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Jacob got a new job on Friday.  He was working at Home Depot, but it was a 30 minute drive from the house, and the hours were kind of crazy.  Now he’s working at Sherwin-Williams in the next town over, so I picked him up a steak to celebrate on Friday night.   Hannah and I had our signature ricotta cheese and spinach pizza, and we...

So, the mower isn’t working again.  Jacob tried for over an hour to get it going, but the battery seems dead, even though I just replaced it.  Both our neighbors on either side have already mowed their lawns this week so that makes ours look like trailer trash.  I can hear Tony saying “Biz, you need to take care of the lawn!” Well, I have...

I actually haven’t minded our cool mornings lately.  The only bad part about it is that I don’t want to get up in the morning because it is such perfect sleeping weather.  I woke up yesterday morning, grabbed my phone and saw this “Congratulations, you won the Illinois State Lottery!”  I won $6.  Jacob asked me what I would do if I won the lottery...

About a week ago, blog reader Jenn M. (hey Jenn!) posted on my Facebook wall that King Arthur flour had an everything bagel seasoning.  What?!  I clicked the link and saw this! But then I saw the price tag – $10!  So I decided to make my own.  I already had the poppy seeds and sesame seeds, so I bought dried garlic and yes. ....

It was a weird weather day yesterday.  Started out rainy, then threats of storms, then super cloudy then clear skies by the end of the day, only to get SUPER windy when I went to bed last night.  It was so awesome to be under all the covers and having that cold breeze coming in through the window.  I ended up making a spinach and...

The only word that can describe my Saturday was . . . lazy!  I am so not like that.  I usually have a list of things I am going to cook up, chores that I want to get done, and well, that didn’t happen and it was a great day.  I woke up at 10:00 a.m.!  Lounged around on the computer and ended up baking...

Every year Tony would send flowers to his Mom on Mother’s Day.  I decided that I would continue the tradition, and yesterday flowers were delivered to her in memory of Tony.  I am sure it surprised her but I wanted to let her know that even though Tony isn’t here anymore, we are still family.  I think this picture below was the last picture of...

I now sleep the way I love.  Window open, breeze blowing over my face and under all the covers.  The only tiny problem with that is that our black curtains are open so I can feel the breeze, and well, the sunrise is now around 5:45 in the morning and the light wakes me up.  But I actually don’t mind.  I woke up around 6:15...

Since I’ve been going through old pictures lately it’s brought back a ton of memories from my past.  It’s amazing how you can forget something and just the look of a persons face, or the location will bring the memory back like it just happened yesterday.  Jacob hasn’t heard many of my stories, and there are even several that Hannah doesn’t remember me telling her...

I’ve made homemade bagels before here and here, but the texture was always a bit off.  So over the weekend I looked over a bunch of bagel recipes over the weekend and came up with this recipe.  Making bagels or any type of bread isn’t as intimidating as you think – it just takes patience of kneading the dough and letting the dough rise.  Which...