Forgetting homework is a mystery to me. I don’t ever remember forgetting my homework as a kid… not unless it was on purpose anyway. I don’t know if it is a boy thing, or an 8 year old thing, or a little kid thing… I think maybe I should ask my mom. My brothers …
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds!!! That’s right. These things are addicting. My kiddos BEG for these things every year when we get down to pumpkin carving and EVERY year I have to stop and think about the oven temperature and all the detail kinds of things. I mean, I dunno about you, but I only hack up …
I need some chocolate after a go-round with not only a finance company but a bank in the last 24 hours. I’m gonna go ahead and guess that the policies put forth by these entities and agencies are a big chunk of the reason people are camped out in front of banks and institutions of wealth across the …
So I didn’t feel like digging through the freezer yesterday when it came time to think about dinner. I was feeling like burgers, but with no thawed ground beef or turkey that was looking like a no-go. Then I found all the cans of black beans that I stock-piled when I read somewhere that they are …
Potato salad : A true staple of the Meat and Potato Diet. I don’t subscribe to that particular brand of eating on a regular basis, but when you’re cooking out with your family you have to embrace it. At our get togethers it is a plain old necessity.
To see an updated [printer-friendly!] version of this recipe check out my Chewy Apple Peanut Butter Bars Starting in February every year (the 8th to be exact) the Tullos family has what we always refer to as “Birthday Season”. Once the birthday season ball starts rolling it DOES NOT STOP until August. It is nearly …
There are some things that will always make me smile no matter how bad my day is. Like when my kids bring home really funny school work. (Translation: I can drive and talk on the phone.) Finding money in a coat pocket. Brownies. And when Chad reads the mustard bottle. That’s right. The bottle says “delightfully spicy”. But …
Carpool Cookies are thick, hearty chocolate chip pecan cookies with oats and sweetened coconut. They are the perfect snack for riding in the car! I definitely wrote this original post after a fit of carpool road rage back when my youngest kid was still in the second grade. Carpool lines are the bane of my …
If I ever ask my children what they want for dinner, I get a handful of standard answers: pizza, tacos, cheeseburgers, or, “Hey, we could go to the China Buffet. We haven’t been out to eat in awhile and it’s pretty cheap.” “Cheap” is a relative term when you’re 11. I would love to go …
Macaroni and cheese out of the box was a major staple of my youth. It’s cheap and pretty filling and you can get two boxes for a dollar. Add in a can of tuna, some cream of whatever soup, a little milk and melt some American cheese on top and you have the old broke …