Carrie, Uncle Michael and I decorated a whole gingerbread village yesterday. It’s a *lot* more work putting together and decorating five tiny houses than one big one! Good thing Carrie has teeny-tiny fingers, because Michael and I couldn’t manage the teeny-tiny candies they included in the kit – they were practically sprinkles. I think “candy” [...]
Last night I piped some simple decorations on pre-baked (yes, I cheated) gingerbread men for the bus drivers: And today Carrie and I baked a million (OK, only 16 dozen or so) G.G. cookies. She even stayed up really late to help us decorate them all tonight. This is the first time in years that [...]
I’ve been packing Carrie’s lunch every day, for a few reasons. First, she’s a pretty slow eater, and would likely not have enough time to eat if she had to spend half her lunch period waiting in line. Second, she’s a somewhat picky eater – in that she doesn’t eat “normal” kid foods like pizza [...]
Long-time readers know by now that I have a completely irrational fear regarding spiders. So why I thought I should make these for a party tonight is a mystery. I think I’m going to have nightmares about these things. (They’re just standard deviled eggs with black olives for the spider parts, if for some reason [...]
Since we’re done with the first group of freezer meals but just put the second batch in the freezer we’re winging dinners this week. For some reason I was craving squash, so Carrie and I went to the farmers’ market this afternoon and picked up some acorn squash and carrots, then headed to the grocery [...]
Remember a while back, when I posted about the Mega Menu Mailer experiment? Well, we’ve used all but one of the meals we froze from volume 1, and we just finished putting together the meals from volume 2. (I spent an hour of prep time this afternoon, and Denis and I just spent 3 1/2 [...]
I ordered and downloaded the Mega Menu Mailer from the Saving Dinner site on Friday. I’ve actually used one of their weekly menu mailers in the past, but because my parents live so close and we do spur-of-the-moment meals with them or just don’t feel like cooking sometimes a 6-meal-a-week shopping list and recipe plan [...]