When I was a kid, I would spend all of the New Year holiday listening to Casey Kasem do his Top 40 countdown (based on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart), trying to guess which song would take top prize. Would it be my song or would I be disappointed? I probably started listening in 1984. That [...]
Well, this holiday will sure be memorable! I think we have over a foot of snow. It just keeps coming in waves. I feel like I have said, “It’s snowing again” about a zillion times since Thursday. And because I won an Amazon gift card earlier in the year from The Pioneer Woman I was [...]
The December 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book as the challenge recipes. I was [...]
My mom and I took the kids to Macy’s in downtown Minneapolis last night to see their holiday display. We rode the light rail from the suburbs to get down there and of course that was Andrew’s favorite part of the whole day. It was easy to keep an eye on Andrew- his coat matches [...]
I wish I could have gotten some better pictures of the bird treats we made today but the temperature is 1 degree. I could barely brave the 60 seconds it took to hang and throw the stuff up in the tree let alone stop and compose better pictures. However in an attempt to lure more [...]
