Going places can be stressful to little ones, as anybody who has traveled with a little one can attest. Even going somewhere the wee one wants to be can be stressful–to the wee one and to everybody within earshot and kicking-the-back-of-the-seat-shot. Recently, someone of my…

I’ve said before on this blog that I taught myself to cook, using mostly recipes in ads and on the backs of ingredients’ boxes and bottles. This one was in an ad for RealLemon lemon juice concentrate. I still use it. LEMON TERIYAKI CHICKEN IN…

For the Deal Me In story reading challenge, we choose what connection we want between playing cards and stories, and draw random cards to choose stories to read. For me, the clubs mean Chekhov. Chekhov must have either loved cats or hated cats; this is not…