Halloween has never been my favorite holiday, but there are a few things I truly love about this day. Candy! There’s so much candy to be had for free on this particular day. It makes my vending machine cravings seem downright tame. Watching It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! It’s a classic, and I like…
Reading Break
I’m going to write less today so that you and I can both go and read something else, preferably something on paper. This is the selfish reason for that: I have three books checked out from the library, all due between one day and three weeks from now. I want to read them all very…
Capri and Zurich: Vacation Part Final
I may or may not have forgotten how many “parts” are in our vacation saga. Regardless, this is the end of the trip. Are you ready for an adventure? If you’ve forgotten, we just left Positano behind with all of its not sleep and late-night hotel searches. We got on the ferry to Capri with…
Sunday Party-Worthy Beef and Butternut Stew/Chili + Rosemary Apple Galette
Sunday was Cook for Lots of Folks Day, which is fun as long as it doesn’t happen every week. In this case, it was lots of fun. I started with a recipe I’ve loved for a few years and moved on to something new and adventurous (for me). This is the old, familiar recipe: Cooking…
Mom’s Chicken Rice Casserole
This weekend was chock full of cooking, so I’ll tell you about it in chronological order. First came chicken rice casserole a la Mom. Mom’s Chicken Rice Casserole probably came from my dad’s mother, which rightfully makes it Grandma’s Chicken Rice Casserole. But she’s a mom, too, so we’ll leave it as Mom’s and they’ll…
Living Area Before and After (Finally!!!)
Okay, it’s been a while since we did any actual work on our living area (aside from the stairs, which are kind of a part of the project, kind of not). But it took a while for me to get motivated to clean and get tools off the floor and all of those fun details…
Spare Drawer Solution
No, not the under-drawers type of drawer. The furniture type of drawer. We found ourselves with a brand new kitchen cabinet drawer and no place to put said drawer (there’s a microwave on a nifty shelf where the drawer was designed to go), so we tried to find an alternative drawer use. This was the…
Small, but valuable. 