I hate that saying because making pie is really complicated.  Maybe that’s what the phrase is supposed to mean.  That something is very complicated and time-consuming.   I don’t really care much for pie; particularly fruit pies (why would someone want fruit in their dessert–unless it’s lemons?)   But I do make a few great […]

We are still unemployed around here. Not fun. Tempers flare easily. But even with that there are still blessings. We know the Lord is watching out for us even though The Big Blessing (a great job) still hasn’t happened YET. Namely because in the last week: 1) Mister has gotten a couple of decent consulting […]

I don’t want to go to bed even though it’s midnight because I don’t want it to be tomorrow already.  Know what I mean? P.S. I have crumbs in my cleavage.  I guess I got a little too excited about the warm homemade bread tonight.

I am proud to say that in twenty-one years of raising six children, I have been a soccer mom for a total of four months. In case you didn’t know, I don’t like being outside when it’s cold. Or hot. And being a soccer mom entails sitting outside in all sorts of weather that is […]

I don’t have a TV so I know very little about the whole movie theatre shooting. I do know that a lot of people are upset about the Colorado parents being judged about bringing little kids to movie theatres. While it isn’t the most important issue in the theatre shooting, I do think it needs […]

I was hoping that Google would change their minds at the last minute and not get rid of Google reader. Too bad, so sad! They did get rid of it. But the (semi) good news is that until tomorrow you can export your blog lists to another blog reader. After that you’ll have to find […]

Finding this in our driveway last week jogged my memory of having a smidge of a mouse problem when we lived in Utah many years ago.   Our house was down the block from a huge vacant lot meadow. As you can imagine the critters living in nature sometimes got… Read More

  Have you ever had fabric that was just a little too white?  Maybe you’d prefer an item to be ivory or off-white and it’s stark white instead? Or maybe you want something to look a little more antique than it currently does. This happened to me and I looked to… Read More

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 was released in 2016 so […]

Dear Selwyn, Sorry things are so yucky for you right now with the ex being a douche bag. Here is the recipe for the amazingly wonderful Cream Cheese Brownies to help you drown your sorrows. I would send you some but you live in Australia and they would taste wretched by the time they arrived. […]

Mother’s Day is a difficult day for a lot of people: there are the people who want to be mothers but can’t; the people who have lost their mothers; people who are estranged from their mothers/daughters; mothers who mourn the death of a child; and mothers who feel like they have totally failed at their […]

I like shopping at the local grocery store chain called H.E.B. Their prices are decent, but the reason I prefer them over the national chains like Safeway or SuperTarget (although I do like SuperTarget) is because they have all sorts of local brands.  Plus they have a huge assortment of Texas-themed products.  If you need […]

Adelaide Amelia Clementine turned eight last week. Turning eight is not just any birthday if you’re Mormon. That’s when we get baptized. Mormons believe that babies and children automatically go to Heaven if they die, so baptism isn’t a requirement until kids are old enough to really understand the difference… Read More

I’m wild about polka dots. I love them always, on everything. Polka dot nail art was the first thing I wanted to learn how to do when I started getting more into nail design a couple of years ago. I would read all these nail blogs and wonder how in… Read More