Food + Holidays

Have you joined the Instant Pot community yet? I did this past winter when we were in the middle of a huge kitchen remodel. What is an Instant Pot -- or IP for short? It's a fancy new pressure cooker...

 There we were, speaking in hushed but hostile tones to each other through clenched teeth, our heads ducked on either side of the Jeep’s frame as we fumbled with our respective child car seat straps. Our little girls shifted...

It's often those big life shake ups that mold us into becoming a new person and give us a better definition of how we want life to unfold.  They let us become hyper focused for a period of time on the things...

Truthfully, I had every intention to write about streamers and recipes and throwing the perfect Valentine's party. And maybe another day I will. But for today, life feels all too fleeting. And my heart is stirring with this line...

My 5-year old daughter’s widening vocabulary astounds me. She’s inventive and witty with her words. She quickly picks up on catch phrases and idioms to test them out in conversation, often with a high rate of success. And it’s...

Halloween.  One of the first words you think of when you think of Halloween is pumpkins; they just kind of go hand-in-hand right? This year, each trip I made to the store starting in late September I thought "I need...

It's 8pm. My kids are asleep.  The kitchen is (mostly) clean. I've been looking forward to this since the mail came. It's time for me to sit down at the computer and work on my new hobby: couponing!   I...

Two years ago, we proclaimed independence from the man (read: decided to stay home for Thanksgiving instead of traveling to see family), and I did the only thing I could think of to do at the time. I embarked...

There are very few of us who grow up with the dream to become a single parent one day. Rather, single parenting is often the byproduct of life taking us down a road that we hadn’t planned for. Each...

One of my favorite memories growing up was making and decorating Christmas cookies with my grandma. She would mix all the ingredients together, roll them into a perfectly formed ball of cookie dough and roll them out for us...