Multitasking Has Its Limits

I was going to the bathroom, holding a fussy baby (you know you’ve been there), when my five year old barged in. “Your arms aren’t busy now. Now can you fix my Darth Vader?” Sometimes all you can do is stare. And then laugh. But I refuse to hot...

Check-out Lane Trivia Game

To keep the kids busy in the Walmart checkout lane tonight, I began asking them trivia questions. (And rewarding them with Tic Tacs.) I tried to make the questions age appropriate and engaging. Educational and interesting. To Olivia, I asked mostly geography...

Copy-Cat Pamela’s Gluten Free Flour Mix

Honestly, I haven’t done the math to see how much cheaper this is than Pamela’s.  I buy my flours in bulk on Amazon.com using Subscribe & Save to get even better deals.  Surely it has to be cheaper. Better yet, it doesn’t have any baking...

My Children Can’t Hear Me

It’s been a day.  A full day of expressing frustration to my children over the fact that they Do.Not.Hear.My.Voice anymore. Your children do that, too, right?! So it had been a day like that.  Full of repeating myself a minimum of three times, and usually...