Stop Thinking About Me

I have a secret that I have not told my little family.
I hate carving pumpkins.
It’s like a bad marriage. I’m in it for the kids.
I don’t like touching pumpkin guts. I don’t like the feeling of dried guts on my arms. I don’t like the struggle with the knife, trying to cut out a face [...]

I recently went on a week long sugar ban. One week sounds pretty weak, but that one week has made all the difference.
During that one week I realized that I was eating less just because I was cutting out sugar. When the week was up I took my belt in one notch. One notch! All [...]

The original recipe was for a 9″ x 13″ pan with a graham cracker crust on the bottom, but I prefer it in the pie form. I know it makes a lot, but who doesn’t like pie? I also used the peaches that we canned last month. Delicous!
3 prepared graham cracker crusts.
3/4 C. Sugar
4 pkg. [...]

I recently wrote about how we are waiting for Holden’s blood work to come back so we can start him on a new medication because he was still having seizures. He started on 2ML and worked his way up to 4ML with no sign of his seizures stopping.
The next step was getting lab work for Holden and [...]

I am working on changing the look of my blog, and by “I”, I actually mean someone other than me. If it was me then I would somehow find a way to blow up my computer and my computer skills might actually be able to make your computer combust as well. I’m magical like that. I just [...]

Honestly, I didn’t even know who Michael Buble was before I was given this opportunity to review his new CD, Crazy Love. He has a great smooth voice with a classic jazzy sound.
This album was 50/50 for me, meaning that half of it I liked and the other half I could have done without. “Cry [...]

I found this bottle between my couch cushions. Three week old fermented milk is one of the worst smells in mommy world. Luckily this bottle didn’t stink. The hole was clogged with crusty dried milk so there was no chance for the funk of forty thousand years to permeate the air. But because it was [...]

Last week Holden emerged from the bathroom so proud of himself telling me, “Mom, I cut my own hair!”
I don’t get upset.
I don’t freak out.
I don’t cry.
What I do is get my camera.
Then I ask Holden to show me how he cut his hair so I can capture this Kodak moment forever.
Yeah, I’m that kind [...]

This year was the first year ever that I have wanted to do some canning. I took a preserving class several years ago when I was a teenager and you can imagine how interested a 17 year old girl would be in canning. The main reason I took the class was because it was a [...]

I’m fat.
I’m sick of being fat.
Lately I have been trying to make our household diet more healthy, but even though I added more fresh fruits and veggies and upped our whole grains, I never cut out the sweets.
What’s the harm of one brownie? I’ll tell you what the harm is. That one brownie turns into [...]