My alarm went off at 4 a.m. It wasn’t so much that I mind getting up early, but the thought of driving Amy to San Diego to catch a plane that would take her to the other side of the world made me want to hit the snooze button- for about the next 4 years….

Super Bowl! Do you ever wonder how those in the NFL spotlight started out? Did Eli Manning make his mom play catch in the backyard? Anyway… some of the fun of having kids isn’t when we, as parents, teach them something, but when they teach us something.   Yesterday we went to the Colfax High…

My family’s love language can fit into a jar.. a cookie jar. No matter how busy life gets, our kids and their friends know that my cookie jar always has something home-baked in it. From chocolate chip, oatmeal craisin, to  peanut butter cookies, we love them all. But I would have to say that gingersnaps…

[youtube]http://youtu.be/cobL3N7ljHk[/youtube] My friend Dori is SO creative. She is always taking something she finds at a garage sale and turns it into something fabulous. One of the things she did was take an old suitcase and use chalkboard paint on one of the sides. She  writes “welcome” on it, or takes it to vintage swaps…

Some of my earliest childhood memories involved loading up musty camping gear into our old green Travel-all and several of our favorite 8 track tapes for family road trips. Mom always packed a bag of snacks for the ride. Those were the days before high fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated oil were part of…