I am a God in the kitchen. 🙂 Today I successfully mastered the art of chicken stock. Being a thrifty girl at times, I have tried over and over to make homemade chicken soup with homemade chicken stock. Yet I have always found my homemade stock to be SEVERELY lacking. […]

We had company tonight, so I tried something new with some Mediterreanean olives I had sitting in the fridge. They are good olives- just not special, and I have A LOT of them. I took about 2 TBS of red wine vinegar, salt, pepper, dried rosemary, and some lemon zest […]

Today was just a good day. I spent most of the day with Andy and Zander- and Abigail when she wasn’t at school. Andy got today off- so Abigail was super excited to have Daddy here to walk her to and from school. It’s just been a pleasant day. I […]

Yesterday after school I cleaned out Abigail’s lunch box (as has become daily habit). I was dismayed to find out she hardly ate anything at lunch- a few bites of sandwich, two cookies, and some Cheetos. Her apple remained untouched, her juice box untouched, and most of a sandwich, in […]

I think we don’t eat enough eggs. I can’t tell you how many time I open the fridge and think, there’s nothing here to eat. Yet there is always a carton of eggs. So today I made myself a little fritatta for lunch, and I have to tell you, it […]

Today has been a nice day. After the hectic last few days, Andy and I mostly relaxed and didn’t do much. We went to church, watched a bit of football, I went to church this afternoon to do my weekly cleaning, and neither of us wanted to work too hard […]

Today is mine and DH’s 6th anniversary! Six years may not be very long, but it’s sure been a busy 6 years! We have gone through 3 moves and 2 children have come into our life. It’ sbeen a ride, that’s for sure. We’re not doing anything special today, we […]

Today Andy’s parents arrived from Buffalo to spend the weekend with us. We had a nice visit this afternoon- and the kids had a very fun time with them. That was so nice to see. I was worried that it would take Zander all weekend to warm up to them, […]

Just thinking about this morning brings tears to my eyes. I took Abigail for her first day of Kindergarten today. She woke up this morning with the biggest smile on her face. She gave me the biggest hug- I almost started crying right then. I had decided to make waffles […]

On the bulletin board that I frequent, there is a very kind gentleman who goes by bob. A while back bob shared the most wonderful dish- a lentil and potato stew. Oh yum. And every time I make it, I wonder if I make it just like bob does, and […]

I love pudding cake. It has to be one of my all-time favorite desserts and comfort foods. As I posted a fabulous blueberry pudding cake a few weeks ago, I thought I would share two other favorites of mine. The first is a delightful lemon-blackberry pudding cake. This one is […]

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