After the kids grow up?
I’ve always had all this energy that I directed toward my boys while they were growning up. You know the drill – driving them all over God’s green earth, helping them with incessant homework and their ongoing activities, and feeding them constantly. It’s stunning how much two [...]

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Although TODAY is actually her birthday, we all celebrated it yesterday. It was just me, my boys and my new daughter-in-law, but it was still all good with presents, birthday cupcakes, and a really good dinner (if I say so myself).

Frosting these cupcakes was my first attempt at using a piping bag; a homemade [...]

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On the heels of posting about feeling like a Fatty-Fat-Fat most of my life, I thought it only appropriate that I post a nice fattening recipe. I don’t want anybody feeling like they’re going to find anything consistent here, anything rational, anything that makes sense here on this site.
Now, although I bake [...]

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Sleep. A list. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Sleep works wonders. After stressing for the last couple of weeks over work and my upcoming trip, I was faced once again with trouble falling asleep at the end of an exhausting day. My brain just keeps spinning with the myriad of [...]

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I’m back from a two week vacation to the Land of the Lost. It’s not a fantastic vacation destination and not one I actually CHOSE to go on, but a destination nonetheless.
I think the stars have been aligned funky or something lately because I can’t really put my finger on what my [...]

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Since I live in a condominium, we aren’t allowed to have a barbeque grill on our patios. VA law says so. It kinda sucks if you’re really into grilling. BUT, we DO have a couple of grills in the pool area for anyone and everyone to use.
I have to be [...]

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Sounds weird, right? I’ve always strived for my cakes to moist and tasty, even light at times, but never CHEWY. However, leave it to Paula Deen to demonstrate Chewy Cake on her show this past weekend, and wham, I’m hooked. I wrote it down and bought the ingredients THAT DAY. But [...]

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Being raised in the South, people assume that I ate certain foods all the time. Sometimes they’re right and sometimes, not so much. Like when people assume that I grew up eating tons of grits, they would be right. If they assume that I ate a lot of fried food, biscuits and [...]

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This was a serious hit at my house this past weekend. It’s just something I stumbled over on the Internet somewhere. I saw hashbrown, eggs, cheese, bacon and thought “How can you go wrong with that combo?” So I made it. Only I used ham because it’s what I had in [...]

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And I’m not talking about ME this time. How about that? Crabbypants is working her way through her crap. No, I’m talking about FOOD. Yay food! I love food!
Last night, I got a message from my sister where she was rambling about how she got Mother’s Day confused. She [...]

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