Menus, recipes and tips to make every day your best day
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 …
Caramel Apple Cream Cheese Dip is a mouthful every way! Don’t know what to bring to holiday dinner? Impress your friends and family with this ridiculously simple Caramel Apple Cream Cheese Dip. It’s perfect for Thanksgiving and Christmas – no need to vie for space …
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 11.24.24 helps you plan for one of the best food weeks of the year~ The Weekly Menu 11.24.24 covers not only Thanksgiving but the run-up to it and, maybe more importantly, what to do after the big day. What’s your favorite part …
This Roasted Sausage, Pepper & Potato Sheet Pan Dinner is easy to make and easy to clean up. I was in a real hurry one night, so I tossed the sausage with the potatoes and some pepper and onions before roasting for half an hour. …
We’re making homemade bread during the Weekly Menu 11.17.24 to acknowledge, you guessed it, National Homemade Bread Day on Sunday. Maybe National Homemade Bread Day during the Weekly Menu 11.17.24 is designed to prepare us for Thanksgiving. This year, Thanksgiving is almost as late as …
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 11.10.24 celebrates National Fast Food Day with knock-offs and the recommendation to pick your fave! The Weekly Menu 11.10.24 gives us permission to eat fast food! National Fast Food Day is on Saturday when I recommend going hog wild and heading to the fast …
We fall back during the Weekly Menu 11.03.24, and sunset will be earlier. Comfort food will make dusk shine~ Daylight Savings Time ends during the Weekly Menu 11.03.24. There are only two positions on the slowly dwindling hours of sunlight leading up to the Winter …
“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.
