You Pinspire Me

I love lasagna – I love the layers of meat sauce, the copious amounts of cheese in various forms, and the noodles. What I don’t love is how long it takes me to prepare it. I know, it’s not nearly as finicky as things like cannelloni, but you can’t deny that it takes time.  Yesterday, since I was leaving in the late ... Read More »

 I was once what you’d call an Avid Reader. In elementary school, my mom would limit me to reading one book per day. I was captain of the Battle of the Books team for our school for two years (we won first place, both years, of course!) – would you believe that’s the only team that I was on during ... Read More »

Alright, I admit it: I’ve never been fanatical about keeping my legs silky smooth. I love the feel of freshly shaven legs, but my skin is sensitive – I need the really good razors and the expensive shaving cream: keeping my legs in this fashion is a costly venture.  Even before kids came along, I much preferred to spend my hard-earned ... Read More »

We’ve all pinned them – those gorgeously decorated sugar cookies, the clever cookies that look like mugs of hot cocoa, snowmen that are comprised of no fewer than 10 different pieces of candy, pretzels, etc, etc. no bigger than an inch… And if you’re anything like me, you haven’t done a thing with any of those pins.  This crazy video is ... Read More »

In the history of this blog, I don’t think that you’ve ever seen me post for 23 days straight. And here I am, posting on the blog for the 23rd time this month. Yes, I love writing on the blog, and yes, I love sharing things with you – but, to be perfectly honest & lay all my cards on ... Read More »

Some years, the snow doesn’t start flying until sometime into January, but on years such as this we find ourselves in a Winter Wonderland well before ‘winter’ has officially gotten under way. There are a few of us who are absolutely thrilled with the arrival of snow, but by and large, early snow seems to be met with a general feeling ... Read More »

I’ve never been one for a lot of makeup. It could be due to the fact that I’ve never really known how to apply makeup properly, and it could just be that I think that excess amounts of makeup look ridiculous in every day life… Whatever the case, I’ve never been one for makeup.  You’ll see in the “Au Naturel” ... Read More »

Alright. If you’ve been hanging out with us on the blog this month, you’ll know that I won a Harley Pasternak Power Blender from Salton at Blissdom Canada last month. I’ve been having an absolute blast with it, and the honeymoon period is definitely not over yet. Mornings are filled with raw veggie smoothies (so far, a Lime Spinach smoothie is ... Read More »

I don’t know about you, but whenever I search for ‘easy preschool Christmas crafts’, I get hits that involve both GLUE and GLITTER – both of which are NOT allowed out of the drawers when there are FOUR 2 year olds in the house on babysitting days! Here’s one that fits the ‘easy to clean up’ bill for mom.  I ... Read More »

When the skies turn a ‘hazy shade of winter’ and the wind starts to bite exposed flesh at this time of year, it’s easy to hunker down inside, turn on the fire place & Christmas music, and prepare for hibernation. Pick up that book you’ve been eyeing all summer, press play on that TV series that endless nights of soccer ... Read More »