I love it when the guys help me with projects. I really, really, do.
We’ve made fish cakes with enough icing to sink the Titanic and cookies crammed with so many sprinkles you could lose a …
It’s not necessarily odd that I’d never made snickerdoodles before tonight.
What is odd, though, is that I’d never had one until a couple of years ago, when someone brought some into work for a potluck. …
Good for Army Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo III for backing off his threat to court martial any soldier who gets pregnant – or who assists in putting another soldier in a family way – while …
I’m a fairly safety-conscious parent who pays attention to the product recalls and knows all the traditional advice: Don’t use lights with frayed cords, keep candles away from flammable objects, etc.
But never did I imagine …
For a few years, I did Christmas dinner right: Appetizers, followed by prime rib, salad potatoes, fresh green beans and homemade rolls with two different cheesecakes for dessert. We used the Christmas china that had …
So you know all that blah, blah, blah about the best gifts being free?
It’s true. And the proof is in what landed at our house this afternoon fresh from the East Coast – as fresh …
The purest form of love? It’s not that of a parent for a child or of one spouse for another. It’s the love a little boy has for his first true friend.
Big Guy has had …
Were it not for the fact that I’m incapable of rolling pretty little round logs of cookie dough, this might be the perfect recipe. It’s easy to make, has no hard-to-find egg replacers, and two …
Yes, there is such a thing as a cookie that’s too chocolate-y. I thought that was impossible, too, until today.
Based on a recipe from Martha Stewart’s Web site, the egg-free version behaves perfectly. It’s just …
Yes, it is possible to get sick of chocolate. And after making chocolate fudge, chocolate-raspberry fudge and chocolate cookies, I’d reached that point.
So I decided to give haystacks a try. But definitely not the chocolate …
Sitting on the patio in my pajamas in 56 sunny degrees, I felt guilty this morning.
Guilty because, when word of an impending blizzard filtered through Facebook yesterday evening, I called my mom around 6:30 p.m. …
We got a call yesterday morning, just hours before the start of winter break, from Big Guy’s teacher. She’d wanted to know if he’d been sick the past two days – he had – and …
Merry Susan Hyatt is a 61-year-old substitute teacher in Redding, Calif., who’s also taught in Southern California. In all those years she seldom encountered students who weren’t Christian. “I don’t think I’ve ever had a …
A full eight months before he’s to start kindergarten, Boots already knows a half-dozen “sight” words.
I’d never say this to his face because it would break his little heart, but so what?
Yeah, yeah. I know. …
Of all the things to go to the wall with a kid over, hair has to be the most ridiculous.
An odd-ball hair style causes no long-term damage – it can always be cut or grow …
When Big Guy came home yesterday he said his head was “silly” – he blamed it on a 63-question bubble test at school that day, and I was inclined to agree until he staggered upstairs …
Sexting among the high school set is a dangerous trend.
It’s bad enough that a principal in Virginia lost first his job and then his reputation even though he ultimately was cleared.
Bad enough that parents in …
I stood on tip toes and reached high above me, to the top shelf of the coat closet where the bag had been stashed since we moved. I used to leave it open in my …
In the electronic game of cops and robbers, the cops are winning – at least in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Back in February, that court ruled that it was fine for prosecutors to …
An inflatable snowman and Santa stand guard outside, and the tree lights up the living room. The gifts are wrapped, and the guys have seen Santa twice. We’ve made gingerbread houses, and the Christmas programs …
Thursday was a great day for Big Guy.
He won $10 and a chocolate bar at a bingo game then spent $8 of the take on Christmas presents for others. He volunteered to share the candy …
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen. Comet and Cupid and Donder and Blitzen …
But do you know how scary it is up here? Even when the audience is all mommies and daddies …
Somewhere, there’s a”Max and Ruby” episode that involves gingerbread. I haven’t seen it but Boots has, and it set him clamoring to make houses. Foolishly, I promised him last week that we would over the …
If you listened closely last winter, you could hear the soft drum beats in the background as Washington moved to help homeowners facing foreclosure.
“Unless we reduce the principal on loans, people will just walk away,” …
Used to be I thought the weirdest story assignment I’d ever tackled was in seventh grade, when the teacher told us to write about what life would be like inside a ping-pong ball.
That was before …
As much as I hate to crush a kid, sometimes doing so serves the greater good.
Times such as last night, when Big Guy dallied over his latest penance for misbehaving at school. He’d tossed Play-Doh …
I’m almost offended I wasn’t asked, except I realize I’m not in the right age group to be one of the cool kids.
When Daisy Feletin – 21 and single – asked 100 people to be …
Maybe it’s because the guys ask every year, but for me “how did Santa get here” is a far more predictable question than “what do you feed the reindeer.”
It’s also far more likely to cause …
