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...

Ramona made me a "Book Writing Encouragement Jar." Keeps everything in perspective.  ~~~~~ I love that Ramona an...

Anne-with-an-e: What are you planning for dinner? Me: Vegetarian fried rice. Anne-with-an-e : Oh, I'm sorry ... you're planning ...

I sat down today with a piece of chocolate cake and this book:  Year of No Sugar: A Memoir  by Eve O. Schaub I'll keep you...

That is all I have to say for now. 

photo thanks to freeimages Atticus has gone back to school which means I am forced to head back to the kitchen. Can you say, "Sa...

Monday :  Atticus and the girls were supposed to take off for a Daddy/Daughter day. The weather, however, was frighteningly unstable. I wa...

The latest stack of stuff on my bedside table (or piled in the living room, or on Kindle, or wherever....) ~~~~~ The Rosie Project b...

I voted for chocolate cake over the feather duster. It's not just any chocolate cake. It's Molly Wizenberg's Winning Hearts an...

So, Atticus and I gave up meat for Lent. Last night I made waffles and bacon for the girls, and since bacon can have a siren effect on me, I...

First it was Atticus. Now, Anne-with-an-e has started classes, too. The rest of us are sitting back,  taunting them cheering them on, and ...

~ A picture book about Julia Child . ~ This chocolate syrup recipe from Alton Brown .  ~ Finishing The Prairie Thief with Ramona (revi...

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...

In a fun coincidence, it turned out that all three of us Catholic homeschooling moms were doing The Trumpet of the Swan as a read-aloud....

I hope so. I've been thinking a lot about homeschooling methods, ideals and realities. But we're so busy here celebrating the Octa...

A devil's food treat on this angelic feast day. Ours turned out wonderfully. The recipe is here .  (We had a slightly smaller brownie mi...

... 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...