Do you eat? I hope so. Then listen up! I have a cookbook to give away. Yep. I have my first real and true blog giveaway, and I can’t think of a better thing for me to give away than a COOKBOOK! The lovely folks over at Random House and Blogging for Books have offered to give one of my readers a copy of this- The B.T.C. Old… Keep Reading
Archives for 2014
If This Is The First Year All Your Kids In School- RELAX! You’ve Earned it!
Two years ago it happened. The day I had been waiting, anticipating, and desperately pining for like no other day. After being an at home mom to four little boys for 14 years, all of my boys would finally be in school. All of them, in real school, all day. I was bursting at the seams when I finally dropped the youngest son off at kindergarten. The whole day lay ahead of me, and with it so many deliciously liberating… Keep Reading
See Ya Later “Sanctimommies!”
So I learned a new word this week. It is ‘sanctimommy.’ It is defined as a mom who in every way, shape, or form is raising their kids totally right, and you are raising yours totally wrong, and sanctimommies are sure as hell going to tell you all about how wrong you are doing it, and how right they are doing it. Odd they would have enough time to troll the internet and mom shame the day away, seeing as… Keep Reading
5 Ways I Will Be A Different School Mom This Year
Back to school time is upon us, and if you are like me, this time of year feels a little like January, in that we are making another new start, making promises and resolutions to do this school year better than last. Every year I make the same ones, like we will always be on time for school, I will not lose any permission slips, I will pack lunches the night before. But this fall I am adding a few… Keep Reading
Back to School Pictures I Won’t Be Taking
I spotted this on Pinterest today. Very bad idea to type in “back to school” in the search box. Very. Bad. Idea. I am more and more becoming that WTF!? mother. Four boys, and over 13 years of first days of school will do that to you. Yes, it’s absolutely adorable, and yes, I would actually like to snap some of those scenes, and yes, I am sure many mothers can and will complete this list. And it will be… Keep Reading
The South In Your Mouth- 4 Southern Cookbooks Reviewed
Southern food has come a long way, and so have southern cookbooks. Gone are the days of red gingham lined pages filled with chicken ’n dumpling, fried okra, and peach cobbler recipes. Modern southern cooking has spawned a new crop of talented foodies and chefs, born and raised in the south, who grew up eating farm to table and foraging their eggs from the backyard chicken coop way before was in vogue. Some were classically trained at the world’s best… Keep Reading