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Who doesn’t need some Epic Gift ideas to get moving on Holiday shopping? Epic Gift ideas for every person on your list? CHECK! Super simple, no mall shopping? CHECK! Different than everything else they’re getting? CHECK, CHECK, CHECK! DO NOT GIFT THE DOG!!! I shamelessly …
Win Christmas: Host the Best Holiday Open House! If you’re anything like most of us, your home is at it’s absolute best when it is decorated for Christmas. Now is the time to use it! Holiday Open House here you come… Why not host the …
Rum Balls make holidays a little smoother. Sure, Rum Balls are great anytime, but they are a perfect little ball of booziness on a Christmas cookie tray. These are a super easy version that only require 6 ingredients. They don’t need to be refrigerated and …
Eating easy during the Weekly Menu 12.15.24 because we’re leaving time for the really GOOD stuff ~ Christmas Cookies! We’re not making ALL the cookies during the Weekly Menu 12.15.24, but we are getting a start! I’m a little bit of a cookie monster during …
Weekly Menu 12.08.24 is here for the ride into mid-December! HOW can the Weekly Menu 12.08.24 already have us through half of December? We’ve been experiencing something of a snowmageddon here in Erieland this past week (see this GoErie article for deets) and one thing …
Our Weekly Menu 12.01.24 is the first in the official Christmas Season – Thanksgiving is behind us, and we’re charging full steam ahead towards Christmas. The Weekly Menu 12.01.24 post picture is from Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Portland Head Light is a historic …
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 …
“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.
