Tips and Tutorials

Letters from an Anonymous Friend: How to Play Kilo d’Caca or the Poop Game

7 June 2011

Recently, I learned the Poop Game. That’s right, the Poop Game. In French it’s called Kilo d’Caca, or Kilo of Crap. It’s the funniest, most childish games you’ll ever play as an adult. Grab a deck of cards and I’ll explain it. Goal of the game: To collect an entire set of 4. However many [...]

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Mrs Baird’s Bread has to be Good Just for the Fact that They Don’t have a Period After Mrs Like Dr Pepper

9 December 2010

Whenever I visited my great-grandmother when I was a little girl she’d always take me and my older sister to our local Mrs Baird’s outlet for some special treats of honey buns, moonpies, and fried pies while she shopped for bread. In the morning she’d always cook us a special breakfast of sunnyside up fried [...]

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Gratitude Tree for Thanksgiving and the Holidays

23 November 2010

Recently at a women’s church group (Relief Society) we discusses gratitude and counting our blessings. We were then given instructions on how to make a gratitude tree to take home and teach to our families and selves on the importance of being thankful and counting our blessings. Now gratitude is not something that has always [...]

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Cooking with Chef Chamberlain and the Texas Beef Council

23 September 2010

Last week Holly from June Cleaver Nirvana and BurbMom invited me and several other bloggers to attend a cooking demonstration at the Viking Cooking School and sponsored by the Texas Beef Council. Since I love Texas and cooking so much, all Holly needed to say was Texas and food and I was in! There we [...]

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Road Trip Tips

19 May 2010

The long awaited post is finally here. Memorial Day weekend is fast approaching and with that means summer road trips and camping–or maybe it means you want to take a road trip or go camping, but something is keeping you back. Namely your kids. Or rather, namely your chief fear of taking children along for [...]

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