How much do you love coffee? If you’re like most Americans, the answer is: A lot. Or, more accurately (for me, at least), you don’t so much love coffee as you aren’t sure what you would do without it. You NEED it, like the grungy addict that you are! Why...
The Fair at Home: How to Make Funnel Cake With Pancake Mix Every year, we pack up the family for a trip to the Florida State Fair, even though Busch Gardens is less than ten minutes from our house. Why? Well, c’mon, there’s just something different about the fair – something...
Like pretty much everyone else in the Western world who wasn’t gifted with a NASCAR-like metabolism, I’ve had my share of experience with the various diet fads that come and go through our culture. Yes, I’ve tried the grapefruit diet. Yes, I tried the infamous Beyonce master cleanse diet. I...
I don’t often spend time on here talking about meals (or crafts) that I don’t personally enjoy, but I’m going to make an exception this time to talk about hard-boiled eggs. I can handle eggs, but I’m a scrambled kind of girl. If you can manage to get some cheese...
Three Fall Cocktails to Sip While Watching the Leaves Change Color I know I said in an earlier post that I didn’t quite understand when my friends would complain about having to send their children back to school, but I wasn’t entirely honest. Don’t get me wrong, I do cherish the...
Cream of Wheat Recipe Time: No Fork Required! I went out to dinner last week with Mr. B (43), Little B (12), and The Precocious One (6) – one of our first ventures to a restaurant since the dreaded COVID LOCKDOWN last spring. Was that only last spring? It feels like...
A Great Corn Nuggets Recipe – Delicious Southern Fried Cooking When I was 15, my dad got a job with a regional accounting firm and we had to move away from Tampa, where I was born and raised, to our new home in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Now, the move from Tampa...
A Cold Foam Recipe to Share With Your Neighbors (Or Not!) I have to talk about my neighbor across the street. Her name is Sylvia, and she’s from…Greece, maybe? I’m not entirely sure. It could be Russia or Slovenia or that country where Borat is from. Hey, I never said I...
A Refreshing Mexican Mule Recipe For the Dog Days of Summer I have a terrible habit of buying all the wrong stuff when I go to the grocery store. We’re lucky enough to live just around the corner from the supermarket, and that luxury has spoiled me. Seriously, it’s only about...
At breakfast the other morning, my six-year-old boy (whom we like to refer to as The Precocious One) took a break from his cereal to earnestly say that he hoped not to get pregnant when he got older. “I don’t think I would like that,” he mused, stirring his spoon around...
