I pretty much only make three salad dressings. My favorite ranch dressing, a strawberry vinaigrette, and this poppyseed dressing. Bart’s sister made it shortly after we got married and I ate more salad that night than I had in the last three years combined. And then I got the poppyseed dressing recipe and found out it was super easy to…
Read More
Sisters Share It All: Christmas Traditions
Today, I’m thinking about one of my favorite Christmas traditions from my childhood. Like most children, we all got pretty antsy on Christmas Eve – that day seemed to draaaaaaag when we were little. My parents hit upon a great idea: every year, we’d go to see a movie on Christmas Eve. We didn’t see a ton of movies in…
Read More
$50 Gift Card Giveaway
[This contest is closed; congrats to Andrea!] You know what I hardly ever do on my blog? (Write a sentence without a dash, semicolon, ellipses or all three. . . (I also do not under-use parentheses)). Do giveaways. Obviously, that lead-in lets you know that THIS will be giveaway post (the title might have been a bit of a hint…
Read More
Preschool for Toddlers: Pirates
This preschool month was my favorite so far. There were so many fun things to do with toddlers around a pirate theme, and I felt like it was just a smashing success. We started, as usual, with books: Pirate Nap, Charlotte Jane Battles Bedtime, Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC And then I brought out a pan of beans…
Read More
All I Want for Christmas
. . . .is for people to have their email addresses linked in their profile so I can respond to comments. I hope Santa is reading this. Landen brought it to my attention that my old set of instructions were now out-of-date, thanks to Blogger’s revamp of their dashboard. If you don’t have your email linked, when I get your…
Read More