There’s a reason I made all of those trays of lasagna one Sunday afternoon. Just so I could pull out a section from the freezer, re-heat it, and package it all up and send it off for my son to eat on the bus his way to ski club. Along with some just-baked oatmeal cookies. [...]
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I gave up yoga the very month of WoYoPracMo: 31 days of yoga. Skipping yoga this month wasn’t intentional –I simply began shoving off my yoga mat as a way to catch up, here and there, on some sleep and deadlines in a world that gives me so few hours of solitude. Then, I started [...]
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My family has discovered bacon grease, and it’s pointless to try and stop them. There is a glass jar full of rendered bacon fat on the top shelf of our refrigerator. The boys (my husband) uses it to pop popcorn. I’m sorry to admit this; but popcorn popped in bacon grease is but one thing: [...]
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Whether you’re making vegetarian with black or kidney beans, or chili loaded with beef, there are four magical ingredients to creating a deep rich flavor. The way you handle these ingredients is key. Here they are, in order of use. Tomato Paste: Add 2-3 tablespoons of tomato paste to your skillet as your are browning [...]
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I volunteered at school this week, and I was to ask children to count to 100, record how far they could count and any numbers they repeated or skipped. There were a couple of times when I got a little nervous about making it home that night. Two different boys did exactly the same thing. [...]
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His ship was arriving in a few days to take him back home. The war was far from over. He had read in a postcard from home that his baby sister had been saving a bucket of snow for him since Christmas – she was keeping it in the barn. Later, when she would take [...]
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A collectible Toa Mata Nui is now beginning its long journey to our home. Seven hundred seventeen miles, to be exact. Luckily the ebay seller provided me with a tracking number from Canada Post, as an Expedited Parcel. (Seller must have been reading my blog.) My frustration with Lego for introducing a toy in August [...]
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2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats 1 cup nuts 1/2 cup wheat germ 1/2 cup honey 1/4 cup dark brown sugar 1-ounce unsalted butter 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon salt 6 1/2 ounces chopped dried fruit. Frozen blueberries also work well. Butter a 9 by 9-inch glass baking dish and set aside. Preheat the oven [...]
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You’ve passed over the movie over a thousand times. The cover of The Bells of St. Mary’s is the classic black and white, with a picture of Bing Crosby, dressed like a priest, and Ingrid Bergman, dressed like a nun. The cover is so deceiving… it looks like a boring, staid out-dated heavy tome, when [...]
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