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Yep, the football season has begun.  This is Tony’s favorite time of year hands down.  While he hates the fall and winter season, it is the season of football so that helps him get through the winter months.  So on Mondays, Thursdays and all day Sundays, I pretty much could dance around the house naked and Tony wouldn’t notice.  But he loves the game so...

If my blog were a child, it would be starting first grade this year!  Think of all the things a child does from infancy until first grade.  That’s what I think about my blog when I look back on it.  I had no idea what I was doing back in September of 2008.  And I still don’t know a lot, but all I know is...

If my Dad were still alive, he’d be 76 years old in October of this year.  But my Dad lost his battle with cancer 16 years ago today.  My Mom and I were talking about it over the weekend when she was here.  We said that not only do we still miss him, but he’s missed.  My Dad had a way of making you feel...

I love three day weekends.  Something about that extra day where I feel I don’t have to be productive every minute of the weekend, because I have one more day to get stuff done.  This weekend was a perfect balance of rest, relaxation and productivity. I think I told you our gas grill died.  RIP – you served us well these last 10+ years!  But...

By now, if you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you know that my recipe was one of the top voted recipes in the Away From Home Cooking contest, so now I’ll face three other dishes for the cook-off in New York with Sunny Anderson!   I had to fill out paperwork, disclosures that I am not a professional chef (ha!) and I had to send...

Yesterday was another “throw shit in a bag” food day for me.  I kind of don’t mind those days – makes you get a bit creative I guess?  Breakfast was the last of my blueberry pancakes – I must have gotten interrupted because this is the one and only shitty pic of breakfast, but it was tasty! One of my co-workers asked if she could...

Since I was just grocery shopping mainly for me this week, I relied on my freezer yesterday for breakfast.  We have two refrigerators with freezers.  The downstairs fridge is usually “my” fridge for the bulky stuff like romaine lettuce, bags of tomatoes for salsa, etc.  But I forget that I put shit in the freezer all the time down there.   Sometimes six months goes by...

Yesterday we had a birthday celebration in our office.  Typically we bring stuff in for breakfast treats, and then have cake in the afternoon.  My contribution was my Copycat Nature Valley Granola Bars, and my blueberry lemon scones.  I made the granola last night while I was making dinner.  I have to say, I skip the step of toasted the oats and I can’t tell...

One of the first things I did when Tony was referred to Mayo Clinic was to call my insurance company and find out if Mayo Clinic is in network.  I have something called an HSA insurance over a PPO.   For us, we each have a $2,500 deductible, and then everything is covered at 100%.  You may recall that Tony was hospitalized on January 1 of...

I didn’t talk about it last week because Tony didn’t want to get his parents or his son and his daughter in law worried.  Remember the lab work we had done last week that was going to go to Mayo?  Well, they took one look at it, and basically told us to get straight to our local ER.  Damn – we went 12 days without...