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Disclaimer: Post Foods has paid me no compensation; my mom thinks this story is hilarious. I was actually a good cook long before I had a son with food allergies (or at least, nobody has yet complained). Relatives who hate cooking mooch off me during the holidays (I like cooking so I don’t mind). I used…
Welcome to my inaugural #ThingsIReadThursday, because regular things like this are going to help me get through this NaBloPoMo challenge between recipe creation and my other work. I spend a ton of time reading on a bunch of different subjects every day, and sometimes I troll through some really interesting stuff. So it seems like…
Secret confession: to be perfectly honest, I thought the appropriate hash was NaNoBloMo, but after the first time I said it aloud, I could see how it was up for a revision. Whoops. I’m not usually predisposed to these various self-competitions, because what is the point, really? Heck, I wander around doing whatever I feel like…
Things haven’t been going well for three years now, and I’m over you. It’s not me, it’s you. I tried. I really did. I wanted to have a good relationship for the children. But you’re not meeting me halfway, and I find that I’m the one putting 99% of the effort into making this thing…
Riddle me this: how did we ever get the idea that carving pumpkins was a fun thing for kids to do? Pumpkin carving is an adult past-time, something that we do while having Halloween nostalgia about when we were kids and were able to go running around without adult supervision as late as 10-11PM with…
Today, I’m thankful that an accident at Thanksgiving didn’t cost me my son’s life. I am thankful to Pfizer, who makes the EpiPen–an auto-injector that may be responsible for the positive outcome of yesterday. I am thankful that my husband remained cool enough under fire and was brave enough to administer my son’s EpiPen while I was calling…
I wrote once about how putting my child into junior kindergarten was a nerve-wracking experience. There was so much to worry about with him, not least of which is making sure that he was being taught by great teachers. It took a lot of soul searching, but I ended up switching his school again this…
I can’t believe it’s almost the end of September already, because it feels like I had the BBQ for my husband. On the first. Like. Yesterday. Where did the whole month go? The heck if I know. While I’ve clearly been running around like a chicken with my head cut off, school has begun again…
Hey parents: not all PG-13s movies are rated alike. Just sayin’. This is foreshadowing, here. We had watched Pirates of the Caribbean on Netflix some time ago, and my then-five-year-old took that particular PG-13 movie quite well. He proceeded to watch it another 38,962 times, and made us go to the Pirate Museum in St. Augustine,…
I wasn’t able to scrape together the funds to get to BlogU, BlogHer or BlogHer Food this year (we’ll try for one of them next year, crossing fingers), but there’s one more bloggers conference of this year in October that I’m going to make sure I get to. It’s Canadian, and just in Mississauga, plenty…