I’m joining in with Jessie and posting a family recipe today.  I’ll try to do this every Friday from now on…
I was going to post my mother-in-law’s recipe for Oatmeal Muffins, but first I saw her recipe for Victorian Gingerbread so I’m going to share it instead… its really divine!  The moisest, richest gingerbread you’ll [...]

So, this weekend David and I are going to a wine festival to do cleanup as a school fundraiser.  We get to hang out at the festival for a couple hours every day (free tickets), we get reimbursed for gas, meals are provided, and even the hotel room is provided.  All for a few hours [...]

Carina sent me a copy of the email she sent her coworkers about the weekend… I had to share, its too funny! (Hopefully you can see the pictures, my first attempt didn’t work.)

I know you’re dying to see pictures of dogs and children!  Penny and I had a great time in Virginia (strictly speaking, I [...]

Carina came up for the weekend and we had such a good time!  Most of the weekend was spent just hanging around the house and getting ready for Killy’s party.  It was so nice to have Carina there to help out!  Here we are, just before the big event:

You can see our helpers here… Penny [...]

(Okay, this was supposed to go up yesterday, but our internet  was down all evening.)
My sweet Killian is five years old today.  How time flies!

He was so perfect when he was born… I was 38 weeks pregnant and he was 19.5 inches long and 7 lbs 11 oz.  Labor was exactly 7 hours from start [...]

Is it really procrastination if you’re busy doing things, but they just don’t happen to be the things you planned on doing?  Today I’m planning on cleaning and vacuuming the playroom and the basement and making up Carina’s bed down there, but instead so far I’ve: planted butternut squash in the garden, weeded, watered all [...]