For (almost) as long as I’ve been alive, my parents have lived next door to my grandparents. And for a long, long time — not my whole life, but probably since I was in middle school — my grandparents have come over to my parents’ house every Sunday morning for breakfast. Back in the early … Continue reading
Is Thanksgiving breakfast a thing? No, right? You eat the smallest breakfast possible so you have maximum stomach room later in the day, right? Well, shoot. So, if Thanksgiving breakfast were a thing, this would be what you would make for it. This is like…stupid good. Ever since I got my Kitchenaid stand mixer, I’ve … Continue reading
I’m not sure if this has come up on the bloggy-blog before, but I’m an only child. And while I think us only children are unfairly maligned in a number of ways, I can’t help but admit that “sharing” is not one of our strengths. For me personally, it’s not that I’m bad at sharing … Continue reading
One time when I was six or seven, I found a big box full of strange-looking plastic disks in our basement. When I showed my parents and asked what they were, they started laughing — apparently they were old 8-track tapes, and I think it made them feel pretty old to realize that I would … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I learned something incredible — women look their absolute worst at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. Doesn’t that sound both crazy and also 100% true? According to the study, the wine you (probably) drank Saturday night, combined with the poor night’s sleep you (probably) got on Monday, combined with the extra stress … Continue reading
You’ve probably seen articles over the last few years talking about how the average age of first-time mothers has been steadily rising — by something like four years (from having your first kid at 21 to having it at 25) over the last couple decades. I think there are lots of reasons to celebrate this … Continue reading
I’m only slowly becoming a decent cook, but I’m not a baker at all. I think cooking and baking are left-brain, right-brain things. Baking is for mathy-sciencey people, for people who can handle precision and attention to detail, for people who like following rules (you know, for NERDS!). Cooking is for us creative types, us … Continue reading
My husband and I have fairly different vacationing styles. He likes to kick back and relax, and while I can do that on longer trips, when we’ve only got a day or two for vacation, my attitude tends to be HURRY UP WAKE UP SO WE CAN START HAVING FUN IMMEDIATELY! I’m a real treat … Continue reading
I don’t know about you, but we eat a lot of Fiber One Bars at my house. My husband almost always has one after dinner, and I probably have one most days, too. We like the peanut butter ones. I think it’s a pretty stellar snack – sweet and yummy, reasonable portion size, and actually … Continue reading
One chef I’ve just never made my mind up about is Paula Deen. She does seem like a sweet lady, and a lot of her recipes sound amazing. Even so, it really rubs me the wrong way that she’s spent years promoting all this incredibly unhealthy food, and now that she has diabetes, she’s making … Continue reading
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