What happens when I decide to try a new recipe? Chaos. No doubt this is a common occurrence when somebody who can’t cook decides to try a new recipe but why does it always have to happen to me? Or maybe it’s the fact I want to try two new recipes in the same week.

The first recipe requires a teaspoon of fresh chopped parsley. After wandering endlessly around the produce department, an employee took pity on me and asked … Read More »

It can’t be April already. Not only April, but the fifth! How does this happen?

We started the month with record-breaking high temps for the beginning of April. We had the first family cookout of the year Saturday–16 adults and 17 kids–and I think it hit eighty. Came close on Easter Sunday, which is just bizarre.

Speaking of Easter Sunday, some of you might recall the Short Kid’s Child of the Corn routine. He did it again yesterday morning. … Read More »

Let me show you it…

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It kills me. And I share the electrical ones with my husband, so it kills him, too. It’s part of the I Can Has Cheezburger family, so it’s on the awesome (since the new update) ICHC app.

Pundit Kitchen is still my favorite member of the ICHC family, though.

I spend WAY too much time with the ICHC app!… Read More »

I had to run into Walmart this morning because—just before bedtime, naturally—TK told me his fancy graphing calculator thing needed batteries. And, of course, while we have an overabundance of AA, he needed AAA.

So I’ve been shopping at this Walmart a long time. I can tell you precisely how long, as a matter of fact—on July 22nd, it will be fifteen years exactly. Random thing to know, right? But I was suffering the beginnings of labor pains while walking … Read More »

Every Tuesday brings new book releases! I woke up this morning ridiculously excited to get my hands on Instant Temptation by Jill Shalvis, only to be crushed when I realized I’m a week early. To take the edge off my disappointment, I preordered it, which is something I rarely do with digital books.

FYI, the digital preorder price at B&N for the nook is $1.96 cheaper than the digital preorder price at Amazon for the Kindle. I think only … Read More »