s Day.  It’s also a couple other things.  I am co-conducting some training at work and then later that evening, I’m hosting a Premier Jewelry show at my house.  When I planned both these, St. Patrick’s Day was not foremost in my mind.  It just didn’t strike me until later that I’d scheduled [...]

True Confession

It seems some kind of little tummy bug hit Ankle Biter 2.  Night before last, he got up about midnight and informed me he’d thrown up in his bed.  He also informed me he had already stripped the sheets off the bed.  How sweet is he!?!?!?  This kid is the best “thrower-upper” I’ve ever come across.  [...]

Monday Q & A: March 10, 2008

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD morning, friends and neighbors! 
Last week was a great week for questions and comments.  You guys really came out of the woodwork!  So I just want to thank you for that!  I LOVE hearing from you!  It just blesses my day!
Let’s get started with those questions, shall we?
Dawn wanted to know the difference between kosher [...]

Family Fun with Fruit

We had a little fun at our house this afternoon.  Ankle Biter 1, Tall Skinny Man and I made a fruit arrangement.  Have you guys seen these things advertised on TV?  They’re fruit, but look like a flower arrangement.  I have always wanted to try my hand at making one.  So we tried it this [...]

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas……..

Come on!  Everybody sing!  SEE?  Looks just like Christmastime…….No?

Ankle Biter 2 went out onto the deck to measure the snow on the table.

Looks like about 7″! 
But now, wait just a cotton-pickin’ minute…….  It’s not Christmastime.  Not even close!  It’s MARCH!  The month of SPRING starting!  Spring, do you hear me!?!?!?!  Not BLIZZARD weather.  If you [...]