I don't seem to be doing such a great job of it this week.  ~~~~~ I'm doing better with the fun stuff.  Ramona recent...

Yes, I dropped off the face of the earth for a bit. I was in the final days before a manuscript deadline , so I was ignoring the outside wor...

Yesterday, Ramona decorated a graham cracker duo. She came up with this design: If you haven't seen her inspiration for it, it wa...

I did. There was a time in my life when, had you even hinted I'd one day  own a candy cane cookie cutter, I would have snapped, ...

Yesterday I: Roasted a chicken (Granted, I did  tweet this , but we won't go there right now....) Roasted the last of Atticus' ho...

You know how in my last post I talked about following the Church because I love and follow Jesus? Well, in a similar vein, I embrace certain...

... and over at Faith & Family Live today their guest blogger -- Jeff Young, The Catholic Foodie -- mentions that chefs are artists . ...

Hmmm. I see -- from this post, at this time last year -- that I often get a handle on meal plans and cooking this time of year. It's al...

Because I need inspiration. You know I do . In an effort to reignite a spark, I've added a couple of new cookbooks to my kitchen c...

1. Get a dog. 2. Be sure to get the kind of dog that favors cat food. 3. Fail to grasp any connection between step 2 and every step ther...

I have requests from three daughters for three of these scarves:   We chose the yarn awhile back but I just finished this yesterday. Aft...

Yesterday my dryer died.  (Be careful what you wish for .) Today we shall find out if this elderly friend still has any life left in her, ...

That laundry would creep away into a deep, dark hole and die.  For a week -- or, ... oh, dare I dream? -- ten days. That no one will ask ...

When Atticus got home from work tonight, he walked into the living room and said: "Is there something different in here? Why does it ...

... here are the results of the Gingerbread House Decorating Party (minus three houses, as that family left before we got a picture taken): ...

Because I spent the day  hunched over the kitchen counter making and baking homemade (for the first time ever ... please pat me on my aching...

Martha Stewart telling me how to host a cookie swap . I've never hosted a cookie swap. I don't think I'll ever host a cookie ...

Last week we visited the local pumpkin patch. It was bittersweet for me. When we first discovered this place, it made for a very sweet famil...

* Some recipes from Just Tell Me What to Cook , such as Orange Rosemary Chicken , which was a hit with the whole family. Ramona didn't...

Atticus made his famous homemade spaghetti sauce today. As we cleaned up after dinner, I mentioned that I still remembered the first time I...