Mmmmm. Thanksgiving. I love spending the day with my family and have figured out that cooking a little bit each day leading up to Thursday gives me plenty of time out of the kitchen on the actual holiday.
We’re not hosting Thanksgiving this year but are taking along the sides and desserts so I’ve been cooking [...]

Our Thanksgiving this year will be one unlike any other my daughter has experienced in her short life.
I’m cooking.
Now, for most of my adult life, I’ve cooked and served Thanksgiving dinner for our family. There were a few years pre-kids and after the boys were born that we had dinner at this or that grandparent’s [...]

My high school senior brought home the paperwork last week for putting a baby picture in his yearbook. No way was I going to miss that chance, especially since he’s gone from being this chunk of baby cuteness to a 6′1″ string bean.
Among the pictures I dug out was this one. Both boys on the [...]

I love to cook. Always have. Somewhere in storage, there’s a picture of me — no more than nine years old — with a bowl and sign proclaiming “Mary’s Famous Tuna Salad.” Didn’t know I was so modest, did you? ha ha ha ha!
Before I forget … the disaster cake came, in part, from a [...]

Here’s the little cupcake dress I finished the other night. OK, mostly finished — it still needs buttons and buttonholes (any suggestions for button color?) but otherwise is done. Oh, wait. I need to rip out the hem and redo it. See how wonky it looks? It’s not just the picture. The hem really is [...]