Carrot & Stick Press has long been a favorite resource of mine for fantastic gifts. Elegant, classy and with a little bit of sass, you cannot go wrong with a stack of their notebooks for a recent high school graduate or a box of their notecards for your best friend’s birthday. Throwing a dinner party? [...]

I love corn. So does my husband and our kids. Particularly real corn, fresh off the cob, in the summertime. There are so many ways that you can prepare it, all delightfully different. Breakfast. Soup. Salad. Dessert. Amazing, isn’t it?
And while I know that the fresh, sweet corn season has just about come to a [...]

I spent most of the morning, while Pea and Coco were helping their Daddy hang some shelves in a closet, on the Internet, digging around for lunchbox meals that were healthy, appealing and easy to prepare. What shocked me the most is that there was such an abundance of ‘recipes’ centered around, what else, peanut [...]

Pea’s school is over at 12:30, but I am supposed to send her with a lunch. This is the same schedule she had at her Fort Worth preschool, and so I always opted to send her with a lunchbox filled with a healthy and hearty snack, rather than an actual lunch. I prefer that when [...]

I do not like macaroni and cheese. Something about it does not sit well with me. Perhaps it was the nearly two-year run in college, when being a broke student, I ate it at least four times a week? That just may be the reason that the mere thought of it these days makes my [...]

Okay. It is no secret that I am obsessed with food. Not in a bad way, either. I don’t have food issues. I am not afraid to eat. Nor is my husband. And we’ve passed that trait on to our kids. We love food.
I adore everything about food. Shopping for it, cleaning it, preparing it, [...]

Last night, I had the brilliant idea of letting the girls make their own pizzas for dinner. I had a couple of small Boboli pizza crusts in the bread box, which I always have on hand, for those surprise pop-in visits from other kids in the neighborhood. So I pulled them out, along with a [...]

In order to make these six weeks sans husband fly by, I just knew that I was going to have to book up the family’s social calendar. So it’s been a long string of play-dates and barbecues these past two weeks. It’s been a lot of fun, somewhat exhausting, and totally delightful to feel such [...]

Pea’s little Ducky Lunch Bag was lost today, at a park. She went with her camp on a little picnic, and it simply went MIA. Not a big deal, at all. This is the first item of hers that’s ever been lost, so I’d say we’ve done pretty well. But sentimentally, it’s tugging at my [...]

So this is going to sound cliche, I’m sure, But cliche? Not so bad if it’s actually doing something good, right? Here goes… I’m trying so simplify life over here. Yes, you read that correctly. The ultimate consumer is on a down-scaling binge. It’s too much. There’s just too much stuff in my home. In [...]

My husband loves pizza. Almost as much as I do. And although his preference is for deep-dish, and my preference is for a simple New York slice, we do see eye to eye on one thing… It has to be good. Really good. No Tombstone frozen pies over here. And so as it happens, right [...]

My husband’s new barbecue grill arrived on Monday. He couldn’t get it into the backyard fast enough, he just had to fire it up and test it out. What is it with guys and grills? I won’t get near the thing; it’s intimidating. Gas. Matches. So close to the house. Not for me. But I [...]

We had a busy holiday weekend, as I’m sure that most of you did, too. Fireworks on Thursday night with the girls, a parade on Friday morning, and then more fireworks on Friday night. There were a lot of daytime catnaps, late night meltdowns and good times were had by all. And everything was punctuated [...]

I can’t remember exactly how I found out about the online magazine Sprig. I know it was via Meredith, but I can’t recall if I saw a link to it on her site or if she emailed me about it. But however it was, it was a really great find. I am in love with [...]

We don’t have air conditioning in our house. Can you imagine? I could not. I’d never heard of such a thing. Of course, I did move here from Texas, where I’m pretty sure it’s illegal not to have air conditioning. But here, in our little corner of Utah, it’s usually not a problem. Summer in [...]