I’ve discussed that I find it difficult to cook for two and this post serves as another reminder. On the upside, we’re flush with delicious leftovers and a bit for the freezer to eat another day. Instead of beating myself up for cooking embarrassing large meals, I’m gonna start thinking of it as time management. …

Streusel Coffee Cake is a recipe that feeds a crowd.  Around these parts we call these dishes “funeral food.” You know what I mean. Funeral food is food you make to feed a crowd that doesn’t need much tending; it’s the kind of dish you put out on a buffet table and forget about. Comfort …

In the last year, as Sweet E has grown, I keep finding myself telling Husband, “I need to tell Boy/Girl _____.  No one ever told me that and I wished they had.” The best advice no one ever gave me, but would have been gratefully received, was that we’d make it through whatever calamity or …

Carrots got a drankin’ problem, y’all.  I love you, man!  Yes, carrots, we love you, too. I first heard of whiskey-glazed carrots from a friend after they had made them for Thanksgiving.  I was all: I LOVE butter.  I LOVE whiskey.  I LOVE a tender carrot.  Put all these loves together in one lovely dish, …

Gardening and I have always had a love-hate relationship.  I love the idea of fresh produce from my own land, yet my garden hates me. It doesn’t stop me though, no sir.  Every year, like a total amnesiac, I head to the nursery to find the healthiest plants and do stuff like building raised garden …

I originally posted this last Easter, but it’s been such a hit that I thought I’d do a rerun…just like them TV folks! Need more bunny in your life?  Yes, please… ~ A gentle reminder: OMT! uses Amazon referral links. When you do your shopping through the Amazon links on this page, you support the …

Want a fun and information-packed video about 3D printing that you can share with the kiddies?! Here ya go! SCIENCE! Check this one out: Dad uses 3D printer to make his son a prosthesis for about $5! We live in stunning times. Science On!  

Remember this DIY garden post?  Are your kids clamoring to be outside and get dirty?  They are?!  Well, put them to work in their very own garden.  Outside + gardening + kids = the best kind of memories with some SCIENCE! thrown in. ~ A gentle reminder: OMT! uses Amazon referral links. When you do …

The German is an amazing gardener. Me?  Not so much. But….I do know how to do things that make it appear as if I’m a gardener. Gardening for wannabes…that’s me! Take this easy DIY flower bed, as an example. Look at those clean cedar lines.  Look at the barrier between grass and mulched goodness (yes, …

Y’all know I am comfy with rough and rugged little boys and that floofy cutesy little girls kinda scare the begeebers out of me, right?  Well, what you may not know is that I love me some little girl fun-time adorableness that jumps outside the box when tackling tough issues, like whether or not Mommy …