Chicken Soup for the Soul

Monday. Amiright? In all fairness, today wasn't a particularly bad day for me.  I was busy and it doesn't seem like I've gotten anything done because I'm pretty sure everyone in my house just thinks food magically appears in our fridge and pantry...but, you know. Dinner was rough tonight.  I made chicken noodle soup, honestly,…

Real Mac and Cheese

I know I said I'd be better about posting and then immediately skipped a day, but in my defense, we didn't eat dinner last night.  We went out to a Monarch release in the morning and got sun burns and heat strokes (I'm kidding about the heat strokes, but seriously, I know it's Texas, but…

I’m a Bad Blogger…

So when I went to post the pictures of tonight's dinner, I found out that I forgot to post dinner for the last two nights! Oops........... Fortunately, I was on top of things enough to take the pictures, I just didn't post them.  So...Here's what we had for dinner this week.  Roasted potatoes with a…

Fudgey Peanut-butter No-Bakes

My friend and I are going to be spending the day in the Fort Worth Botanic gardens today and as a surprise, I made something that we used to love when we were little: Fudgey Peanut-butter No-Bakes! These are literally the easiest cookies...candies?  Treats to make.  And they are so. good. I'm so excited to share…

I, thankfully, have an amazing husband and got to go to sleep right after dinner last night while he took care of homework and baths and everything all on his own.  I slept almost twelve hours and woke up feeling a ton better.  Today hasn't been the best for me, but I was able to…

Blood Sausage

I had grand plans for dinner tonight.  I was so excited to try a new recipe that looks so good. And then it hit.  Right around 3:00.  Intense pain, nausea, vertigo, cold sweats, and fatigue.  Yeah, I'm sure you know what it is.  It actually started two days ago while I was in San Antonio, because why not…

Emotional Patty Melt

We took an impromptu trip to San Antonio yesterday to visit my husbands 93 year old grandmother.  We try to make the five hour drive don there at least once a month, but given our trip this summer we hadn't been since May and my husband hadn't been since her birthday in July.  It was…

It’s Friday, We’re Having Pizza

It's been the worst week, but I had an amazing day with an amazing friend.  We made art painting pottery and ate lunch at an incredible tiny little hole in the wall, and above all, we got to be people with one another again.  We've been friends since we were little and we both became mothers early in life.  When…

Ranch Pork Chops and Homework

Homework.  Am I right?  Oooooooooooooh, homework. On the menu tonight is red wine.  Oh, and meat and potatoes.  But mostly wine...because homework.  My eight year old has suddenly decided that he doesn't know how to read, can't understand simple instructions, and for some reason can recite multiplication tables up to 10 but when it comes…

New Project: Dinner

I've been wanting to start this for a while now, but have just been putting it off and making excuses, and...well, you get it.  First it was postponing until I had ALL THE THINGS to make these posts perfectly polished and picturesque.  Then it was stalling with excuses like, "I don't want to leave my lights…