The Blathering 2012: New Orleans!

Just in case you’re not on Twitter, registration for the Blathering 2012 (aka the best weekend of the whole year) opened today.  Hope to see you there, and by the way I’m totally ready to eat 10,000 beignets.      

Booty Call

Ok, people, I need your help. For Christmas, from Mr. E, I am asking for a pair of boots. A MYTHICAL pair of boots, it would appear, although you’d think it wouldn’t be that hard.  So here’s what I want: Real leather, brown, and easy on and easy off, so I can just throw them [...]

What’s Wrong With Me?

Let’s talk about anxiety and depression, because nothing says Happy Thanksgiving! like a big old chat about mental health, am I right? So, essentially all my life I have been a little high strung.  A little shy.  A little bit of the type of person who has a hard time with change and new things. [...]

Candle Time

Let me tell you about Candle Time! Candletime is a made up thing that I first read about over on Ask Moxie…you are all reading Moxie, right? I shudder to imagine a world in which I am forced to raise children without Ask Moxie in my bookmarks and Arwen available via email. Anyway, the gist [...]

Thanksgiving Table Settings

So far this year I’m way more excited about the Thanksgiving place settings than am I am about the food. I do love a good over the top Thanksgiving table setting. The table  cloth here is my canvas painter’s tarp.  I don’t know.  It’s huge so it’s nice and drapey and romantic.  Kind of reminds [...]

Thanksgiving in Menus

The other day Sarah was talking about how much she loves reading Thanksgiving and Christmas menus, and I must admit this is also one of my guilty pleasures.  One of my favorite things about my copy of Edna Lewis’s Taste of Country Cooking are the menus, just the other night I was reading them out [...]

Ten Things I Love About You

1. The way you walk in a room, throw open your arms, and scream “OOOOOOOH!” every single time you put on a new piece of clothing. 2. The way you look all over the house, desperate to find me, calling “Mama? Mama? MAMA?” and toddling as fast as you can. 3. The hair.  DUDE.  That [...]

Our Advent Calendar Activities

(You’ll see these again starting December 1st. Look out.) Also, there’s tons of ideas for easy and cheap advent calendars on Pinterest, even just using envelopes.  Or there’s this one at Land of Nod which is super cute for a mere $35, shipped.  Which is a really good price for a reusable fabric Advent Calendar. [...]

Christmas Plan, Year Two

First of all, I was checking my archives to see when I first started getting crabby about Christmas last year, and HOLY DOG YOU GUYS.  Get that woman some anti depressants.  Jesus.  I was basically curled up in the corner at the mere mention of the holidays.  Anyway. This year I am actually sort of, [...]

Rotten

So in this blog post I talk about sexual assault and I do swear more than I normally do.  Fair warning if that is not for you.  When we lived in Nebraska, many moons ago, one day as I was walking to work, a young kid, maybe in his twenties? Ran up to me, slammed [...]