Coffee is my thing. My vice. My secret treat for myself. Starbucks. Caribou Coffee. Corner bakery. Even McDonald’s McCafe hits the spot. But, what about brewing coffee worthy of a coffee shop creati0n at home? I have a jar or…
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Shoppers Food Warehouse Launches Nutrition IQ and a #Giveaway!
I grocery shop for my family with health in mind. I search the aisles for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack foods. I don’t read every food label, but I do care about the health value of the food I buy.…
Feeling the Holiday Letdown
I should prepare myself. It happens every year so why am I so shocked. Every year I get blindsided the day I start taking down decorations. For a day or two before all of us stop turning on the Xmas tree…
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Review & Giveaway: Cuisinart Rice Cooker
My basement storage room is work in progress. Everything has a home…theoretically. The problem is that some items have several homes. The floor is perhaps the worst home for any item. I can lose items in a sea of boxes and…
Need a Little Help Entertaining: A Giveaway!
A few years ago I attended a very formal and fancy holiday party at a friend’s house. Uniformed waiters handed out tray after tray of hors d’oeuvres. Our host mingled with her guests the whole evening. I complimented my friend…
SVMomsGroup Book Club: Close Encounters of the Third Grade Kind
As the mom of two former 3rd graders and one future third grader, Phillip Done’s Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind was spot on. Done, a veteran teacher, wrote the book as a how-to guide for his niece. His booklet…
Washington, D.C.: Home Grown Knowledge
I wonder how many of my posts start out with… “I was trolling around on twitter and found [fill in the name of cool project]” ? So, I was trolling around on twitter and saw a tweet about… Wait a…
Back-to-School Giveaways from MomCentral
Back-to-School makes me think of different images from the different times in my life. MomCentral is offering a Gift Guide to help you with your back-to-school needs. For me back-to-school means trying to figure out which school I was in at…
Book Review: She Still Calls Me Daddy
I recently discovered through my good friend, Mariana, that publishers have programs for bloggers. I love this idea. I quickly signed up with Thomas Nelson. My first book for review was a good one: She Still Calls Me Daddy: Building a New Relationship with…
About Jill
Jill seizes family time whenever she can. Dinner as a family? Check. Marathon game sessions? Check. Movie night? Check. You name it…she wants to do it. Now finding a time when everyone is free is another story. With three kids…
