Holidays

Happy 2012 to all my faithful and supportive readers!  If I was a drinking woman, I would raise my glass to your amazing success for the upcoming year.  So instead, I raise my glass full of this...

Baking with my kids is always a such a long process and the results are never picture perfect.  However, baking Christmas cookies with my four year old this week humbled me a lot.  The pure joy...

About a year after my hubby and I were married, we attended a Christmas party with a large group of other newlyweds.  For the white elephant gift exchange, everyone brought the worst/most outrageous...

Dear Santa:   For Christmas this year, there are many things I would like: Double oven, flat-top electric stove New sofa Cuisinart food processor Alaskan cruise with my hubby Clothes...

4 weeks.  That's it.  28 days until my fairly organized and scheduled life comes crashing down all around me.  I like to think that since I have done this five other times already, I am...

Today was the first day of kindergarten in our school district and sadly, I sent off my baby girl Elisabeth.  I'm not a particularly emotional type of mother, but sending my kids to kindergarten for...

So how was the movie?   You don't know what I am talking about?  You have to know because according to my two teenagers, EVERYONE was going to the midnight show for the new Harry Potter...