Until recently it had been years since I had regular manicures. Seven years to be exact. I tried, but after the twins were born no manicure lasted more than a couple of days because of all the hand washing and the rest of the work of being a [...]

I got my iPhone right before BlogHer last year. I had been putting it off because I had a $200 cancellation fee with Sprint that I was unwilling to pay. I finally couldn’t take it any more because there is a lot of iPhone talk on the Internet. [...]

I love clothes and try to keep up with the latest trends. I may not actually wear every trend, but I am at least aware of the existence of the trend because I am hip, happening, and now.
I’ve been debating the whole boyfriend jean thing for a while. [...]

I worry about two things when it comes to my children – a car hitting them and a predator snatching them. These two things keep me awake at night, more so than teenage pregnancy or drugs, or a whole host of other pitfalls and obstacles that I hope [...]

When I wrote about my ongoing battle with migraines a few months ago, I was so touched and grateful for the support and suggestions everyone gave me. It gave me the determination to keep slogging away at finding some relief. Seriously, I made a list of all of [...]

We need to ice things pretty frequently at my house, what with 7-year-old twins who like to wrassle, a mom cursed with frequent headaches, and a cat who likes to trip people when he is hungry. Dear cat: I can’t feed you if I fall and break a [...]

One of my favorite Thanksgiving memories is cooking the turkey for my in-laws the very first time. My husband’s father, Bob, is no longer with us, but I think of him often and always around Thanksgiving because of how nerve-wracking the whole experience was.

That first Thanksgiving I had [...]

Well, it’s that time of year again. It’s the time when my old blog gets slammed with traffic looking at my posts about how to dry brine a turkey and cook it in half the usual time.
Cooking a turkey can be terrifying. It’s a heavy, slippery, hairless and [...]

As a mom of a stinky boy I’m constantly on patrol, ferreting out the stank. I shriek, What is that smell? at least 3 times a day, and then go around sniffing things until I find the source. I thought our yellow lab was bad in [...]

I did it again. Fully four weeks before Halloween I have several half-eaten bags of candy, trashcans full of wrappers, and a belly ache.
I wasn’t going to do it this year. I wasn’t going to buy candy early thinking I could wait until Halloween and then fail, thus [...]