Updated on May 20, 2015
Root Beer Pulled Pork
With the Memorial Day weekend coming up, most of you probably have visions of barbecue dancing in your head, but with all the rain many of us around the country are experiencing, the dream may not become a reality. Crock pot to the rescue! With this recipe, you can have delicious barbecue pulled pork, with little effort, no matter how much it rains.
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Updated on May 18, 2015
Caprese Salad {a few options}
I love this salad, appetizer, lunch…thingy. Caprese salad is a simple combination of fairly basic ingredients, but it makes my mouth so happy. The flavor combination is amazing. If you wait until you can get some home-grown tomatoes it will be SUPER amazing. Almost nothing can beat the taste of a home-grown tomato.
Updated on May 15, 2015
Teddy Bears’ Beach Vacation Cupcakes
I actually live in Colorado, but for about two weeks now, it has felt and looked more like Seattle. Rain. Hail. More rain. Flooding basements. Rain. Clouds. It’s not normal for here. We are usually known for having just as many sunny days as beachy places such as Hawaii. We are much more likely to be on the verge of drought and forest fires, not flooding and excessive rain.
Updated on May 12, 2015
Classic Banana Bread
It almost always happens. The last one or two bananas go brown, and no one wants to eat them anymore. Instead of tossing them out, throw them in the freezer until you have at least four of them and then make this classic banana bread.
Updated on May 11, 2015
Mother’s Day: A Few More Thoughts (part 2)
On Friday, I posted some thoughts about the pain and joy of the Mother’s Day holiday, and it got me thinking about motherhood and its daily ups and downs. In that earlier post I referred to the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities. This post kind of continues with that same thread of thought. Disclosure: I have never actually read A Tale of Two Cities, but in checking details to make sure that I didn’t write something dumb, I ended up learning a little more about it, and it just fell into place as the perfect framework for me to write about what was on my mind. This post is lengthy, but if you stick with me, I think you will laugh and maybe cry, and if you have been a mom, I hope you will find something to relate to and some encouragement.
I think many of us are familiar with the opening words of A Tale of Two Cities (“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”) even if we have not read the book. Charles Dickens is writing about the time leading up to and after the French Revolution, but as I looked at the rest of the novel’s opening, it struck me that he has given a perfect description for motherhood too, at least as I have experienced it. The next words in the opening are “…it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…”
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