A Working Mom's Guide to Food, Family & Fun
I am working on a very special cake for my grandmother’s birthday on Thursday and was digging through her cookbooks and even cookbooks of my great grandmother!! I will tell you more about these treasures on Thursday with her birthday cake post featuring a VERY special cake!! In a book that I assume belonged to [...]
Anyone who knows my Hunter Bear can tell you that his favorite color is green, so it came as NO SHOCK when I asked him what color he wanted me to make his birthday cupcakes for his preschool class was that he said emphatically “GREEN!!!!!”. Keeping in perfect tune with his favorite color, Hunter’s [...]
Baby mine, don’t you cry. Baby mine, dry your eyes. Rest your head close to my heart, never to part baby of mine. Little one when you play. Don’t you mind what they say. Let your eyes sparkle and shine, never a tear baby of mine. If they knew sweet little you. They’d end up [...]
Today was the last big Sunday breakfast of 2012 and I wanted to make something special for my boys. That extra large carton of ricotta that I bought for the Christmas Eve Lasagna that also made a nice addition to the NYE appetizer is like the gift that keeps on giving, so I decided to [...]
I have laughed my patooty off lately at all the hilarious Ragu Commericals for their new “Give Em Ragu” campaigns. There is nothing grosser as a kid than when your mom takes that thumb licks it with her tongue and then goes straight for your face. The smell, the swipe……disgusto! And guess what?! Like some [...]
“As soon as you get all your renovations complete, you will move”……Oh, how that seemed like a funny joke over the last three years of our house renovations followed by “yeah, right, you will have to drag my dead body from this house”, but I guess the joke really was on us. Or rather we [...]
Tanti auguri a-te Tanti auguri a-te Tanti auguri, Drew Tanti auguri a-te Every year growing up for our birthday my dad would always ask what we wanted for our birthday dinner. I always LOVED our birthday dinners, because we got to pick whatever we wanted regardless of what everyone else in the house liked. Without [...]
Remember when we were kids and we fought over who got to sit on the “hump” in the front seat? Seat belts were for “sissies” as my dad would say and “car seats” were truly the seats that were in cars. Air conditioning was a luxurious option that we “didn’t need” bc we could barrel down the interstate at [...]
“Back this hitch up into the water Untie all the cables and rope Step onto the astro turf Get yourself a coozie Let’s go Who said anything about skiin’? Floatin’ is all I wanna do You can climb the ladder Just don’t rock the boat while I barbeque On the pontoon Jumpin’ out the [...]
When I first started this blog I had no idea if anyone would even read it. Of course my hope was that someone (family not included because they have to read it out of sheer loyalty) would find it entertaining, informative, grating, but in the end I really just wanted to use it as my [...]
Welcome to my blog! I'm Amanda and I am a busy mommy! When the work day is over I drop my heels at the door, slip on my apron and kick domesticity into high gear! I love my family, I love food and I love to have fun. Join me and we can celebrate the joys of life that bring us together.
