We have never decorated for Christmas this early. Before Thanksgiving – yes, but not ever this far before the last Thursday of November. Last Thursday, I really cleaned the house. I scrubbed and dusted. I swept and mopped. I did laundry and I cleaned out the cabinet under the kitchen sink. Let me assure you […]

Our youngest daughter, Eliza, has a slew of nicknames: Lizzie, E-lizzie, Little Bit, Nugget, Tiny Tot, Eliza J – to name a few. My husband and I have one name for her that we share just between the two of us, P.W. No, it does not stand for Pioneer Woman from the cookbook writing, blogging, […]

I know I am telling my age here, but . . . I grew up under Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” Campaign. It was the First Lady’s aim to teach school age children to say “no” to drugs. At times I felt that it was my parents’ mantra as well. No matter what I asked, […]