Continuing on my theme of Valentine’s Day, while Cookie napped and John helped Honey in the basement Saturday afternoon, I caught up on Desperate Housewives and, feeling much like Bree, whipped out Martha Stewart’s Felt Fortune Cookies. The link has her explicit instructions, but I worked with supplies I already had on hand and simplified… Read More
I love love love holidays and Valentine’s Day is no exception! I have already starting decorating, crafting and making lists of things I want to do, make and bake between now and February 14. First on that list was a new wreath for my front door. I used to have loads of wreaths that I… Read More
I LOVE Reese Witherspoon. So much that I would call it a girl crush. She’s elegant, stylish, entertaining, a mommy… and so, so Southern! I first “met” Reese in Pleasantville. I really got to know her (and desperately idolize her) in Legally Blonde. I will never forget the bend and snap, I own the Barbie,… Read More
We said bye bye to the bottles thirteen months ago, but this ghastly plastic drying contraption lived on. Every day (yes, you read that right) when I performed my most dreaded chore of unloading the dishwasher I piled loads of sippys, tupperwares and other various items that came out a tish wet into the plastic… Read More
A few months ago I started a tradition we call Sunday Supper around these parts. I make a yummy meal, not necessarily fancy, and we eat in the dining room off of good china, use the silver, practice our manners, have John lead prayer, and just enjoy each other’s company. Even when the company involves… Read More
I intended to post these pictures days ago but was unnaturally busy after being snowed in for ten days. Well, that and the fact that three days of dancing Thriller with the kids (all wii owners of my “generation” simply must have the Michael Jackson Experience) left me sore from the rooter to the tooter.… Read More
A blogger “friend” of mine (well, she doesn’t actually know that I exist but I have stalked her blog for months now) does a super hysterical segment every now and again called “I Hate What You’re Wearing.” Actually, most everything she writes is pretty hysterical and her blog is definitely worth checking out. So…while John… Read More