Celebrations & Seasons

Happy Memorial Day everyone! Hope you and yours are enjoying a lovely day together. We woke up late this morning, had a little breakfast and then made a big batch …

This Prosciutto and Arugula Deviled Eggs recipe is a lovely appetizer for any celebration, featuring salty prosciutto and peppery arugula in the creamy deviled egg filling. When my friend came …

What do you do on New Year’s Eve? Nearly every year for as long as I can remember, I have stayed home, watched a movie and ate some delicious food. …

Our massive lawn is buried deep beneath snow. Our driveway is still white, though passable even with my little Civic. And those big C9 lights that I rushed to put …

Peppermint. Dark chocolate. White chocolate. Those flavors together just scream winter and holidays and good times. It’s hard to believe that I went so many years without tasting this delightful …

One of my favorite things to do every holiday season is to make tons and tons of treats to give to my friends and family. I literally spend days baking, …

As an experienced blogger (I’ve been blogging here for four years!), I think more about the timing of topics when posting now. When I first started, I wrote about what …

When I was planning Thanksgiving this year, a lot of it was pretty simple. After five years of preparing Thanksgiving dinner, I have a pretty good idea of timing, what …

When I was in first or second grade, we learned about cornucopias. Somewhere between coloring the ditto sheet and learning about this so-called horn-of-plenty, I decided that my family was …

Yesterday, we were just sitting down to breakfast when Paige said, “Mommy, water please?” (She’s two, so that’s a pretty darn good sentence!) Will echoed the request. Shawn laughed a …