Little Miss Nerd Girl is a Mommy. Impromptu Star Wars musicals are a part of her daily life.
It’s no fun having Gestational Diabetes during the holidays. Heck, it’s not much fun being a hundred months pregnant during the holidays. I can’t reach the back of our kitchen counters cause of the belly and I can’t eat all the yummy treats I want to make… so my will to bake is almost completely [...]
When David goes into the office to work (he mostly works from home in our downstairs office) the kids and I come downstairs and hang out. Usually we stay in the upstairs living area (that we use as our main living area) so that our daily commotion doesn’t interfere with his work and teleconference meetings. [...]
I made these rolls twice last month. While eating one of the rolls from the first batch for breakfast my husband said, “This is the best thing I have ever eaten.” Then he took another roll back into the office with him as he worked. So I decided to make them for Christmas morning too. [...]
My family loves Mexican food. We have picky eaters in the house (cough…Irelyn…cough) so sometimes it’s hard to get the kids to try new things. When we first started to make these enchiladas we called them “fancy burritos” and the picky eaters didn’t complain. We use pre-made mixes for the fajita seasoning and enchilada sauce [...]
We tried our hand at brownie cookies this afternoon. Peppermint Kiss Brownie Cookies Makes about 3 dozen 1 package brownie mix 1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour ¼ cup brown sugar ¼ teaspoon salt 2 large eggs, beat 2 tablespoons milk ½ cup butter, melted 2 teaspoons vanilla extract ¼ teaspoon peppermint extract 36 Hershey’s Candy [...]
My family always makes Almond Spritz Cookies for Christmas. While not exactly a “Christmas cookie” that is what I think of them as, because that is usually when we made them when I was a kid. My husband finds the cookies addictive. He says, “There is not much to them, but they are hard to [...]
