So, I heard this week is “Pet Peeve Week.” Seriously. Well, I don’t know about you, but I hear plenty of griping all year long – I don’t know that it needs a whole week of its own. So, to counteract “Pet Peeve Week”, I thought I’d offer up the opposite. A “Count Your Blessings”
Hah! If you've read here at all, you know I do everything on a budget! So decorating for any season would have to be done frugally. Our living room (great room?) has a large stone fireplace as the focal point. I adore it, but it also bugs me. It's missing a mantel. Which I'm sure
What do I mean by ‘cutting the cord’? Well, in our case specifically, it was cutting the satellite cord – we were DirecTV junkies. We’d been loyal customers for over 10 years, and we were happily paying over $150 a month for our pleasure. We had multiple DVRs, multiple boxes, premium channels – the whole
Disclaimer: I’m not a chef, I have no training. I’m not of Hispanic lineage, but our family adores Mexican cuisine. I totally made this recipe up. Remember when I promised Candy’s Amazing Mexican rice? Well, I was recently made aware that some think the word “amazing” is completely overused these days. Amazing, right? 😉 Ha!
Hi again from my little corner of NC. Life has once again thrown me a curveball – I’m beginning to think life is just a bunch of curveballs! I’m recovering from gallbladder surgery as I write this. For those of you keeping score – yes, mark down three surgeries in less than two years for