Menus, recipes and tips to make every day your best day
Guinness Braised Beef might possibly be the best use ever of beef chuck roast. This started out as a Saint Patrick’s Day menu item, but it quickly became so much more. It’s easy and super tasty, but so elegant it would make the best dinner …
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Top of the evening Dinner Menu! Our Saint Patrick’s Day Dinner Menu couldn’t be easier – or more traditional. Sure, Corned Beef is always a good choice, but for something a little different continue reading. You can serve this meal for …
How to make dinner colorful: Sweet and Spicy Carrots! Sweet and Spicy Carrots take your meal from the mundane to the colorful! Carrots are so under appreciated. They’re cheap, good for you and super colorful. What’s not to love? The carrot (Daucus carota) is a …
During the Weekly Menu 03.02.25, we’re prepping for Lent with a party and delish meatless dinners! Our Weekly Menu 03.02.25 (finally) has Lent showing up. It’s almost the latest it can be~ How is Lent calculated? Originally Lent wasn’t always 40 days, as it first …
Dinner should be as effortless as a hot-air balloon ride—float through the Weekly Menu 02.23.25! We’re up, up, and away. WHY are there hot-air balloons on the Weekly Menu 02.23.25? Honestly? I liked the picture. Then I looked into it further and got information about …
We’ve got permission to celebrate during the Weekly Menu 02.16.25~ and it’s Tequila-based! Drum roll, please: National Margarita Day shows up during the Weekly Menu 02.16.25. Yippee!! I told you it was huge! I’m just going to say it one more time: I love tequila. …
We’ve got festivities all week during the Weekly Menu 02.09.25~ We are partying during the Weekly Menu 02.09.25! Hello, Super Bowl Sunday! Hellooo Valentine’s Day! Now, I have to admit, I don’t love either of these celebrations for the actual reason that I’m supposed to. …
There’s a rodent on the Weekly Menu 02.02.25, hopefully peering out and NOT seeing his shadow. We’re not consuming the rodent on the Weekly Menu 02.02.25. We’re just including a cute, very chill picture of same. But guess what? You can eat them, and they’re …
The Weekly Menu 01.26.25 combines two ideally suited special days~ What days are we celebrating during the Weekly Menu 01.26.25? You can probably guess one from the post picture, dear reader. Hot Chocolate! Can there be a better time of the year to get that …
“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.
