This past weekend I had some time to sew, so I made up a few things for myself. One of these was a shirt that was supposed to be the muslin for another shirt I wanted to make. It didn’t […]
The kids had Thursday and Friday off for MEA (the teacher’s convention that most teachers don’t seem to attend). Brian took the kids to Feed My Starving Children to pack food on Thursday morning, and then he had to go […]
I love deviled eggs. Apparently, I am not alone. When I bring them out at parties, the menfolk and small children go, “Oooooh, eggs!”. A friend that I lived with briefly also fondly remembers me making deviled eggs on random weekdays. Not […]
The Fall color is coming up to it’s apex, and it is a lovely time of the year!
If you saw the image from the football game, then you saw the boys all bundled up and cold. Kai said his ears were frozen by the end of the game. He tried to put a stocking cap under his helmet, […]
Now that we aren’t at baseball or softball 4 nights out of the week, and the current sports are more manageable for dinners, I am cooking again. It was time to try out some recipes I found on Pinterest, so […]
We are on the tail end of football here, with Kai’s last regular season game on Saturday. It will then go into playoffs! Last weekend was positively frigid. It was in the 40’s with a bit of a wind that […]
Today I am guest posting over at Oliver & S for another tweenified version of their patterns: the Hide and Seek Tunic and Playtime Leggings. (Yep, they gave me these patterns again. As you know, I tend to draft my […]
Every Sunday night during the school year we go to church at 5pm, which is followed by dinner at 6pm and then the kid’s Catechism class at 6:30. We have had to help with the dinners as part of the […]
We are heading into the lovely grey days of Autumn, where it tends to rain a bit and then snow a bit. Not looking forward to either, especially after the beautiful weekend we had. I took these shots right before it […]
One day when I got home from work I realized I didn’t really have anything out for dinner, but I had a lot of pantry supplies. I took out a box of large shells, various ends of different cheeses, whatever […]
Today I am guest posting over on the Oliver & S blog, showing how to tween-ify some of their patterns that go up to a size 12. The patterns I chose were actually two boy patterns that I made for […]
