No one listens to me. I say that a lot. While mom-ing, it often feels like I’m talking into a black hole in outer space and as the words roll off my lips, they are sucked into the void, never to be heard from again. It’s aggravating, annoying and exhausting. By the end of most days,… Read More
From Tuesday noon until evening, about nine inches of snow fell in our area. Later evening, another 3 inches fell and it’s currently snowing more right now. Being a Midwesterner all my life, snow doesn’t bother me too much, barring a few minor stipulations. Snow is okay in whatever depth in December, January and early February.… Read More
One Valentine’s Day when I was young, my dad surprised my mom, my sister and me with a dinner made by him and my brother. He invited us by giving us handwritten invitations tucked under our dinner plates during a weeknight dinner. We all got dressed up and we turned down the dining room lights and… Read More
My mom and I discussed the attributes of a good fry the other day. When I brushed off oven “fries” as equal to fried fries, I explained that to me, fried fries and oven fries are in two different potato classes. Fried fries are crispy and crunch, all need an extra sprinkle of salt and… Read More
Tis the season for giant, bright, colorful and fringe-filled hearts. Extra points if it’s geometric. And fringe. That just puts it over the top. I am just giddy about this heart. As I was brainstorming projects, I wanted to make something big and bright and colorful that I could hang on our front door. The… Read More