This weekend is going to be a big one at our house. Coco is turning 7 tomorrow and she designed the concept for her birthday party entirely on her own. Attractions will include candy kabobs, root beer floats, a donut-shaped cake per her own design/illustration, a piñata, ring toss, pin-the-horn-o
Probably my favorite ever comfort food to eat on a night when I don't really feel like cooking or maybe I'm just not that hungry is Trader Joe's Bruschetta Sauce on crostini with prosciutto. I've sung its praises before , but it bears repeating that this stuff is to die for! E
This morning, our "commute" - if you can call driving at 20 mph through gorgeous old neighborhoods a commute - was held up by something out of the ordinary: A flock of turkeys! It is the craziest thing, and it never gets old, but in our neighborhood here on the South Hill in Spokane ar
Being a repat is interesting because one day you can be feeling great, and the next day completely awful. In the beginning, the days that you feel great are pretty few and far between, but as time goes on, they become more frequent (I promise!) but then the bad ones can really take you by surp
This year, I shall have a proper birthday. Meaning, I am not going to let my birthday be completely and totally eclipsed by Coco's birthday. Coco was born two days after the day I turned 32 and I have not really had a birthday ever since! I mean, I have. Of course it didn't go by with n
