I had never heard of Swedish Spritz until I met my husband. His mother is a renowned cook and baker and the Swedish Spritz cookies she made each Christmas were one of his favorite childhood memories– Since my husband’s love language is FOOD (Oh hush, it’s totally a love language, I don’t care what Gary […]

A few weeks ago, I showed you how we turn our house into a Winter Wonderland each year after Christmas, and many of you really seemed to like that idea- Some of you even went on to do it yourselves and share the pictures online. And then Mother Nature saw what we were all up […]

I love Netflix– but one thing I don’t love about it is that it can be impossible to sort through all the ‘meh’ and the ‘eww’ to find truly find the top Netflix movies, documentaries and TV shows. Netflix’s interface is clunky, and unless you know what you’re looking for — you’re pretty much out […]

One thing you quickly learn as a parent is that the extraordinary, all-encompassing love you feel for your children can potentially turn you into an obsessive and extremely annoying human being. Fortunately, my procreating friends, I’ve got some good news. We’re not the only ones. As a friend with ‘fur babies’ reminded me yesterday, dog […]

After nearly 15 years of marriage and parenthood, I’m now the keeper of at least a dozen large bins of Christmas decorations. Some things were inherited from parents and grandparents, others were picked up at after-Christmas sales and stored away until the next year. It has taken time, patience and effort, but I’ve finally amassed […]

When I was growing up, the one thing my mom always made sure we had was a housekeeper. Even when we were so poor we used a kerosene heater to heat our den and could only afford ten-cent packets of Kool-Aid to drink, we always, always, always had a maid. For those of you who […]

Christmas is right around the corner, and if you’re anything like me, you’ve waited until the last possible second to plan the holiday menu. Luckily, I (along with Del Monte, makers of premium canned vegetables and so much more) am here to help! If you’re wondering what to include on your holiday table, Del Monte […]

I still remember signing up for an email account for the very first time – on Yahoo Mail. That was about 20 years ago (when I was one year old, of course) and things on the Internet have changed a LOT over the last two decades – but one thing has remained the same: my […]

My husband, Dennis, really is the greatest husband and dad a woman could ask for. He has a true servant’s heart for his family and a prime example of this is his extreme reluctance to buy ANYTHING for himself. He’d rather spend all of his paycheck on all of us, always.  This, obviously, is completely […]

Like pretty much every other kid in America, my kids have been begging for their own tablets FOR. YEARS. I’ve had two major reservations about their request- One, I worried about them accessing things on the Internet that they didn’t need to be seeing/hearing. Two, good tablets are EXPENSIVE and my kids aren’t always easy […]