You know all those horror stories you hear about children falling out their upstairs bedroom window? Yeah, well, we fortunately didn’t have that happen to us, but by some freak accident that seems to only happen in our household, we DID somehow manage to puncture our screen and launch it about 500 feet away from our house instead. It was Read More...

One of the most touching things we’ve ever experienced was when B arrived at a friend’s birthday party of about 30 people, only to be told that the cookies about to be decorated had been intentionally made without eggs just so she could participate. I’ll never forget the look on her face, nor will I ever stop being grateful for Read More...

My husband has always been a clean-shaven guy who would get a haircut every three months like clockwork – but ever since COVID-19 started, it’s almost as if he’s been in a competition to see how uncivilized he can make himself look. It started around mid-March, when the fact that he began working from home allowed him to only shave Read More...

Back when I first got our slow cooker, I remember being really excited to look for new recipes. The thrill has greatly subsided since becoming a mom, but I was lucky enough to have found some pretty good recipes in my early days, which have gotten me through the past four years – and this Crockpot chicken with olives is Read More...

I have a problem with bugs. As far as I can tell, they serve absolutely no purpose and I’d like to live my entire life without ever coming in contact with one. And in terms of hierarchy, the mosquito ranks at the very TOP of this list of my most hated living things. I’ve tried very hard to mask my Read More...

I spent most of my life thinking that chocolate pudding came from a box. To be honest, boxed chocolate pudding really isn’t all that bad – it’s just not rich enough for me. If you share the same sentiment, check out the below recipe, which was super-easy, tasted amazing, and was adapted from this Epicurious recipe to include more chocolate Read More...

Do you have any idea what the term FPIES means? I sure didn’t, until my daughter was diagnosed with it. And despite weeks of nonstop research, I’ve still not found any situation that’s similar to ours, so I’m writing – for the first time ever – a “Day in the Life” blog post that ISN’T humorous, in the hopes that Read More...

I’ve never been a French toast fan. There’s something about soggy bread that just doesn’t appeal to me, no matter how crispy you end up getting it. But both my daughter and husband seem to have no problem with that, so we’ve recently modified this online recipe to make it work for our egg-allergic family. There are two main benefits Read More...

We went to the local farm the other day. No, not the one where I almost died, but a different one that’s a lot emptier but still has some animals to keep B entertained. And everything was going just fine until we got… our first splinter. I knew it was coming, because B wouldn’t stop running her hands back and Read More...

In case you can’t tell by now, we’re a chocolate family. My husband found this easy recipe online for egg-free double chocolate muffins and we adapted it to make it as easy as possible while working with the ingredients we already had in our cabinet. While it’s totally different than the chocolate-glazed scones I posted earlier, it’s still equally good. Read More...

You know how you can yell at your kids for two hours straight and they won’t hear a word you’re saying, but you can accidentally drop an F-bomb and they’ll repeat that for the rest of their lives? Well, that’s what’s happening in our household right now, but with a different set of words. As you know, B’s first language Read More...

I’ve been allergic to nuts my entire life – so it’s only natural that one of my daughter’s favorite things to eat is, of course, nuts. And what better way to get as many of them together at once than to put them in… granola! Most moms would wisely heed the glaring warning signs here and just stay away from Read More...

You may remember Part I of our COVID Chronicles, where I encountered a woman walking through my backyard wearing a face mask and holding a saw. I truly thought Lady with a Saw had escaped from the mental ward at a nearby hospital and that she would have been picked up by now, but apparently I was mistaken. Last night, Read More...

One of the best things about stews is that you can set them and pretty much forget about them until it’s dinnertime. My husband came across this recipe for carne guisada (Mexican-style beef) during one of his endless quests for new foods to try, and thankfully – unlike many of the ones he ends up finding – this one turned Read More...

Allow me to start this post by saying that I do not like camping. I’ve tried very hard to find some redeeming qualities about it, but the “fresh air” brings bugs, the “family bonding time” results in fighting over whether that sound was the wind or a grizzly bear, and the “saving money” part ultimately ends up costing a fortune Read More...

The other day, my husband surprised me by making vegan chocolate-glazed scones for breakfast. Actually, he surprised my daughter by making vegan chocolate-glazed scones for breakfast, but I’ll take whatever I can get these days – especially if it saves me from cooking a meal. I honestly didn’t have high hopes, but I stand corrected because they. were. AWESOME. Here’s Read More...

There’s a saying that “so I stepped away for just a second…” is the beginning of every parenting horror story, and today it proved completely true. ** Disclaimer: article may include affiliate links, which do not affect the price you pay. ** We had just finished eating dinner. It was time to switch my laundry from the washing machine to Read More...

Since becoming a mom, I’ve grown to appreciate the word “easy” more than I ever thought possible. It’s fairly logical to infer, then, that one of my favorite recipes is for this EASY soy sauce chicken (not to be confused with an earlier STIR-fry chicken I also posted). The biggest challenge is remembering to marinate it overnight, but once you’ve Read More...

Remember when you became a parent for the first time? That overwhelming feeling of cluelessness that engulfed you both day and night? That fog you lived in for, I don’t know, two years or so? From those days, are there certain memories that stuck with you? Maybe the first time your child laughed, the first time they slept through the Read More...

The phrase, “where’s the beef?” has special meaning to me. My parents glow with pride as they recount stories of how, at the tender age of three, I would inhale a king-cut portion of prime rib and french fries, then look towards my father’s plate and steal his. One of my mother’s greatest fears in life is that she will Read More...