Chocolate Eclair Dessert
This quite possibly could be: The easiest dessert in the world to make. The best dessert in the world to eat. A crowd pleaser EVERY time. A substitute for birthday cake (if you're my youngest son, per his request). To prove #1 above, I offer the recipe: ...
Fair of face, my Monday child
She was born on a Monday. Hers was not a delivery of water breaking and husband waking, contractions aching and “it’s time!” mistaking; it was planned for convenience (my doctor’s) and impatience (my own). My body signaled...
COUNT! OFF!! NOW!!! {Better than Mouseketeer roll call!!}
Thanks to Sarah In Real Life for getting the linky party started…PLEASE register a link to your blog if you’re headed to Asheville at the end of next month for the Type-A Mom Conference. Not signed up yet? Register...
Dance of the kindergartner
A container of bubbles might just be the answer to World Peace… July, 2009, Clemson's Bowman field. Entertainment provided by wide open spaces and the whimsy of cousins at play. There are enough smiles in one bottle to illumine Times Square…...
Mesmerizing…
Ukraine’s Got Talent is a far cry from the offerings we typically see on America’s comparable shows. Once I started watching this, I was glued to see what came next. Language wasn’t necessary; the mystery and beauty of her unusual art...
Injustices of youth
There are two great injustices of my middle school years, inflicted from adult to child, that to this day infuriate me: Mr. Tipton's and Mrs. Lumpkin's failure to do the reasonable and right thing in two very different circumstances. The Great Letter...
Handcuffed, not blocked
Sometimes I'm taunted by the blank page when thought and word escape me. I'm reduced to the Scrabble player who, after studying the tiles for minutes measured in centuries, euphorically celebrates an eight-point, three-letter word. I...
Anthropologie has the best surcies EVER!
Recently and with great affection, I trolled the aisles of Anthropolgie in Charlotte, NC. That place gives me the warm fuzzies and a bad case of wretched excessive consumerism like no other. I came home with an $18 butter dish to replace the one I...
Wanna win a $200 Visa gift card?
Ten years ago I was looking toward this season of my life with dread: our children's teenager years. I was told, then, that as toddlers they would step on my toes, but as they grew up, they'd trample my heart. So far, we've escaped...