Recipe Roundup

It’s time again for the monthly roundup at Laura’s place. This month’s focus was on recipe organization. To be honest, I almost didn’t participate this month because I don’t cook that much so I didn’t see recipe organization as a big priority.
But after I considered it, I did have some cookbooks and recipes [...]

Exhaustion Induced Randomness

Please don’t forget to enter my contest.  It ends at noon today.  It’s for a super great cause.  Go now.
One cannot live on 4.5 hours of sleep alone.
If I take a 15 minute nap every hour from now until 5pm, is that the same as getting 7 hours of sleep last night?
I did only 1 [...]

Win a little, Give a little

Today is a complicated day for me.
On the one hand, I am super excited because today is my blogging anniversary.  Two years ago, I entered this great big bloggy world and it has definitely been a wild ride.  Over 600 posts have been written.  Over 6,000 comments have been recieved.  It’s been a wild ride [...]

Sisters Weigh In

The ladies over at The Sisterhood are at it again with another weight loss challenge.
Kiss Me, I’m Shrinking (that name cracks me up) is only 3 weeks long so there’s no time to lose. Join now! The challenge starts today and goes to March 18th.
My goal for this week is to get down [...]

You Capture – Week One (Love)

This is the first week of the You Capture carnival over at Beth’s place. This week, we were charged with taking a picture of something we love. The challenge was, we couldn’t use the flash.
I immediately knew that I wanted to take a picture of Emma’s hair in natural light. I just [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Chauffeur

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Research or something like it

Jake came home yesterday with his first research project.
That’s right, a RESEARCH project.
He’s 5.  And in Kindergarten.  And now he has a research project.
Granted, the project is only a week long.  And it’s  on dogs.  And most of it is done in school.
But still, the whole idea that he’s doing a RESEARCH project just boggles [...]

Stickers and tattoos and barrettes, OH MY!

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that Emma and I get along famously.  FAMOUSLY!
We are the poster combo for “Power Struggles”.
Being autonomous and all, Emma has this crazy notion that noone can make her do anything.  Most of the time, she’s right.  And on most days, it’s not [...]

Beth is hosting a new weekly photography challenge! I’ll use this as an excuse to break in my new camera!
Every Wednesday, she’ll post a new “assignment” for what you should try to capture that week. Just grab your camera, shoot away, and then link up to her site with your submission. She [...]

Fitness Friday

In a completely unexpected turn of events, I actually did every single day of working out that I intended to.
I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
I completed Week 1, Day 3 of the C25K just this morning (please excuse me while I wipe sweat off my my keyboard) and amazingly enough I barely hurt at [...]