Instead of recreating a blog post about one of our favorite cookie recipes, I’ve “repurposed” my November 2008 post. Many of the commercial links from 2008 had to be changed, so I’ve updated the links to the recipe, some of the ingredients I like and the cookie-making equipment I recommend. Similar to 2008, this will … Read more
Took this picture yesterday at the Commissary. I’ll let the picture speak for itself. The subtitle below says “Creamy taste and texture of pumpkin pie flavored with natural cinnamon & ginger”. I don’t know what to say about this pie-ish product. Many times you guys have known me to whine about processed foods. That’s not … Read more
I’ve been contemplating holiday crafts for Dave’s squadron’s Christmas party. I’m helping to set it up. (Oops, did I say “Christmas?” I mean, um, “Holiday“.) I recalled doing God’s Eyes in Girl Scouts and Sunday school when I was growing up. With all these remnants of yarn hanging around from my HAP afghan rectangles, and a … Read more
Disney Universe for Wii retails for $45-50. Click this link to go straight to Amazon’s listing. At the last minute, I decided to stamp/crop our family Christmas cards this year. I’m tapping into a lot of the materials I have on hand to save a little money, and I used the Splitcoaststampers website gallery to search … Read more
Today the family more or less was lazy around the house, every once in a while working on the holiday decorations. I whipped together three recipes of sugar cookie dough for this coming week, and we finished decorating both Christmas trees. This year, for the first time, we put up two Christmas trees. We started … Read more
Happy Black Friday friends! I occasionally have done the first-thing-in-the-morning thing on Black Friday. Of course, that was back when Black Friday had a morning to it. Now it’s more of a Black Thursday Night, since that’s when you have to get going to make it to the stores for the “doorbusters”. I’m too old, … Read more
Pecan pie anyone? This one is extra special! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Today the family headed over to the Yurack Family’s house. Jim and Amy are friends from my dorm at Penn State way back when. Amy lived across the hall my freshman year! 20 years ago! The Yuracks have three kids, and let me tell … Read more
Let me start with a Dave Update: Dave’s days are doing pretty well. He’s in a bit of a conundrum because as his leg muscles tighten up overnight, he awakens every morning with VERY uncomfortable leg and glute pains. Within a few minutes of awakening, he’s much improved. But he says that the morning pains … Read more
I recently fell in love with sweet potatoes. I wrote about it in 2009. Incidentally, Dave had a similar epiphany in 1997 with onions. He went from hating them to loving them. I tolerate them, but certainly don’t love them. He doesn’t love sweet potatoes, so I guess we’re even. Anyway, since there’s no point … Read more
It’s been hard this year. The media has been inundating us with holiday-related retail commercials and the radio stations are already playing Christmas music. I guess it started the same week as Halloween, which seemed pretty crazy to me. Has it always been this early? Don’t get me wrong…my family and I LOVE Christmas, we … Read more