March 2009

I Am Finally (Kind of) Knitting (aka Loom Knitting is Fun and Easy)

I have really been wanting to learn how to knit. Eric and the kids were nice enough to let me pick out a few things from Amazon.com for my birthday in December, and one thing I got was The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Knitting that people were just raving about. (That’s also when I got [...]

Question and Answer: The Snuggie

A few weeks ago, I posted a Wordless Wednesday of this picture of Noah in his Snuggie. I got a few questions about the Snuggie, and frankly, I didn’t know how to answer them. You see, Noah kept begging for a Snuggie and then finally used his own money to buy one. So, since it [...]

Many Little Links: The Trivial Pursuit Edition

One of my favorite things to do after the kids go to bed on a weekend is to play a game with Eric. The only problem is — it has been ages since we did that. (We also try to have one weekend night that we watch a Netflix movie.) Tonight I was really thrilled [...]

Are you and your spouse compatible?

Are you and your spouse compatible? I’m not talking about in love or other matters of the heart, I’m talking about sleep patterns. It seems like I often hear about night owls walking down the aisle with early risers. So, I wondered — which happens more — do more people marry someone with the same [...]

Win $100 Gift Card for the Cutest First Communion Photo

The Catholic Company, the market leader for online Catholic books and gifts, has just announced a First Communion Photo Contest. What a great excuse to pull those photos out of the photo book and show them off again! Bloggers, podcasters, and webmasters can also win a $50 Gift Card for referring the winning entry to [...]

Which is More: 89 or 90?

In the van today, I told the kids with great excitement, “Do you know whose birthday it is today?” “Who?” with great delight, as if they could have possibly forgotten that the birthday belonged to one of them. “Great Grandma! Do you know that today she is 90 years old?” There were a variety of [...]

Showing Support For Someone Newly Unemployed

Oh yeah, it’s the chicken noodle soup again. I used this same picture before to tell about how to make homemade chicken noodle soup, and then I used it to tell about what a wonderful idea it is to take a meal to a family with a new baby (or a sick family member). But, [...]

Great Way to Organize Recipes

I have been using binders for a while to organize my recipes, but I have been using a few different binders. Last week, I finally decided to tackle a project that I had been thinking about — I put everything into one large binder together. To start the process, with Eric, I went through all [...]

Birds Creep Me Out

Please tell me I’m not the only one, okay? Birds just creep me out a little bit. Or, you know, more than a little bit. I’m warming up to the idea of birds though, I will admit. But, still — they are not my favorite thing. You know, in the same way having a crown [...]

Talk About Some Pressure!

I was talking to a couple of people tonight about my blog. One of them is a blog reader, and the other is not familiar with my blog. During the conversation, the blog reader was telling the other person about how “good” my blog is and how much she enjoys it. Ahhh…nice. But, then the [...]

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