It’s the happiest place on earth! Happiest place…. Happiest…. I need to find my happy place. Disney is an anomaly to me. People go, they spend a ton of money, they sometimes do it every year and some go (gasp!) more than once a year!!! I cannot fathom the motivation behind that, but I digress….
Category: The Good Life
Chili, lime, cilantro cocktail
This cocktail was inspired by a visit to the Sriracha factory in Irwindale, Ca. My family and I toured the site and were able to see the entire process front the arrival of the chilis to the tufted t tt <a href="http://tedtterttffgddrtr trftgrryftdtzdtdegtlll”>zScott robot who packed the pallets! SO cool. You will need the following:…
A floral centerpiece in under ten minutes
We all want to dress things up sometimes… hell, sometimes we just need to treat ourselves to flowers! It’s my desire to offer some quick, easy and affordable solutions. Everyone deserves a little elegance in their lives and they shouldn’t have to have deep pockets to attain it. In this video, I will show you…
To Tutorial or Not to Tutorial
I thought it would be fun to make some tutorials. It would be a way to share some of the silly little lifestyle tricks and ideas that I’ve got stored in my brain. I don’t know why I’m doing it. If there’s got to be a reason, it’s to have some fun. To share what…
A Mother and Her Pesky Career
There have been some circumstances recently that have reminded me about some ambitions that I have sort of, let go by the way side. I really like my job and the company I work for affords me some very nice flexibility when it comes to time off for both sickness and fun. Any working parent…
Living Like Savages… Sorta
Just a quick thought on camping… My husband, my children and I are going camping tomorrow. Just a quick two nighter up the coast a bit. I have prepared our meals and carefully vacuum sealed them to keep the goods in and the bads out. I have packed enough clothes to survive weather in either…
The Temple of Grace
My main reason for attending the Burning Man festivities for the first time (and what I thought would be my only time) was not because I wanted to party, or because I wanted an ethereal experience on the playa. It was because my best friend was on her death bed and made me promise. I…
Burning Man and Me… How to feel like a beautiful badass
Burning Man is meant for a badass. You’ve got to be ready. By ready, I mean you must come adequately prepared and above all else, you must have the right mind set. For starters, the place is huge. Not like Outside Lands huge, I mean like Mad Max metropolis in the freaking desert huge! “The…
Radical Self Reliance
We are heading to Burning Man in just a few days… Excited doesn’t even come close to describing how I feel. Couple that with anxiety and fear at not having what I need… forgetting some major essential (Which, I undoubtedly will) thusly ruining everything, and you might have a small clue. All of my friends…
The Bipolar Biological
When I was just a tiny baby my mom took me, and whatever she could quickly throw in a bag and left my biological father. She was hurriedly leaving an intensely abusive relationship which included drug and alcohol abuse (from both of them), emotional abuse and severely violent physical abuse brought on, unbeknownst to her,…
The Death of Friends and Friendships
By the time we are in our late thirties we have all suffered some sort of loss in friendship. We may have had to live through the physical passing of a friend, or we may have lost the friendship connection through time and distance, or maybe we lost a friend through conflict. I have experienced…
Mom Solo and the Crumb Snatchers
Having a husband who travels for a living is not as amazing (ahem) as you might think. My husband plays keyboards for the band Smash Mouth. He’s been with them since they began touring in 1997. We’ve always done this. It’s not new, I’m not caught off guard and it’s always a challenge. Way back…
The Swearing Mom's Guide To Life 