I don't do Black Friday. Fighting my way through crowded stores filled with frantic bargain hunters does not put me in a holiday spiri...

Last week I took the kids with me to wander around Stone's Education & Toys store -- it's a beautiful, environmentally-friendly...

Christmas traditions can be wonderful, conjuring up memories of happy times together with friends and family. They can also be stressful, pi...

One of the downsides of actually learning to cook (and doing it regularly) is that you're bound to make some stuff that tastes bad now...

Many of you probably kicked your Christmas tree to the curb on Monday. You Scroogey Grinches, you. But because I have a strict no-tree-bef...

This is what my son's face usually looks like: Nearly always smiley and happy. Often silly or goofy. Occasionally grumpy or frustr...

Halloween got rained out at our house tonight. Thankfully, our kids are young enough that they didn't seem to care. Plus, they'd a...

Never thought I'd see snow on my outdoor Christmas decorations in North Carolina!

On the first day of Christmas, my children gave to me a chance to pee in privacy. On the second day of Christmas, my children gave to ...

In case it's hard to see, she has at least seven ponytails in there.

Alternate Title: Why You Wish You Lived in My Neighborhood With apologies to Clement Clark Moore or Henry Livingston, or whoever wrote the ...

There's just not enough time in the day. And there are lots and lots of reasons for that -- but here are five photos to explain why I ha...

I’d already set up my Christmas cards when I found out that Shutterfly was offering this great deal for bloggers to get 50 of their beautifu...

I really want to have a week off from my life so that I could write all the blog posts that are in my head and on various lists around my de...

Photo of Christmas decorations appeared around the entrance to Crabtree Valley Mall this week.  This, the third week of frickin OCTOBER..

Junius wrote his first letter to Santa this week. I'm not sure who was more excited about it -- Junius or his daddy. Thanks to some real...

Preschool is closed until the new year. I should probably be excited about the opportunity to spend two whole weeks with my beautiful childr...

If you think you might be getting a Christmas gift from me this year and you'd like to be surprised by said gift, you should stop readin...

If you get this holiday treat from me, pretend you don't know how crazy easy it is to make. Over the years, I've slightly modified t...

We got our tree this weekend, much to the delight of my son. I usually have a pretty strict no-Christmas-decorating-until-after-my-birthday ...