I have a vague memories of drinking juice as a child. I probably drank the sickly sweet orange-juice like liquid the milkman delivered to my grandmother’s house in England. Note…it likely had little to no actual orange juice, but I…
Category: Family Dinner Time
Spicing up Dinner with Filler Free Spices [Giveaway]
I’m not an adventurous cook. If I deviate from a recipe, well let’s just say the end result is not pretty. My husband is a better cook. Grilling is his thing. Between the two of us we make a decent…
Soaking in the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel
Fabulous. Amazing. Wonderful. All of these words are overused , but they aptly describe our family’s stay at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel in Orlando. I will even add “Awesome” to the mix! Our hotel stay was an experience from…
Get Revved up with Big G Cereals! [Giveaway]
I’ve fought the good fight. You know the fight where you tell your MIL to not send over sweets and candy bars and — oh my goodness — chocolates. I’m not against candy. Everything is good…in moderation. It’s the moderation…
Musings on Babies: Tracking Your Baby
The scraps of paper. Notebooks purchased with the best of intentions. Writing on my hands and arm. Telling my sleepy spouse the time and praying that he remembered when I started nursing as I knew I was too sleep-deprived to…
I Play Chef for My Kids
It should come as no surprise to people who know me that I put things off. My procrastinaton genes run deep. Very deep. In the fall I said I would do roundup posts for all the articles I have written…
Date Nights…Western Howard County
Date Nights? Do you remember them? I have vague memories of when going on date nights was very easy. Lately with kids in a multitude of activities and general family exhaustion from our hectic schedule, date nights are few and…
Oyster Locals: The Search for Gourmet Food Trucks in D.C.
I’m at it again! I’m over at Oyster Locals Blog dishing on gourmet food trucks in D.C. and the role twitter plays. ___ You have to be living under a rock to NOT know what Twitter is. This townhall meeting/news…
Yogurt Is My Go-to Lunch Choice for Me and the Kids [Giveaway] [Closed]
In the early days of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers, yogurt was my go-to food option. Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. Snack. Yogurt was a very useful and nutritious option. Of course there was that one incident where my “I won’t eat anything…
Join Me in the #NewYearNewMe Challenge
As of July 2010 Mark Zuckerberg reported that a whopping 500 million people all around the world actively use Facebook to stay connected with friends. Add in twitter users — recently estimated as over 25 million users worldwide — and…
