It’s no secret that Teacher and I try to make “green” choices whenever we can, and the holidays are no exception. Here are some quick and easy my two favorite words besides “chocolate” and “coffee” to greenify your holiday season: Think layers. Your furnace probably uses some sort of fossil…
1. I’ve never jumped off anything higher than the monkey bars. Actually, I’m not sure I’ve even jumped off those; I’m not a big fan of heights. 2. I’ve never lived alone. I lived with my family until I went to college, then I had a roommate, then a second…
Attention, attention, may I have your attention please! Thank you. I am pleased heck with that – thrilled – to announce the redesign of my child care website! Drumroll please… Ta da!! My most recent favorite designer, Jeff of Snowfyre.com, created it for me. Not only is…
When we bought our house we inherited several things along with it: Pepto-Bismol pink exterior, clumps of thistles and cilantro five feet high, kitchen cupboards gummy with cooking oil, ugly 1960s trim and wrought-iron details, glossy white paint on every interior wall, I could go on and on. Let’s just…
The very best Margarita I’ve had in my entire life was at Topolobampo in Chicago, where Teacher and I sat within spitting distance of Rick Bayless himself. Teacher found the official Topolo Margarita recipe online for me cuz I loves Margaritas, but it’s rather labor-intensive with all of those limes…
Last year I posted a tutorial showing how to make reusable sandwich and snack bags using cotton fabric and PUL (polyurethane laminate). Since I realize that not everyone has PUL readily available and it’s generally not considered food-safe, I decided to look for an alternative that would be easier for…
I grew up with a sewing machine so starting and ending a seam with backstitching is second nature to me. When I got my first serger I was dumbfounded to learn that sergers don’t go backwards. If you can’t go backward how do you keep a serged seam from unravelling?…
Last year I decided it was time to update the logo I’d been using for my child care business since I opened in 1998. It outdated and poor quality a scan of a stamped image and I was ready for something new. Being a do-it-yourself kind of gal I started…
It happened at a basketball game my seventh grade year. I don’t know about your school, but at the K-8 school I attended, Friday night basketball games were the social event of the week. All the cool kids came and hung out at the far end of the bleachers, as…
This is the mulch that Grandpa got. This is the door (with an arrow in white) that shows how ginormous the pile was of mulch that Grandpa got. This is the Uncle, so tall and strong, that shoveled the pile (that ginormous pile) of mulch that Grandpa got.…
