I woke up Sunday morning with a dream right on the edge of recall. I was all dressed up and alone in a hotel bar, waiting for Tim. We were supposed to be going to a wedding reception together and I sat alone nursing my cocktail while watching others around me with scrutiny. One woman…
School Days
I will always remember my third-grade program. Beneath the harsh neon lights of the cafeteria stage I sang my heart out to the song “Calendar Girls”. The stinky boy right in front of me told me I sang to loud. I replied “too bad”. I had a little solo and was so happy to sing…
By Searching
So… Sometimes I look at the stats for this here blog. Yeah, yeah, you know you do it too. I think it’s kinda fun just to look at what people search for that brings them to my little space on the big ole inter-webby. Many times it’s just general stuff, like my blog name or…
Almond Chocolate Cherry Clusters
I like to eat chocolate. A lot. I also really like things that only take a few ingredients to make. Like these: I actually found this little recipe in a magazine a few years ago and adapted it just a bit. There’s not much you can change on a three-ingredient recipe but I managed it….
Old School Blogging, August
Well kids, we are changing things up here a bit this month and asking for pictures (and words, if you like) of your FRIDGE. What is on that bad boy? You got pictures? Lists? Kid art that is just TOO fabulous to toss? Christmas cards from two years ago? Birth announcements of kids that are…
Chicago Through my Lens
On the Saturday afternoon of my trip to BlogHer in Chicago, I had to get out and use my camera, much like the first time I was there in 2009. There were many brides out that day, in Millennium Park and the weather was amazing, only 64 degrees. That’s unheard of in summer where I…
I know someone else at the gym wants my body too…
There is a woman who belongs to my gym/club that has a super rockin’ body. Whenever she is in front of me on any apparatus in the large cardio room then I am guaranteed to watch her for a bit. My eyes gravitate towards her. And don’t lie to yourself (or me) and tell me…
I just couldn’t stay away…
I had not planned to go to BlogHer at all this year. All along I was not going but still asked Jen to save me a spot in the hotel room “just in case” because we had so much other stuff going on this summer. But then as people started to show up on Wednesday and…
Udi’s Gluten Free Breakfast
I think perhaps I have mentioned that I am not much of a morning person. I mean, I am all for morning happening except I really wish I could just stay in my bed, asleep for most of it. But of course having three kids and living a full life does not allot for…
Shaving Cream Selections
After we got back from our vacation to Canada I was nothing short of hungover. On the Sunday after our return I was no better than I had been after my days in college where “trash can punch” was the main course of the night. I stayed in bed until somewhere around 1 p.m. while…