Major Mom I don’t use mine enough. My sister exclusively makes her bread in her machine. I always say I’m going to do that, but then real life gets in the way. Sent from my iPhone…pardon the typos!
I’m a huge fan of beans. All kinds of beans. Unfortunately, I married a man who doesn’t like beans. So I didn’t have them very often until Jacob was old enough and he loves them as much as I do.
This recipe I’m about to share came from an apron that my Mom bought as a souvenir on a family trip to New Orleans in 1987 or so. My Dad was there while ship spent some time near New Orleans for some work in a shipyard.
Here is the apron, which I now own.
This past week Jacob’s school had a competition for a program they’ve been doing all year: Powerhouse Math. Strangely enough, I couldn’t find much about the program when I Googled it. Just a blog post by someone else in my neighborhood whose son earned a medal last year. But based on what I had learned … Read more
I guess it’s been a while since I wrote one of these “Discoveries” posts, isn’t it? It doesn’t mean we didn’t do anything — in fact, I’m reminded that I should relabel my USS Alabama, Mardi Gras and Santa Train posts “Alabama Discoveries”…we do seem to spend a lot of time there, don’t we?
Maybe while I’m at it I’ll rename our Atlanta road trips “Georgia Discoveries” 🙂
Thanks to a Groupon I purchased several months ago, we were able to take advantage of a dolphin cruise around Destin Harbor and the Gulf of Mexico this past weekend. The Groupon benefits expired on April 30th, so in typical Major Mom fashion, we took the trip on April 29th.
We took a 30 minute narrated tour of Destin Harbor and then traveled through the East Pass into the Gulf and got up close and personal with three separate pods of dolphins. As you might have read or heard, dolphins are indeed very social and friendly. The younger ones enjoyed showing off for us — trying to get as much air as possible when jumping!
You know it happens to you, right? Those food cravings. Come on…admit it! Sometimes you just feel like having something that isn’t sitting in your fridge or pantry. In my case, it was homemade fresh salsa. I like the salsa that you get in Mexican restaurants. The kind that comes to you in a carafe … Read more
**This doesn’t mean I want another baby. It’s just nice to look back on my boys’ super-dooper cute baby pictures! Today a fellow Air Force spouse friend posted pictures of her daughter on Facebook — portraits taken at the beach just after her first birthday. There were some family portraits also. In one of the … Read more
To be honest, I’m not sure I’ve ever written about our fishtank before. I know I’ve written several times about our fountain/pond set up in the front yard of our current house. We have a 5 gallon tank in our kitchen also. Jacob got his first fish around his 5th birthday. Small tanks with bettas and … Read more
First of all, an update on my iPhone cracked glass drama. I’m so happy that USAA called me this morning to tell me that my computer/media insurance rider WILL cover the dropped phone, I’m to get an assessment from Apple about whether we can just replace the glass…which they will cover. If Apple says “No, … Read more
That’s how long have had my latest iPhone. I know, I dropped my original phone and had to deal with missing pixels for several months, then I dropped my 2nd iPhone into the toilet…and now this. On Saturday morning Jacob and I were preparing to run at our local Relay for Life event (which ended … Read more
I realized that I posted an incomplete paint job picture in that last post. So here are some pictures of the finished walls. Please note that every. single. wall. in this house was WHITE beforehand. BEFORE: AFTER: