cultivating me

And the winner is………. commenter #41!!!! At this point,  I have to tell you how happy I am that my iPhone numbers comments even though word press doesn’t.  It makes it so much easier to match a number to a name: CONGRATULATIONS MAUREEN!! I hope this crock pot will help add some variety in your [...]

I’ve been having so much fun reading through the comments left on my crock pot giveaway!  It seems there are a couple of dominant answers to my question of what is your biggest challenge when it comes to getting dinner on the table during the week. Number one on the list seems to be having [...]

i am such a dork in so many ways.  it infuriates me and amuses me at the same time.  tonight, i was more annoyed than entertained at myself. i sort of had an off day today. i’m not sure where it came from, it just sort of snuck up on me. to begin with, i [...]

TIMES UP!!! THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO STOPPED BY.  IT FEELS GOOD TO KNOW YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS CHALLENGES WITH WEEKNIGHT DINNERS! SO MANY OF YOUR COMMENTS MADE ME GIGGLE OR EVEN LAUGH :O)  I WISH I HAD A CROCK POT FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.  I’LL [...]

if i had my way, i would spend each and every day barefoot. this amuses me because i actually like shoes, shopping for shoes, looking at shoes in magazines, thinking about shoes but i just don’t like wearing them all of the time.

This recipe is dedicated to my friend Bubba (BUBBA!!!).  He swears by the use of grape jelly in spaghetti sauce, meat loaf and who knows what else…. he’s also a huge smart @$$ and there is still a part of me that is positive he’s just pulling my leg and is going to roll on [...]

or as so happens to be the case in my house, learning to get yourself where you need to be.  but you know the whole leaving the nest metaphor seemed appropriate here.  i’ve talked in the past about learning to let go of my kids, about learning to let them learn to do things – [...]

so you may or may not know that i’ve got a new range.  and may i just take a moment to gush about how much i love it?  it’s fabulous! i’ve never ever had a new stove before and i’ve never had a gas cooktop before.  i’ve cooked on them at other people’s homes and [...]

is hard.  i not quite sure i how i ever healed my broken hearts and i surely don’t know how to heal another’s.  especially when it is my daughters. today i saw her broken heart as she looked for her good friend to say one last goodbye.  C moved here with her parents over the [...]

so i haven’t written in a while.  i could tell you all that i’ve been up to but you can guess – christmas, new year, family, friends and so on.  it’s been busy and not and fabulous all the time.  and now here we are at the beginning of 2009 and somewhere, somehow, something changed [...]