After waiting only a few days, I feel like a kid at Christmas!  The delivery of my first day of the Fresh Diet is due to arrive between 7 PM and 6 AM, and just like the girls on Christmas Eve, I am peeking out the window, checking the doorstep, looking for any signs that…

So, Melting Mama http://www.meltingmama.net/ reviewed The Fresh Diet a little while ago, and she made the whole thing sound incredible.  The fresh foods, delivered to your doorstep, portion controlled meals are a Godsend to someone like me, who tends to eat too large portions of all the wrong foods all the time.  Oh, and I hate…

Oceans.  Cold, dark, menacing beasts; powerful and unforgiving; unpredictable and dangerous.  In one sentence, I summed up how I feel personally about the ocean.  At the same time, the mystery of it is enticing, drawing me in to any type of program that brings me some new knowledge of the creatures that live in the…

Because we are the most disorganized people in the known world, a blizzard that had been threatened for weeks made it virtually impossible for us to host Eilis’ 9th birthday party at our house as planned.  So just days before the party, Jim came up with the idea to head to CoCo Key Water Resort…

I want to start this blog by telling you my goal. In honor of my sister Bean, I am collecting books – new and gently used – that will be donated to various children’s charities in Bean’s memory. I would absolutely LOVE to have 100 books to donate by the end of March. That means…

Let’s start by saying I did not purchase the Hot Pockets.  And were it not for Jim Gaffigan and his comedy routine, I doubt Jim would have purchased Hot Pockets.  But there they were.  And here I was.  Friday night, no offer of take away pizza from the husband, and facing a cupboard with the…

  There is nothing more convenient on Valentine’s Day than one stop shopping – and if it’s one stop shopping that causes your Valentine to swoon, even better (honey, are you paying attention?).  Your wife is over the uncomfortable lingerie you have purchased every year since the dawn of time, and your husband does not…