Beat Cancer!

As you all know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. All month long, people show support for family, friends and survivors by sporting all things PINK!
It seems just about everyone knows someone personally who has been affected by breast cancer. I know I do. From family to friends to co-workers I have seen people fight [...]

Welcome Back

I may or may not have dropped off the face of the earth there for a minute. Yeesh. Sorry!! I’m back now. I have booze. That’s a peace offering if there ever was one, don’t ya think? Yep. Me too. CHEERS!
Now, where I have been? Well, since my last post two friggin’ weeks [...]

Lunch Break

Okay, honestly, was lunch not the most spectacular part of the day back when we were in school? English class = boring. Math? Yeah, ew. And gym?! Please God, let a giant lightning bolt strike the locker room so I don’t have to play dodge ball today. Please? All these just paled in comparison to [...]

Happy Birthday, Hubby!

Can I just brag about my husband for a minute? He is just amazing! It’s like he’s my gifted toddler or something the way I go and on about how awesome he is. I must be the luckiest girl in the world because I hit the husband JACKPOT!
He’s so smart and funny. So caring and [...]

Mall Rats

Chocolate chip cookies remind me of trolling the mall as a young teenager. When all us girls in the neighborhood were 11 or 12, we suddenly became of age and gained all sorts of a couple new privileges. The best of all of them being we could go to the mall ourselves. Kinda. Okay, so [...]

Chew on this

Is there anything better than an extra chewy and delicious cookie? Cookies are one of my favorite desserts because they can be dressed up or down, I almost always have the ingredients on hand to make up some kind of cookie, they are portable and they are the perfect hand held treat.
And, really, who doesn’t [...]

Let’s go to the Hop!

Have you ever seen the movie American Graffiti? No? Okay, I’ll just a wait a second while you go add it to your Netflix queue. Now please. Thanks.
::whistles and twiddles thumbs:: Got in there? GREAT!
This is one of my favorite movies! Personally recommended to me a few years ago by my dad, who never steers [...]

Retro Fab!

One of my favorite things to do when I go back home to my mom and dad’s is to raid all the old newspaper clippings and handwritten recipe cards my mom has collected over the years. It’s fun to see how recipes have changed (and remained the same, for that matter) as the years have [...]

Love is…

A cupcake stuffed with cream and and covered in chocolate.
Am I right or what? Yeah….that’s pretty much love. And when you get to share with them with the most wonderful man in the world, that’s pretty much perfection.
I made these Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes from Martha Stewart as our Valentine’s Day dessert. I spotted them [...]

I Can’t Take the Pressure!!

I have the hardest time deciding what to bake. I pour over recipes on the internet and in cookbooks trying to decide. I literally get anxiety over it. I’m just afraid I’ll pick the wrong thing! It’s a tough job, I tell ya!
This happened to me yesterday morning. I was particularly anxiety-ridden because I slept [...]