Upon threat of divorce I didn’t just toss the rem­nants of Thanksgiving…my fridge is full of left­overs.  Left­overs that I know Sher­man will not be able to eat all of.  Thanks­giv­ing here was a great suc­cess, but even the best of meals, when they are as large as the ones we had, are bound to […]

A note to future me on this day before Thanks­giv­ing.…
Dear Amanda,
I had a few tips for you this Thanks­giv­ing sea­son, so if you have a few moments, please, read…and remem­ber.
Under no cir­cum­stances should you be try­ing to brine the turkey while you have a lit­tle one in the room…yes he is very con­tent and happy, […]

My life has been plagued by nails this past few days.  The kiddo is in a grab­bing pinch­ing scratch­ing phase.  He loves to garb, he thinks its cool.  Unfor­tu­nately his nails are like lit­tle razor blades, even right after a trim­ming.  So when I go to bed to let my lit­tle wounds heal I would […]

I can’t say that we were POOR grow­ing up, we prob­a­bly were but it didn’t always feel that way.  Erin and I always got new clothes for Christ­mas, we didn’t get the new wardrobes twice a year like some friends but we were a lit­tle spoiled by Grand­par­ents.  We never went hun­gry, we always had […]

We are host­ing Thanks­giv­ing at Casa de Tres Bauschs.  I’m super excited!  I haven’t played host­ess in quite some time, and when Karah men­tioned “cen­ter­pieces” today I got all a flut­ter, fol­lowed by a wave of panic.
I offi­cially have one week; seven days; one hun­dred sixty-eight hours; 10,080 min­utes; 604,800 sec­onds, to get this house presentable.  […]

My meals have been look­ing really good to me lately.  Like, good enough to go…“Oh that’s really pretty, I think I’ll take a pic­ture.”  So, break­fast from yes­ter­day, per­fect over medium egg and home made Irish soda bread with real but­ter, and lunch from today, sushi…spicy roll with tuna, salmon, and shrimp.  Just thought I’d […]

I’m not a fash­ion guru.  I’m also an old lady in a lot of peo­ples eyes, but seri­ously, you in the “Scar­face” sweatshirt…you just look goofy…
Oh, I get it, bad ass Cuban drug deal­ers are cool…but you are nei­ther bad ass, cuban, or a drug dealer (I’m assum­ing).  You are a late 20’s white guy using […]

The past cou­ple days Ijah has been ALL about Dad, which is cool, unfor­tu­nately Dad isn’t home with him.  It’s cute really, he’s just kinda going through the day, not super excited, but not super sad, fuss­ing here and there, but when Dad is around…BEAM Happy lit­tle dude.
This has been […]

I just crawled into bed (with my hus­band imple­mented 8:30 bed­time 10:00 lights out because of my recent spacey exhausted and loom­ing cold) and found some teething beads and a stuffed mon­key rat­tle…
That would have been strange a year ago…at least the teething beads would have…