The Amazon Kindle has been on my Christmas wish list since the beginning of time. I mean, not really, because Amazon only came out with the device in 2007. Even then, no one could get their hands on a Kindle because they were such a hot seller. Plus? The first generation Amazon Kindle was $399. The Amazon Kindle of yore was groundbreaking, but it didn’t hold a candle to even the smallest tablet now. In fact, the 2013 Amazon Kindle…
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My wassail recipe is one of my favorite holiday beverages. Not only does it taste great, it makes your house smell fabulous as it’s simmering away on the stove. My recipe for cranberry wassail is one that everyone in my family really loves and differs a bit from other wassail recipes. I like to mix a few different kinds of fruit juice – cranberry, apple, orange, lemon and grape. This version is non-alcoholic, but you could certainly add some…
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My eBay Collections were curated as part of my collaboration with eBay. 2013 is drawing to a close (thank the heavens above) but you still have time to get in a few good reads before the new year. In fact, I have it on good authority that you’ve been a good boy / girl this year, and if you ask nicely St. Nick might give you a good book for Christmas (or whichever wonderful holiday you celebrate). See, I have…
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie: are there 4 more beautiful words in the English language? I think not. I’d just be happy with a chocolate pie normally, but when you add peanut butter my brain explodes. In a happy way. In the best way possible. So imagine then, if you will, what happens to my brain when you take chocolate, peanut butter, and add some cream cheese to the mix. WHAT. IS. HAPPENING? My-body-is-no-longer-a-wonderland, is what is happening. A few years…
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A bed used to be a place for sleeping. A boring white + blue striped mattress, covered with a sheet and maybe a nice down comforter (if you were lucky). I never take a good bed for granted but my kids don’t know the difference. I’ve spoiled them by not making them sleep on fold-up camping cots or 3 to a bed, stitch, like I did from time to time growing up in a family with 8 kids. So imagine…
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I love to read. I’m a reader, through and through. Always have been, and hopefully always will be (unless I’m rendered deaf and blind, in which case: take me out coach). Much to my husbands’ dismay I regularly pay overdue fines of $50+ to the local library for ambitious amounts of overdue books, lost books, and books accidentally soaked in Chai (who me? never!) in addition to spending unhealthy amounts of cash at Barnes & Noble for new hardback books…
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Thanksgiving is my NYC marathon. Okay, maybe that’s a stretch. But I do spend an inordinate amount of time getting ready for the big day of gluttonous feasting by testing out recipes well in advance. It’s a sickness that results in the expansion of certain parts of my body and makes me thankful for jeans with a bit of stretch. You feel me, right? Okay. That’s how we come to this Layered White Chocolate Pumpkin Cream Pie. The vision…
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It’s Friday, and we all made it to the end of the week! I shouldn’t say that in a surprised tone of voice, but I just did. Sometimes making it all the way to Friday in one piece is straight up miraculous. This feels like one of those weeks, and I don’t know why. What I do know is that I’m going to see Thor tonight, and you can’t stop me no matter who you are. Name that movie,…
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A couple of months ago I shared with you the finished product of our master bathroom remodel. It was a tremendous, almost year-long project and I’m thrilled it’s finally over. I’m even more thrilled about the fact that right now there’s nowhere in the house I’d rather be than my bathroom. That sounds weird, but it’s true. I never want to leave. I just head into the bathroom and roll the big sliding yellow door closed and pretend the…
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