Y’all. Boise is a lot colder than…well, Florida or North Carolina, where I spent the last 25 years of my life. It hasn’t been as bad as I feared before we moved here…thanks in part to a few of my favorite cold-weather items. If you like neutral colors and hate being cold, read on. This…
Everything Else
If you’re a clean person, this post is not for you.
I’m messy. But I don’t want to be messy. I have Pinterest boards devoted to minimalism. I purge things (just…not as much as I hoard things). Our current house has set me up for success with abundant drawers and cabinets. But I still naturally function with organized-ish piles. And for some reason I have a…
Lately.
Gluten-free homeschooling mom from Idaho. This is my real life byline. …I did not see this coming. 😂 In the last 7 months, we moved across the country to Boise, Idaho. We decided to homeschool. And we found out one of the kids has celiac disease. A few weeks ago I went on a trip…
More Ice Cream Please.
It’s summer, we’re on vacation this week, and also I started a new little part-time job. There hasn’t been much blogging, but there has been ice cream. And so I decided it was probably, definitely worthwhile to compile a list of my favorites for you, you captive audience, you! Haagen-Dazs Dulce de Leche, aka the…
My Go-To Gifts for Girls Age 1 to 5.
I’ve wanted to do a gift guide every year. I’ve successfully (“successfully”?) done it once – but hey, I still stand by my one-item gift guide of 2015! This year, I’m focusing on my main area of expertise – gifts for girls! My daughters are 6, 3, and 1.5, and every item on this list…
Food for Thought #14: June & July.
1.// In an awesome head-in-the-sand, I-don’t-need-my-calendar-in-the-summer move, I just found out my oldest daughter starts kindergarten on August 15. In my head her first day was in September, and I kinda feel like I just got cheated out of 2 weeks of summer vacation! She’s over here dancing around the house in her backpack, though, so she’s…
Food for Thought #13: May (okay, December-May).
Heeey! I’m back – and I have a new favorite category of food in my life. Let’s call it “food that tastes good but you don’t have to do anything”. Or maybe we can come up with a more streamlined title?
Food for Thought #12: November.
1.// I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving and you got to eat all your favorite Thanksgiving foods with your favorite people! I personally like to have turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and gravy all in one bite. A lot of times. :o) 2.// I accidentally missed my own anniversary – the blog turned 2 in October!…
Food for Thought #11: September & October.
1.// You guys! It’s November! How did that even happen? My bebe is 4 months old and she pretty much brings out the best in all of us. Also: my oldest turned FIVE and I get to do fun things with her like relive my childhood through Shrinky Dinks (affiliate link).
Food for Thought #10: August.
1.// Our library has such fun activities! We went to a preschool math and science event that was all about exploring water. I keep meaning to recreate this station at home – fun little objects frozen in big blocks of ice, with lots of scoops and spoons and pipettes for excavating!
Food for Thought #9: July.
1.// So, yes, it’s a bit more mid-August than end-of-July. July was kind of a blur, and included a week where Jay was out of town for work. I deserved two of those little ice cream cones each night he was gone, because reasons, and also they’re way easier to eat while pacing the downstairs…
Baby.
She’s here! And she’s teeny (and makes my big girls seems SO big) and loud and she has sweet fuzzy hair and perfect lips and she concentrates really hard on a lot of things with dramatic eyebrows, and we all love her so much (the girls beg to hold her even when she’s screaming). We’re…
Food for Thought #8: May.
1.// I’m less than a week from my due date with our sweet girl. We can’t wait to meet her! I’ll try to keep posting recipes this summer, but I’m going to be doing more baby snuggling than cooking in the coming weeks. :o)
Food for Thought #7: April.
Just a little dance show at our favorite park! 1.// I’m a few days early on my FFT post, mostly because I’m trying to perfect a Mother’s Day recipe for you.
Food for Thought #6: March.
1.// Have you tried Yummly yet since I said a lot of words about it? :o) 2.// New recipe successes from March: we loved this one pan rotisserie flavored chicken on potato gratin from RecipeTin Eats SO much. The potatoes get an amazing top crust from the chicken juices, and they taste super decadent even though it’s…
Food for Thought #5: February.
1.// There has been some glorious, spring-y, sunshine-y weather around here lately and it makes me the happiest! We go on lots of (painfully slow) walks through the neighborhood pushing baby dolls and collecting acorns, gumballs, leaves, and other debris nature.
The Kindness Antennae (ebook GIVEAWAY!)
Congratulations to JEN for winning a copy of The Kindness Antennae! This giveaway is now closed. :o) Many of you are probably already fans of Happy Home Fairy, one of my favorite blogs for fun kid crafts and games, free printables, and general mom encouragement and hilarity. Julie, aka the Fairy herself, is a friend…
The Perfect Bowl of Oatmeal (Part 2).
Thanks to all of you who entered the giveaway from last week, and a big congrats to the winner, Linda! :o)
Food for Thought #4: January.
First, a side note: apparently publicizing healthy eating habits and how you love to eat vegetables for snacks produces a curse where you only want to eat things like Oatmeal Creme Pies and store brand chocolate chip cookies (I mean, they were there) and make detours to the new donut store that is dangerously close to your house….
The Perfect Bowl of Oatmeal {GIVEAWAY!}
When I was in high school, I got the chance to visit Australia. Our group stayed at a camp for part of the time, with a hearty camp breakfast in the morning (Vegemite on toast, anyone?). They made the most wonderful, creamy oatmeal, and I ate multiple bowls of it every day. The texture was just so perfect…
Real Food: a journey.
When I was pregnant with my second daughter, who is now 18 months, I was gaining weight at lightning speed. I was still in my second trimester and I had already hit the high end of the recommended total weight gain. Oops? I was afraid that carrying even more extra weight would exacerbate pregnancy symptoms (like, for instance,…
Food for Thought #3: December.
1.// That’s the view from my in-laws back porch on Christmas Eve. Seeing my girls roam around out there is one of my favorite things! We spread out our Christmas celebrations over almost two weeks, and I love that temporary suspension of real life. And and – I got to see Newsies on Broadway and relive…
Old-Fashioned Gingerbread.
The world/internet has some disagreement about what “gingerbread” is…is it a house? A runaway man? Or is it a dense cake full of warm spices, preferably topped with large dollops of whipped cream? I vote #3.
The Gift of Popcorn.
In my lovely planner, where lots of plans take place, I had jotted a note to myself about putting together a “gift ideas” post. And yet here I am, the week-before-Christmas-week, with a gift idea, singular! Yay?