Wow!  That was quick!  Seems like only weeks ago we were complaining about the heat!  But here comes the cold.  If you are growing some winter veggies, and I hope you are, it's time to get them a little protection.  They want to be tucked in at night and it doesn't have to be pretty, [...]

Whatever kind of a bad day we could be going through, this woman is going through much worse. She is a fellow blogging mom out of Texas, who has been writing – quite heroically – about her family as they go through the challenge of their life: their baby has heart disease, and he's not [...]

OK, park the guiltmobile in the garage. No time for pumpkin carving this year? Or has that pumpkin turned to mush before the big day? Or are your kids like mine — they like pumpkin carving so much they want to carve like six of them? Maybe you're a very sophisticated pumpkin carver and you [...]

So this H1N1 situation is quite amusing to me. The other day – it was last Tuesday, actually – I decided to hot foot it over to the Fresno County Health Department's downtown office with four of my children and get my family loaded up on both the seasonal and H1N1 flu shots. I picked [...]

There should never be a morning where Batter Up Pancakes isn't packed. But usually, I can walk right in, order something like the drool inducing chocolate chip pancake above, and slip into a wonderful carb-coma a few minuets later. The pancakes there are amazing and they'll make them with just about anything you want. They even put [...]

No meal feels complete until you’ve have a little something sweet. It doesn’t have to be big, but something. Fruit is such a wonderful choice. It seems an odd time to talk about fruit because we think of spring and summer harvests but, fruit requires some advance planning. The longer you put if off, the [...]

One day of a holiday is way too much pressure for me, the Mom. I mean everyone looks to us to make it just perfect. Ugh. Can't take it. What if, on somebody's special birthday, you've got a migraine — or the power goes out, or somebody has the flu? So that memory is just ruined forever? That [...]