I’ve already had a pretty monumental month and it’s not even over yet! Being the amazingly advanced baby he is, P cut a bunch of 2 year molars at 14 months old. Sigh. Let me tell you, the past month has been sleepless in Nashville, y’all. Good news though, those suckers are now visible and we’ve been …
January was a huge month for our household. We celebrated Baby P’s first birthday, complete with a decadent chocolate cake, lots of presents, a kiddie party, out-of-town grandparents, Snowpacolypse and only one meltdown (from me)! I’d say that’s pretty good, considering everything…
Happy New Year!! I’m sneaking this pie in just under the “new resolutions January deadline”. People, I am serious when I write; this pie is one of the best dessert things I’ve ever eaten. I struggle to describe how stupendous it tastes! It’s an amazing amalgam of chocolate custard meets a salty, buttery vanilla crust. As far …
I participated in my good friend’s fundraising event again this year: the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. The swap raises money for the non-profit charity, Cookies for Kids Cancer. Lindsay of Love & Olive Oil together with Julie of The Little Kitchen helped raised over $7,000 this season, pairing hundreds of bloggers with their cookie swap matches.
Ok, I know making homemade vanilla extract sounds super intimidating and overly ambitious, but honestly vanilla extract barely requires a recipe, and the reward is the most intoxicatingly warm vanillariffic extract EVER. It took me about 7 minutes to throw this together. The hardest part is waiting a whole month for the beans to steep before using. …
When I told my sister I made marshmallows she laughed and said, “why?”. I know she thinks I am ridiculous and also that I should have another kid if I have enough time on my hands to make homemade marshmallows. In my defense, I’ve been planning to make my own marshmallows for months now, and I’ve finally found the time to …
A couple of weeks ago I had a good friend and client ask me if I had yet come out of “First Year hiding”. He explained the strange process a couple experiences when you have baby number one; you disappear socially for about a year. You lose track of everyone you hung out with before …
On a whim, I picked up a magazine in the grocery check-out lane just because the beautiful cover photo caught my eye. Little did I know, the entire magazine was basically an ad for King Arthur Flour. On the one hand, it was kind of nice, as there were no other ads for anything, but on …
Blah blah blah, new moms have no time and are perpetually tired. Blah blah, seasoned moms have no time and are perpetually tired. Blah. I really don’t want to be one of those people who complain about having NO TIME for myself and the things I wanted to do anymore post baby. I wanted to be super …
It’s that time of Tennessee summer for me. That “I-won’t-blow-dry-my-hair-anymore-because-it’s-too-dang-hot-outside” time of summer. Jeans have been retired to the back corner of my closet. My hair has permanent ponytail kink because again, it’s just too dang hot to have hair on your neck. It’s so swelteringly humid it makes me not want to cook anything. In fact, …
