burnttoast-maybe you could make him some adult coupons? lyndsea-when my husband was a teacher he collected the candy from his students and did the same thing-just don't send chocolate ...

Thanks for sharing everyone. This is exactly what I needed after the long day I had. My best blunder is a baking one. Early in our marriage most of my family and my husbands family were visi...

While I've never been locked in the bathroom my roommate and I were locked in a third floor dorm room for several hours. A campus maintenance man had to use a cherry picked to come in through our w...

Any shade of green. Kelly green for something traditional, sage green for something soft, forest green for something earthy, kiwi green for something modern. Go green.

Bliss.

I'm in love with this blanket. I really think my kids need one. And maybe a niece or nephews as well.

Don't tell me that every award winning chef/cook/baker just **poof** comes up with their own recipe. Recipes are a guide. Read them, try them, play with them, improve upon them, and make them you...

Summer Shandy, Sunset Wheat, (both Leinenkugel's) and Totally Naked (New Glarus) are all hits in our house.

My mother has done this repeatedly as she too uses the oven for storage. We've usually been able to ship off the plastic and then use oven cleaner, there are several on the market that don't smell...

We had our first son and then 13 months later a second son and 17 months later our daughter. Those first years were busy, hard, and exhausting. But they were also so happy and full of joy. If I c...

A friend just painted her cabinets dark raisin or something like that from valspar. Paired with a very pale grayish green wall color your kitchen could really come alive. Oh, and I also lus...

This is exactly what I did for our three kids. When I first introduced the food I'd have pureed them very smooth but as the kids got older I'd leave more chunks. I too am "just" a mom and not a n...

An elderly neighbor told us to sprinkle used grounds in our flower garden to keep a neighborhood cat from using it as a littler box. He even came over every morning to add his grounds just to help ...

When my son was two he named his stick pony Dricken and a stuffed bunny Brigid. He and Brigid rode Dricken all around the house and yard. Both names seem Celtic to me and at the time we lived in s...

My housekeeping motto is "never more than an hour from clean." The wipe down of the bathroom is the first on the list, clean towels, straighten the living room, and a quick vacuum. As far as dinn...

Am I the only one who thinks they look a little like microscope slides of mold?

Our first two are only 13 months apart and have shared a room since #2 was 6 weeks old. We started with two cribs, went to a crib and toddler bed, then two toddler beds, and finally the bunk beds....