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I wanted to thank everyone for your comments, texts, instant messages on Facebook and comments on Instagram yesterday after talking about the beginning of the end of Tony passing away.  I will admit I couldn’t read any of them when I was at work for fear of crying right there on the spot, so I waited until I got home.  I let the tears flow...

I love sleeping in.  Like a lot.  I am like a teenager in that on the weekends I could easily sleep in until 10 or 11 in the morning.  But last Saturday?  I was up at 7:45.  I went to the bathroom and told myself it was too early to get up and I went back to bed.  Only one problem.  I was wide awake! ...

I had to do a Sam’s Club run for work yesterday morning so I had a little bit of extra time before I had to leave the house.  I had gyros on the menu for dinner last night.  My non-meat eating daughter LOVES gyros and my store routinely sells it in the deli for $5.99 a pound with tzatziki sauce so it’s quite the bargain...

I follow a lot of famous chefs on Instagram, Facebook, etc.  It’s my way of living vicariously through their lives while I sit at my boring desk.  I follow Zoë François– one of the co-authors of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes.  Long time readers will know how much I love that bread recipe, and now that we are getting into cooler temps, I don’t mind...

Can I just say what a difference it makes having a 3-day weekend?  Even though I was super busy all day at Mom’s church for her annual chili dinner on Friday, I was doing what I love (cooking!) and spending time with my Momma – what better combo than that?  And that way my Mom could spend all day with her favorite child.  Duh. You...

It was cold, overcast and windy yesterday, so comfort food breakfast was on my mind!  Since I’ve been doing so many Panera runs for my boss, I’ve been using MY Panera card to get the perks.  Last week I had a coupon off of a loaf of bread, so I picked up a small loaf of sourdough bread and made a breakfast panini with an...

As I was getting ready for work, I realized I still had pumpkin pancake batter in the fridge and in between blogging, getting ready for work, I cooked off two pancakes for work.  It takes a bit longer when the batter is cold so I had to cook them about 4-5 minutes a side. Am I the only one who ALWAYS makes too much pasta? ...

My office got new computers recently and I was lucky enough to score not only a new to me laptop, but a new desktop as well.  My desktop computer is probably six or seven years old and it’s been driving me crazy lately.  I was going to install the new desktop last night, but I was on dog duty.  Both Jacob and Hannah worked last...

I had planned on walking before work yesterday morning, but when I reached for my phone when my alarm went off and saw that it was only 30 degrees, I realized that the outfit I picked out to walk in clearly wasn’t warm enough (which could have been easily fixed by the way!) so I stayed in my cozy bed and did what I think...

Friday night we tried the second of the Blue Apron meals.  Sicilian Pasta with Kale.  Okay, first up, I think the reason I never liked kale when I made it at home is because I left the stem in tact, like romaine.  So when I read the directions to cut the leaves off the stem I was like, huh?!  I’d rate this one about 6...