You will when you taste this salsa! It’s phenomenally out-of-this-world. If you plan on watching the Superbowl tomorrow, this would be perfect. It would be perfect even if all you plan on doing is reading a book and eating in bed (that’s my favorite! Although I hate getting salsa on my sheets.) This tastes best […]
You probably have one of those rooms in your house that was OK a few years ago and you frankly haven’t given it another thought since then. That was my living room. When we moved into our house ten years ago (a record for us as the most time ever… Read More We have a sofa […]
It was Mister’s birthday last week. The poor guy is just dying because he is in his forties. I know! It’s super old (just kidding. I’m only a year and a half from the big four-oh myself). I wanted to make his birthday really special so I gave him the best present I could think of […]
I have a special talent that I have almost perfected. It’s shocking how fantastic I am at it, really. I somehow manage to lose things a dozen times a day. If only I had a dollar for each time I said. “I just had it two seconds ago!” Today’s total madness is being caused by […]
Our car trip around the South continued on from western North Carolina to the eastern part of the state–to the farm of our friends, the Browns. Heather and Craig Brown (and especially their kids) were good friends of ours when we all lived in Utah. They have since moved to North Carolina and traded their […]
The perpetrator (also a victim of his own crime): Goodbye hair. We will miss you!
Talk about famous! My sister-of-a-friend blogger, Stephanie Nielson (the one who got in the plane crash) got a write-up in the New York Times. The article is about the blogging community that has rallied around her since her accident. It was in the honest-to-goodness newspaper, not just the online version. Wow!
It’s Makeup Monday! Which means it’s time to talk about makeup! Or in this case, nail polish. Women seem to fall into two camps: fake nail afficianodos and people who don’t really care all that much about their nails. Before I had children I loved to get my nails done… Read More
Just about every day we go swimming in one of our neighborhood pools. If you have kids and are a frequenter of public pools you know how impossible it is to keep track of swim googles. Every summer we start out with one pair for everybody and somehow by the end of the summer we’re […]
Yesterday I went to see LaLa Land (normally a hater of musicals I can’t believe how much I loved it. Like, seriously, loved) and as I walked out of the theater I thought that it will definitely be on my top 10 list of movies for 2017. Although really it… Read More
Oh, hey! Remember me? The thought of editing all my daughter’s wedding pictures to put on this blog caused me so much stress that I never did it. Procrastinating is my superpower! So here it is exactly three years later and I figured that I might as well just get it done. I still think […]
I’m very much a Type-B person and I don’t like planning things far in advance. I’m not Type-B enough that I never like to have a plan–I really, really do. I love having a plan!– I’m just allergic to having one long before it’s needed. Settling down and committing makes me very nervous and cagey. What […]
I don’t know why I do this to myself every year. I get some idea in my head for cute Valentines for my kids to give out so I hit the craft store and buy all the necessary stuff. And then I make the food to go inside (because it’s Texas, a lawless frontier where […]
I was pulling into the convenience store this morning to get myself a Coke Zero (it has just been one of those mornings. The kind where I feel like a giant exhausted slug) when I noticed a big Doritos truck. I remember as a kid passing trucks full of potato chips and wishing that they […]