Smart Menus. Easy Recipes, Mom-Level Hacks
How to Thanksgiving 101 has it all: a traditional menu, recipe links, ideas, cheat sheet, decorations and tips to help you plan and enjoy your best Thanksgiving ever. Whether this is your first time hosting or 50th. If this is your first-ever foray into making …
Apple Galette sounds super elegant doesn’t it? It looks even better, so only you need to know you used a tube of pizza dough for the crust. It makes for a slightly chewy and not too sweet dough that lets the apples shine through. …
Novice Thanksgiving gives you the excuse, not that you need one, to not do everything by the book. It means cutting down the Thanksgiving invitation list to the bare minimum. This might be the first time you’ve made Thanksgiving Dinner, the first time making it …
The Weekly Menu 11.15.26 celebrates National Fast Food Day with permission to pick your fave! The Weekly Menu 11.15.26 gives us permission to eat fast food! National Fast Food Day is on Monday, when I recommend going hog wild and heading to the fast food restaurant of …
We’re giving caffeine a little extra love during the Weekly Menu 11.08.26~ National Cappuccino Day starts the Weekly Menu 11.08.26 out right! Sunday, November 8th is the big day, and I’m there for it. I drank coffee for many, many years, until I had to …
It’s national “what time is it, actually?” day during the Weekly Menu 11.01.26~ We leaf (how punny am I?) Daylight Saving Time behind during the Weekly Menu 11.01.26. As usual, there is a big hoopla in the media about how many people want to leave …
Halloween howls onto the scene during the Weekly Menu 10.25.26 ~ The Weekly Menu 10.25.26 is blessed with Halloween on Saturday, so we need to get prepped for it. I adore Halloween. I’ve been dressing up (off and on) for most of my life. I …
We’re doing a super light dive into the Last Frontier during the Weekly Menu 10.18.26~ Alaska Day falls during the Weekly Menu 10.18.26 – this year it’s on Sunday, October 18th. What is Alaska Day? It celebrates the anniversary of the day the territory was …
It’s Columbus Day during the Weekly Menu 10.11.26, and we’re avoiding any controversy by talking about boats. Columbus has become a fairly polarizing figure of late, but the banks and post offices are still closed on his day during the Weekly Menu 10.11.26. Instead of …
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” Elizabeth Stone
The job I enjoy more than any other is that of being a mother of three sons. I’m sure girl babies would have been fabulous too, but the boys. Ah the boys. The fights. The smell. The fart jokes. The giggles about words that should be innocuous. The sports watching. The sports playing. The sports knowledge. The swagger. The dirt. And the cuddles. My Lord, the cuddles. How could anything possibly be better than the smell of our baby boy’s breath?
Then they grew and grew. At each point I wondered how could anything be better than this? And they grew even more and matured and it was. Better every moment, every day. There was and is a constant stream of change, and we get to experience the absolute joy and absolute heartbreak of seeing them becoming their own men. How did that even happen?
We have truly been gifted with the very presence of these boy/men: unbelievably smart, loving, kind, funny, happy. Even when they are away from home, learning to live their own lives, we are enthusiastic observers and happy participants in the big decisions and frustrating occurrences they share with us.
I read years ago that becoming a mother meant forever having your heart go walking around outside your body. A small price, really, for the unbelievable joy that being a Mom has brought.
