I often forget how much I love meatballs.  I mean, they are like bite-sized meat loaves – and meat loaf is pretty much amazing.  When I make meatballs the realization that meat balls are absolutely my favorite comes flooding back to me, and I vow to make meatballs for the next 4 months because I […]

It was a whirlwind of a weekend to say the least.  We started strong on Friday and didn’t stop stop stop for air until Sunday evening.   Oh.  And the twins did not nap.  I say that as a plural because PARKER is really the non-napper MVP this weekend and Jolie got in a cat […]

One of my first ever ever ever recipes to be published was one similar to BBQ Chicken Baked Potatoes.. except the pregnant belly I was toting didn’t allow for energy to make a trip to the store to pick up the remaining ingredients I lacked. I was 32 weeks pregnant with Parker and Jolie, in […]

My new favorite ‘pose’ to ‘arrange’ Parker and Jolie in is perfectly displayed here.   BUT-  the fete to get them there is getting harder everyday.  Parker: BYE!  (overtly waving her arm in the air and trotting through the yard towards the furthest corner away from me. Me: PARKER – come here.  pleeeaaase. Parker: nope!! […]

I get asked pretty often to share my beauty routine, and pretty often I get embarrassed to share because I really don’t feel like there is much to it.  I don’t use special anything on my face.  Grocery store quality is where its at for me.. and really all I have time for.  I DO […]

In trying to sound festive in the most non-cliché way..we went to the Pumpkin Patch last week.  ..and, you guessed it, picked out a pumpkin.  Walking into the Patch, a flood of memories hit my ever loving heart of a mother and swallowed it whole.  Do you remember the last time we were here? We […]