Happy Thanksgiving
I'm feeling very thankful this year, how about you? Big Thanksgiving hugs to you! P.S. 2 year old art projects above. Don't you love kid art?
Read MoreI'm feeling very thankful this year, how about you? Big Thanksgiving hugs to you! P.S. 2 year old art projects above. Don't you love kid art?
Read MoreDid you love advent calendars as a kid? My mom always hung them up for us, and we loved opening the little doors every day in December until Christmas. We always had paper calendars, but I recently bought this one from The Land of Nod
Read MoreIf you know me well, you know that I love to clean. I've been resisting hiring a house cleaner for years because, oddly, I think I'd miss cleaning my bathrooms. I'm aware that this makes me sound like a nut. Anywho
Read MoreToday this little 2 year old walked up to me and said, "mama, you're my best friend!" So I am posting that here, so that when he's 14 and wants nothing to do with me, I can have this moment to remember. I love you,
Read MoreAfter I saw this photo, over at My Favorite Things, I've decided that I want to donate my kitchen light fixtures to Goodwill and exchange them for old vintage lanterns. So gorgeous, huh? P.S. I think this kitchen is just about perfect. Swoon!
Read MoreHappy Halloween! We went out for sushi (random) and came home and passed out little packs of organic gummi bears to the trick-or-treaters (no, I did not consider giving out bags of carrot sticks) while the kids ran around in their costumes (one bumble bee and one turtle) and we munched on these pumpkin seeds that I had roasted earlier after the pumpkin-carving extravaganza. Here’s the easy recipe …
Here is a little photo of my entryway table, piled high with mail and coupons and FedEx envelopes. A metaphor for my life right now? I think maybe. Sturdy and sure, and cheerful (um, most of the time!), but sometimes scattered. P.S. Don't you love
Read MoreAren't they cute? I was wooed by a carton of fresh, organic cranberries at the store today, and after I put the boys to bed, I made a big batch of cranberry muffins. I don't know how this happens, but I always bake when I'm
Read MoreTonight I was feeling lazy. Not order-takeout-lazy, but, yes, too-lazy-to-make-a-big-dinner lazy. OK, enough with the laziness. But if you really want to break this down: I wasn’t in the mood to make meat. (I’ll write about my husband’s carnivorous ways in another post.) After last night’s carne assada, yeah, I was feeling so over meat. So, after thumbing through the new issue of Real Food (I’m on their comp list, and I love it! Such a pretty magazine–with lots of gorgeous ideas), I found the perfect meal. A frittata! But not just any frittata. This one was made in a pie pan with a brown rice crust. How cool is that? Recipe to follow…
I was visiting Inchmark recently, a blog I adore, and came across this little photo. Of course, I gasped. I don't remember what issue of Martha Stewart Living it's from, but I knew it instantly--it's the photo that started my obsession with white dishes. Martha
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