Archive for November, 2007

crazy things I want for christmas but won’t get….

prepaid maid service
a neverending grocery gift card … one that never runs out!
a new house all bought and paid for and full of furniture
the van to be paid off
a babysitter once a month, scheduled, paid, and not full of a million reasons they can’t babysite
one of those week long carnival cruises for me and the [...]

the pie will not defeat me this year

I know I have told you that I love to bake. Cakes, cookies, desserts …. I love making them from scratch and playing with ingredients. But, pie. Ugh ~ pie always defeats me. It is the one baked sweetness that I always seem to manage to burn, screw up, add too [...]

Briel Espresso-Cappuccino Coffee Machine

With the way that the average American has increased in terms of the comforts that they want in their life, what you are finding in the marketplace is that a lot of specialty and luxury products are being created and are actually starting to do very well. For example, a lot of coffee [...]

shopping for girls is hard

My niece is having a little birthday party this weekend, she’ll be 7 years old. I got her a little pink stoned tiara, for dress up which she likes to do. And I came across a stack of Strawberry Shortcake dolls. Wow, how these have changed since I was little. Probably [...]

my feet are cold ….

Seriously, my feet are cold. Which is an unusual thing for me. I usually am barefoot when I’m at home. My feet don’t like to be confined to shoes! I do however like a cute sock now and then when my feet are cold, or a white cotton sock when they [...]

buying a cookie tray …

So, today I had it all planned, I was going to walk over to the store at lunch time and get some things for dinner and some ingredients for a cookie platter I was making for Brian to take to work with him tomorrow for their in office Thanksgiving luncheon thingy-ma-bob. He was racking [...]

almost ready for real sparring!

I’m sure I’ve mentioned a bazillion times that Lucas and Ethan are both in a karate class, and they go every Saturday. Lucas is currently a purple belt. An achievement that made us both cry. He worked very hard to get there and he loves his sport so much. A huge [...]


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