It always gives me a great sense of accomplishment to actually completely finish a project – especially a project meant for somebody else. I finished cross-stitching a picture onto a sweatshirt yesterday. Three guesses who the sweatshirt was for, and the first two don’t count. Tad had seen me working on this, so it wasn’t […]

For those of you not in the know, “brinner” is the made up word for “breakfast for dinner.” This was our brinner last night: I call it “shark pancake over a ham-and-egg reef.” I was kind of proud of my freehand pancake art… until I showed it to Tad.  “What’s that?” he asked. Did you […]

Amazingly, once this weekend is over, things will really begin to slow down here. This week has been insane – it’s been the last week of school for both kids, so that involved getting little Christmas treats to their teachers, paraeducators, therapists and bus drivers… and it included making up these little treat tags for […]

Otherwise called, “HELP MOMMY NOW BEFORE SHE LOSES HER MIND.” I have a lot going on this week… and so I drafted the Webmaster to finish frosting the gingerbread men for me while I continued to plug away at the Christmas cards and other crafty projects.  And I recruited help for him. This actually worked […]