Celebrating the Birth of a Nation… with a bit of paint and lots of fun!

Thanksgiving wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without sweet potatoes, but you won’t find marshmallows sprinkled on top of the sweet potatoes at our table. Our family prefers a recipe with a history: one that’s been served for years at our family gatherings and that was served originally in the Kings Arms Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, VA, one…
The boys and I spent the afternoon at a popular kids’ locale. You know, the one with the giant singing rat, the second rate pizza, and the large assortment of video games that eat tokens like a mouse eats cheese. Yup, you got it. That’s the one! Chuck E. Cheese’s would normally be the last…
The boys would indeed call themselves lucky today! It all started with finding this little plant on the shelf at Trader Joe’s: It’s an Irish Shamrock. I was surprised to see it had little white bell-shaped flowers and leaves that didn’t quite look like the clover growing rampant in our yard. I always thought shamrocks…
He left our home almost two years ago, expecting to be gone only a few months. He’s traveled from coast to coast: from Virginia to New Jersey to Washington to Colorado to California to Florida to Illinois to North Carolina back to Florida and on home to Virginia! He’s visited family and friends, watched ball…
Years ago my Mom presented me with a red spiral bound notebook. On the front, she had written From Mom’s Recipes – Family Favorites Plus Some: Book 1. The notebook was nothing special, just one of my old high-school notebooks that only had a few pages out of it, but the contents were priceless: page…
Tuesday morning, math time. The phone rings. I ignore it. It rings again, and again, and again. I give in, and run to answer it, leaving the boys working on multi-digit multiplication and addition with carrying. It’s my mom. “Your father can’t go. His doctors have said no traveling.” My parents had been planning…