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  • Mission Accomplished: Leftovers

      I’ve never been one to eat leftovers. I don’t really enjoy microwaving old food, even if it “reheats well.” But I also have a propensity to cook way too much food for a meal! (I’m hoping this trait pays off when I have 4 teenagers in the house.) These two characteristics of mine don’t Read more

  • A Sense of Accomplishment

    Do you ever put off a small task for so long that by the time you actually complete it such a big weight is lifted off your shoulders and your feeling of productivity is disproportionate to the rather small size of the job itself? No, just me? Okay. I can accept that. Example: We have Read more

  • A Fresh Start… (Reflections on the Whole30)

    A Fresh Start… (Reflections on the Whole30)

    Me: “Something’s been weighing on me. I need to change my diet and I’m thinking about doing the Whole30 again but I’m nervous it’ll make my milk dry up. I don’t know, maybe I should just give up sugar instead. Thinking about this is keeping me up at night.” Randy: “If I were you, I’d Read more

  • Centers! First grade & preschool

    These centers are for first grade and preschool. Here’s the breakdown week by week. Week 1: PRESCHOOL–color-matching with pom-poms and plates, puzzles, and number matching with unifix cubes. GRADE 1–long-vowel sentence matching, addition matching with unifix cubes, and word building Week 2: PRESCHOOL–shape-tracing with yarn, dot art (painting only using dots and the primary colors), Read more

  • Frozen, Candyland, & Cakes!

    I love parties!  I especially love hosting parties and small get togethers.  This is great for my children because it ensures that they’ll have fun birthday parties throughout their childhoods!  (That’s the plan, anyway.) But I’m almost embarrassed to say, that it may not just be birthdays that offer reasons to go all out for Read more

  • Almost Perfect

    I have a wide variety of circumstances in my head which would all constitute as a “perfect” morning, day, afternoon, evening, what-have-you. One such afternoon involves a LONG time spent perusing books at Barnes & Noble (one of my all-time favorite stores) with a venti latte in one hand and the hand of my love Read more