Last night, I crawled in the bottom bunk to read to Ada. She picked three books like always, a rule we took from one of our favorite stories, Olivia. We read The Giving Tree by the warm glow of twinkle-lights wrapped around the bed frame. It’s one we’ve read many
If you have never had a hot brown before, you are missing out. Big time. According to gotolouisville.com, the hot brown originated from the historical Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky in 1926. The chef, Fred K. Schmidt, created an alternative to the ham and egg suppers that were served to dance
For those of you that don’t know, in my other life I am a children’s yoga teacher. A few years ago I created my own curriculum (called Yogalore) that I use for my classes. Soon after I decided to make the curriculum available to others — parents, grandparents, teachers, and
My mom passed away five years ago; my dad about four years ago. It’s been a rough couple of years for my family. My mom passed away from complications from COPD and emphysema. Her goal was to live long enough to be able to see Jake (my son) graduate high
Last week when I shared our Christmas tour, I included some shots my friend, Stacey Bosley, took of us baking cookies. We were making the closest thing I’ve been able to get to Starbucks’ Cranberry Bliss Bars since I had to go gluten free in 2012. I sure do miss
Dirty chai protein shake — it DOES sound bad!!!!! I have to be honest though, this yummy protein shake isn’t really a DIRTY chai. A real dirty chai latte is a chai latte with espresso added. My version of a dirty chai protein shake is a chai protein shake with