Stories

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

December 23, 2012

This holiday season, I have found myself (on more than one occasion) in deep discussion with my kids. Conversations provoked by recent happenings both in Connecticut and here locally. They had a lot of questions for me. “Why would someone do something so terrible?” and “What can we do about it!” from my teenagers. ”Why [...]

A Heaping Cup Of Beautiful

October 21, 2012

This fall my family and I have been fortunate to spend a lot of time together at beautiful Bear Lake. The weather has been unusually warm considering it’s the end of October! The leaves have all changed color here in our neck of the woods and most of them have fallen to the ground laying in [...]

The Swimsuit Story

May 11, 2012

No recipe today, dear reader. Just a little story to put a chuckle in your heart and a smile on your face. Because it’s Mothers Day soon, and I know you like to giggle on Mothers Day, don’t you? I thought so. Me too. Last month I gave the key note address at The [...]

Bake and Visit

November 21, 2011

This past weekend my dear friends and I held a bake sale. It’s an annual kind of thing, five years running now. During the weeks preceding the event we get together and bake and visit and bake and visit and eat five dollar pizza and let our kids play with Lego’s and bake some more [...]

MyTeenSonMark

July 30, 2011

Tomorrow…. is my boys birthday. He’s a fan of this here Zuppa Toscana and Olive Garden Breadsticks. He told me he’d sure like a nice slice or two of some Blueberry Sour Cream Pie… And “Couldn’t you make that really awesome frozen ice cream pie thing that tastes like lemonade?” were his exact words, [...]

The Story…of Spiderman. Undies.

June 2, 2011

Post Disclaimer: Yes, this is another story. Please do not read further if you hate funny stories and only want to read about food. New recipe coming up tomorrow, just for you. June Menu Plan found HERE. A few days ago my LittleTwinBoys and I were on our Weekly Grocery Shopping Excursion Extraordinaire. Shopping with two [...]

What a Wonderful World

May 14, 2011

I have mentioned before, that having twin boys who are 4 years old is pretty wonderful. Just today I had a little flashback, if you will. A memory of sorts….. My twin boys had recently mastered the art of walking. It was early in the morning and I had just gotten my older kids off to school. The phone rang. The [...]

Frazzled Mothers Day Confession

May 7, 2011

Well now…don’t those lemon bars just look pretty enough and tempting enough to gobble right up! Go ahead and give them a try if you love to pucker up your lips tight….. and say things like “Wowwwwww Zowwwwwiieee that is a lot of lemon….. pass the water.” If you also love lemon bars that get [...]

What tweeners say…

April 15, 2011

If you had a girl… who had a little curl… right in the middle of her forehead. (Just pretend….she had a little one when she was just one) And if she was good, she was very very good. And hardly ever horrid. Hardly On her happy birthday, you just might find yourself driving her [...]

Easier. Not Easy.

January 19, 2011

I would, just for the record, like to announce that having twin boys who are 4 years old is much easier than having twin boys who are 4 days old… 14 months old… or even 34 months old. Now don’t get me wrong. I didn’t say it was EASY to have twin boys who are [...]