Peace, Love & Cupcakes: Making Cupcakes At Jilly’s

Peace, Love & Cupcakes: Making Cupcakes At Jilly’s

Willy Wonka's or Jilly's Cupcakes?  Yummy!

Your email:  American Girl dolls. American Girl dolls is all I have been hearing for over a year.  Our daughter can’t get enough of them and when asked what she would like for her birthday, the holidays, or on a Wednesday (joke), she doesn’t pause to take a breath or give the question any additional [...]

Twenty-Two Things I’ve Never Done

Twenty-Two Things I’ve Never Done

The One Place in the World I want to see

This post was inspired by the Pioneer Woman’s list of the top 22 things that she has never done and by Kat from “Mama’s Losin’ It.” We started counting down the days to my 40th birthday last May.  As the day draws ever closer, I took a moment to list the top 22 things that I have [...]

Weary World Traveler Lessons

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.  –John Steinbeck The travel season is upon us, so I am diverting from my usual Mommy-talk to post about my parent’s recent inexplicable experiences in the Ukraine. Don’t worry, I won’t make it too graphic for those of [...]