Food

I love that Eddie always wants to “help mama cook.” Whether I’m scrambling eggs, stirring tomato sauce, frosting a cake, or throwing chicken breasts into the slow cooker, I always…

In the back of my planner I keep a running list of our favorite dinners. The list includes baked chicken parmesan meatballs, minstrone soup, a sesame salmon soba salad, and…

Essie nail polish in Ballet Slippers. I’ve told you before about my commitment to getting my nails done. I’ve had a gel manicure nonstop for about five years, and I…

As I type, we are starting our sixth week of quarantine. I’ve been through every emotion there is- fear, hopelessness, audacity, calm, rage- you name it, and my feelings are…

As I write this, I am one month from my due date. Also as I write this, infertility struggles that very close friends of mine have gone through or are…

A few weeks ago, I invited some girlfriends to come over for Saturday breakfast. I’ve been so wrapped up lately in work, and traveling for work, and playing with Baby…

I have a lot of history with coffee cake. Growing up, my mom and her girlfriends would sit around the dining room table to gossip and eat an Entenmann’s coffee…

For 6.5 years, I have been writing a monthly restaurant review. It’s for a weekly local newspaper called Lansing City Pulse, and the feature is called “He Ate/She Ate.” Every…

Baby Eddie is a mover and a shaker. Never content to sit still, he loves to crawl and roll around, throwing socks and empty water bottles from one end of…