Living in Massachusetts requires a person to make certain… “sacrifices”: the beaches are rocky, the sports fans are crazy, and, yes, the winters are long. A friend of mine from high school had given me a recipe for Spaghetti & Meatball “Stoup” (“thicker than soup, thinner than stew”) that quickly became one of my favorite go-to meals when it was …
My daughter was never one for sleeping. Up until she was 20 months old, it was standard protocol for her to be awake every three hours, and the notion of “sleeping through the night” was a completely laughable theoretical concept to me. She finally started to get the hang of it around 24 months, and I think she’s been making …
Let me start off this post by saying that I absolutely adore the B. Toys brand. We own – and love – a ton of their products, and the Battat Grocery Cart and B. Woofer Guitar easily make our “Top Five Best Toys” list. But one toy we are NOT a fan of is the B. Toys B.eauty Pops Snap …
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Everyone jokes about how the quarantine due to COVID-19 is making them crazy, but today, I actually saw hard evidence of this – in my backyard. We live in an apartment complex that shares a common front lawn. Most days, it’s filled with people playing ball, riding bikes, or walking dogs. But COVID-19 has obviously stopped all of this, and …
I’ve never been a real fan of cooking. Even as a kid, my mom – who’s a phenomenal cook – would try to get me into the kitchen, but I just never had any interest. As a result, I also unsurprisingly never inherited any real skill either. When I became a mom, that interest level reached record lows. And it …
Even before we all went into quarantine thanks to COVID-19, my mother was dying her own hair. She did this due to being both extremely cheap and extremely cautious, only using semi-permanent hair color that she believed would do her less harm than whatever a beauty salon would do. That all changed a few days ago. Let’s back up for …
As I’ve mentioned before, my daughter’s pretty allergic to eggs. And as you’ve probably figured out by now, I’m pretty obsessed with dessert. This combination doesn’t usually mesh well, which typically leaves me really depressed and her really hungry. I found a recipe for vegan chocolate cake in an old issue of All Recipes magazine and have made it a …
My daughter is pretty observant – a trait that she most definitely gets from her father and not me. And even though she’s not in school yet, COVID-19 has impacted her world in ways I never imagined. Take toilet paper, for instance. From the moment she started potty-training, B had a fascination with toilet paper. At first, we let her …
