Abs comes home from church each Sunday and Wednesday with at least two sheets of art work that she made in bible class.  We’ve run out of magnets and fridge space. I think I’d like to “display” her paintings on her color block wall, but I’m not sure how to do that.  Any ideas?  What do you do with your kids’ art?

After trying some of my friend’s Cinnamon Bread that was so yummy, I asked for the recipe.  She told me there was a starter and she’d bring it over with the instructions.  Anyway, the basic recipe involves eggs, oil, milk, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla pudding, etc.  It’s called friendship bread because you’re supposed to give away the starter to 3 friends and continue baking a starter that you keep every 10 days. Thinking that the bread [...]

I love these soaps from Bath and Body Works.  Not only do they smell great, but they’re soft on your hands, and it’s so much easier for Abs to wash her hands with the “bubble soap.” I had even put them on my wish list for Christmas this year because we just ran out of the bottles in our kitchen and guest bathroom.  Then, I discovered there might be a way to make the foaming [...]

We had two Halloween parties: one the night before and one on Halloween.  We took Abs to the first one but decided to let her stay the night with GramB and PapaBon for the second one.  I forgot to take many pictures of the first one. I’ve got a Bun in the Oven, and J’s the Bun Maker You can click on the pictures to see the details of my costume.  It was simple to [...]

Last year, we actually got a lot of snow, considering we live in the South, but so far, we haven’t gotten any this winter.  But last winter, I got to make some Snow Ice Cream.  I know some of you are lucky enough to be getting snow this season,so I thought I’d share the recipe with those of you who have/will be getting snow. Ingredients: 8 cups of fresh, fluffy snow.  The FLUFFY part is [...]