I think Beth Anne over at The Heir to Blair has something with this Friday Brain Dump thing. What else am I going to do with all of my half-baked blog posts?? Speaking of baked… 1. Sugar wins: Despite all of my attempts to bake healthy stuff, the very unhealthy Kentucky Butter Cake (which will be posted Saturday, hopefully) and hubby’s Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake overtook my diet. The healthy muffins got moldy. Of course I didn’t realize this until after I popped one in my mouth. Ew. 2. Camden is a saver: I am pretty sure Camden is saving all of … Continue reading

  Dear Camden, my little pooks, it’s hard to believe that you are 5 months old already! It seems impossible that it was 5 months ago that you came into our lives; mine, dad’s, and brother’s, and made the world a smiley, happy, goobery place. Our lives just weren’t quite complete until you came along. Tyler was lonely, dad needed his baby fix, and mom needed, well, we’ll just call it  perspective. You solved all of those things for us, just by existing! But you do so much more than exist. You light up our lives with the tiniest things … Continue reading

Back in 2010 when I got my first iPhone, I gave my iPod touch to my then 7 year old with instructions to only download free apps. One $21 iTunes bill later, I discovered the world of “in-app purchases”. I wrote an article for Mom Logic about the experience and despite my 78 Facebook likes, a few moms were less than gracious about my ignorance. Well after having several iProducts for the last 2 or so years I have learned a thing or two about how to use all of the awesome settings to a) make sure the thing doesn’t … Continue reading

Winter Vacation is officially over and Tyler has returned back to school. It has been a busy three weeks of holidays, family, friends, baking, and just plain tomfoolery in this house. As much as I am really big on having a schedule, I’m really going to miss having my big guy around screwing it up. There will be no more 8 am leisurely wake-ups (if such a thing is even possible with a  4 month old), hot lunches for two, mom can so-and-so come over, or alarms going off while I’m in the shower because somebody wants to hurry and get their … Continue reading

Who doesn’t love a good old fashioned sloppy joe?  I grew up on their yummy tomato-ey ground beef goodness (remember when school cafeteria lunches were delicious? Or ground beef was cheap?). The most awesome part was the bread options: open face, sandwich-style, ghetto style on toast (’cause buns cost extra), chopped up with bread like warm panzanella (more like goulash, panzanella was definitely not in the 80′s housewife vernacular). The first time I resurrected the meal, I served it up to my family ghetto-style because we simply don’t need all of that bread or the inevitable bread pudding I would be forced … Continue reading

Today my 8 year old son was given the opportunity of a lifetime: he went to and photographed the Rose Parade in Pasadena, CA! I have lived in California my whole life and have never actually been to the parade. My sister-in-law lives, as it turns out, 50 ft from the parade route on Colorado Blvd and invited Tyler to stay the night and see the parade the next day. They took a walk the night before and Tyler was able to capture the pre-parade excitement as people camped out to stake their claim on their seats for the parade. … Continue reading