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We’ve come full circle in this year of firsts without the love of my life.  No more second firsts, because I’ve been through them all already.  First Christmas, New Years, birthday, etc.  Each one had it’s own feeling of regret that Tony wasn’t here with me.  If I had to say which ones, I’d have to say my birthday, because he always made me feel...

Over the Thanksgiving weekend I watched my SIL’s dog.  He’s tiny, like six pounds or something like that.  She brought him over once before she left for the weekend to visit her son and his family for Thanksgiving and the dogs seemed to get along.  Well, that was while Jody was here.  Once he got dropped off on Thursday morning, it was pretty clear that...

I hope you all had a fabulous long weekend.  It started with a delicious Thanksgiving dinner and ended with friends for lunch on Sunday.  It was productive and low key at the same time, just what I needed! So I am sharing all the wonderful nut recipes that I received – they are in no particular order.    If the recipes were submitted by food bloggers,...

I just wanted to write a quick note this morning.   I want to thank all of you who take time out of your day to stop by this little blog of mine.   I never would have imagined 7 1/2 years ago how many wonderful people I would meet through this blog and how your support, especially this past year has kept me going and keeping...

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...