Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
I once had delusions of grandeur when it came to having my own Norman Rockwell moments with my kid. Once when he was about 3 or 4, I decided to go all uber-mom and bake gingerbread men. We were using a vegan dough, so no worries about salmonella or anything, and having just THE BEST…
My morning muse for this morning is Jennifer of YouPinspireMe, who was recently crowing about how you know it’s Christmas time when your post about 25 Ways to Display Christmas Cards suddenly gets a ridiculous amount of organic search hits (no I won’t tell you how many, but I had to go cry over a…
It’s the most bakingest time of the year! And naturally, we’re in our kitchens, because when you can’t figure out what else to get for the people who have everything, you always know that you can count almost always count on a cookie being a well-received holiday gift. I give them to almost everybody in…
Christmas is done, and we’re heading towards the end of 2014. It’s been a heck of a ride to Christmas time, between crushing deadlines, work, and cold and flu season. Finally come Boxing-day, we’ve all found a bit of breathing space and we’re all loafing on the sofa like we’re at the bitter end of…
Somehow the Christmas Paper Wrapping Fairy missed me when she was handing out life skills, and I’ve been struggling into my adult years with trying to wrap a present beautifully correctly without making a disaster of the whole thing. A good wrapping job, for me, involves not having any of the underside of the paper…
As I mentioned just earlier to some of my buds, I’ve been busier than Hammy (the squirrel from Over the Hedge) on an energy drink. This may or may not have something to do with a lot of homemade sweet gift drinks being taste tested. In fact this is about the only Christmas activity going…
I’ve been thinking about busting out my needles and yarn again… It’s been a while since I’ve done my crocheting. And some of these free patterns are totally adorable. Or maybe I’m just nesting. I am not sure. One thing is for sure, crocheting is something I can do, and all these other Christmas crafty…
I think part of the problem with Christmas is that we make it so about the kids we forget to cater a little bit to ourselves. I’m probably going to get myself tomato-ed for this, but we did the whole Kid Christmas movies incessantly last year, and one can watch the Peanuts Christmas special only…
I crave an elf on the shelf. But I do so for all the wrong reasons. 1 – I’d probably set the bag on the front stair and forget about it for three weeks, or until my kid snooped in the bag, saw the box, pieced everything together with his surprisingly logical little brain and…
I think I’ve been hanging around with Canadians too long, cause my first inclination in starting this post was to apologize for being sick and not having recipe content last week. And then I realized, hey–I put out some great content last week anyway. Plus you got two recipes the week before. So I think…