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I feel like I should apologize for my frequent food posts the past few months. My life sort of revolves around food right now. I have been eating. A lot. I have had a lot on my mind lately and many potential blog posts running through my head. Some of them are kind of serious,…
I don’t know about you, but the hardest part for me about cooking dinner has nothing to do with cooking. It’s simply coming up with the ideas for what to cook. I go through spurts with my meal-planning efforts. Sometimes I plan out meals for a month. Other times, I do Sunday planning sessions for…
On Friday, someone from my church posted a message on Facebook that more than 60 orphans from Haiti would be arriving at O’Hare International Airport and they needed places to stay. My first reaction was, “My house would be way too small to help.” I’ve been a little consumed lately with the idea we need…
Last night, I served my kids one of my favorite comfort food recipes. It’s officially called “Meat and Corn Bread Squares”. But I think we will rename it Corn Bread Chili, since it’s basically chili mixed with corn bread in a pan. I wasn’t sure if my kids would eat it, but all three reported,…
My son has a hard time with spelling words. So, in the past I did what any good mom would do. I would make him practice writing troublesome words over and over again. And over. And over. But this year, we are trying something new. Instead of writing the words, I let him do what…
I have so many favorite recipes, but I often have to go on a search to find them when I need them. Some are in cookbooks. Others are on the Internet. And others are stored on little pieces of paper tucked somewhere in the cabinet. Recently, I’ve started using my own blog to find recipes…
I’ve never been a girly-girl. I can’t remember ever in my life wearing a bow in my hair. I don’t think I’ve ever owned a ribbon. I look horrible in pink. My favorite colors are green and brown. I was born 16 months after my older brother and spent most of my childhood playing outdoors…
I have been feeling like a new person the past few days. Babycake has been giving me some four- to five-hour stretches of sleep at night. And the doctor took care of THE string, which has allowed the incision from my C-section to finally start healing. I actually took all four children on our first…
I’m on sort of, what you might call, a high-sugar diet. I like to keep a steady stream of sugar flowing through my veins pretty much all day long. I start each day with two cups of hot tea, each loaded with two tablespoons of sugar. I then follow that up with a can of…
I’ve been trying to work on this math problem all day in my head. Maybe you can help. There was once a mom who had 24 hours in her day. She attempted to sleep for 8 hours, in various shifts throughout the day and night. 24-8=16 She nursed a baby 8 times a day for…
