As everyone is well aware, this year has been a hum dilly. Due to this fact, my blogging has been sporadic at best. But, I'm going to try...

This past weekend Bobby, Emily, her boyfriend James, and I took a road trip. I desperately needed tennis shoes, but I also wanted to do s...

If I had constructed an advertisement for the New Year, it might have read... Wanted: The perfect year. What would my perfect year look l...

Hey all. It's been a while since I last posted. With my library shut down for so long, I was unable to get any new books. When they did o...

As everyone everywhere is aware, recent global events have thrown a monkey wrench into the works so to speak. The fear of the unknown and...

This past week Emily put on her creative hat and made yet another beautiful birthday card for a friend. I entered the Susanna Leonard Hil...

This past week I found a wonderful side dish recipe for potato pancakes that took me back to my childhood. I remember my mom using left o...

This past weekend Emily went on a youth group trip with her bestie, Katie. To you that might seem ordinary, but for Bobby and I it was th...

Christmas passed with a flurry and flutter of friends, family, and gift exchanges, but now... We've begun a new year. We've entered a new...

It's been a good year full of ordinary and extraordinary happenings. And as this year comes to a close, I've been making cookies. Lots an...

This past week was our monthly Cook Book Club meeting. Our theme was Thanksgiving Feast, and apparently green bean casserole was on many ...

This past week the Ohio weather turned from mild to cold practically over night and dare I say it, I saw snow. Granted the cold arrived ...

This past week was full of some not so fun stuff like my trip to the dentist and Emily's cold, but it was full of some fun stuff as well....

Last week I failed to read a book and post. It was a hectic, but good, week which started off with Cook Book Club. Our theme for Cook Bo...

Autumn usually glides in like golden leaf floating from the sky. But this year, Autumn's arrival has been more like a choppy helicopter r...

This past week saw me scurrying to Library Board of Trustee meetings, Levy Committee meetings, a 50th wedding anniversary, and a family r...

This past weekend I attended my region's yearly SCBWI Ohio North Conference. I look forward to attending this conference each year becaus...

Hey everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the long Labor Day weekend. We started the weekend off with another taco night. Only one of Emily's ...

Wow. Summer flew by and the first part of August got away from me. I know it got away from me because I missed two Monday blogs. In my de...

Nothing out of the ordinary happened this week, just my weekly baking for Farmers' Market, so I am getting right to the review portion of...