Menus, recipes and tips to make every day your best day
Looking for easy meals to make while staying home and “home eating”? We’ve got you covered with breakfast, lunch AND dinner! All of a sudden you have to make three squares for people that are always hanging around. Here in Erieland, courtesy of the Covid-19 …
I’ll say it again: You do not have to be female to celebrate Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day Dinner is a time to celebrate any caretaker that is special to you. They don’t have to be your Mom. Or even A mom. Sure. It can be …
For real: Oatmeal Macadamia Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies are fully loaded. I love serving cookies for dessert after a big meal, because they are a little bite of goodness. I don’t need to do anything but make some coffee, put out a …
Weekly Menu 05.04.25: A spicy Paloma in One Hand, Enchiladas in the other ~ ¡Salud! If Cinco de Mayo isn’t officially a food holiday, it should be—because during the Weekly Menu 05.04.25, we’re leaning all the way in. I’m starting things off with my take …
Weekly Menu 04.27.25: The Kentucky Derby Dinner Lineup You’ll Want to Bet On I’m not exactly racing during the Weekly Menu 04.27.25, but I am showing up hungry and fabulous for every meal, especially when Derby Day hits. The Kentucky Derby might be “the most …
Weekly Menu 04.20.25: Easter Eats & Our Birthday Dinner Twist We would normally start the Weekly Menu on 04.20.25 with a big Easter dinner. The house is decorated with all sorts of Easter symbolism, and the Easter Eggs are colored. Of course, that begs the …
Weekly Menu 04.13.25 is loaded with the kind of meals I wish we had when we skipped Easter dinner for a panic attack at the Grand Canyon. Why are we sticking around beautiful Erieland for the Easter Holiday? Many moons ago the five of us …
The Weekly Menu 04.06.25 features Caramel Popcorn! Why? Read on~ National Caramel Popcorn Night during the Weekly Menu 04.06.25 means we have a fun dessert in our future! We have a couple of gourmet popcorn stores here in beautiful Erieland, but we found a simple …
We’re adding a little mischief and mayhem to the Weekly Menu 03.30.25~ April Fools’ Day is on Tuesday during the Weekly Menu 03.30.25, and we’re thinking of mixing it up a little bit in honor of the fun day. WHY is April 1st April Fools’ …
“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.
