by Allison 2 • 6 • 2017

Recipe: Home Made Chocolate-Covered English Toffee

Chocolate-Covered English Toffee Recipe English toffee is easily one of my favorite homemade candies, so it makes sense to me to pour chocolate on top. Actually, it always makes sense to me to add chocolate, to everything, all the time. But especially to salty, buttery, caramel-flavored homemade toffee. Is there a better combination of sweet flavors on the planet? I think not. Normally I just make plain English toffee, but I made a batch of chocolate-covered English toffee recently –…
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by Allison 1 • 27 • 2017

How To Do A Baked Potato Bar For Groups

Baked Potato Bar: how to do your own. A baked potato bar is one of the easiest buffet dinners on the planet, but for some reason I don’t make it very often. Which is crazy-pants bananas, and I’m planning to remedy that in the immediate future. So, I made a baked potato bar last night for a high school swim team dinner and not only was a huge success, (rave reviews! two thumbs up by every teenager in the house!)…
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by Allison 1 • 18 • 2017

This Turkish Soap Opera Is The Gift We All Need

Turkish Soap Opera – The Gift We All Need We have so much to talk about but before we even get started, has it ever occurred to you to watch a nighttime soap opera in a different language? I mean, I watch BBC shows all the time, so I kind of get it* (*not really) but I don’t know how it has never occurred to me to watch another country’s subtitled version of say, Grey’s Anatomy. I watched season 1…
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by Allison 1 • 13 • 2017

2017 New Year + New Goals + New Journal

New Goals Guys. Real talk. How are you feeling about 2017? I’ll be honest, I’m discouraged. I’m looking for the light, and looking for it, and squinting my eyes really tiny up at the sky searching for it, and getting out my binoculars, and my magnifying glass, and welp. I’m having a hard time finding it just now. But the good news is this: I’m pretty sure it all works out in the end. In fact, I feel that to…
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by Allison 12 • 21 • 2016

Holiday Shows For Every Age On Netflix 2016

Holiday Shows For Every Age On Netflix 2016 (right now!) I don’t know about you, but I spend a significant amount of every Christmas break snuggled up with my family in front of movies and shows I don’t normally have time to watch. It’s my idea of a very good time. We light a fire and keep it stoked for better part of our holiday break and take turns choosing shows to watch on Netflix while we do massive puzzles,…
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by Allison 12 • 20 • 2016

Simple Grocery Shopping Online + Parking Lot Pickup

Grocery shopping online – why it’s my newest obsession. Many grocery stores now offer online grocery shopping as a service, and Walmart is one of them. It has quickly become one of my favorite things to come out of the internet age. Here’s how it works: 1. Go to Walmart.com/grocery online to see if there’s a Walmart near you offering grocery shopping online. If your Walmart does grocery shopping online, hooray for you. I’m being serious. 2. Create an account….
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by Allison 12 • 2 • 2016

How I Use And Love Google Home

Google Home: how I use it, what I love about it, and why I’m completely obsessed. Have you heard of Google Home? It’s okay if you haven’t, because it gives me a chance to talk about my obsession with it, and to share how I use it all day, every day. We’ve become inseparable, my Google Home and I. So, let’s discuss. What is Google Home? Well, it’s a smart speaker a with a built in assistant for your home….
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by Kimberly 11 • 25 • 2016

Beaded Candy Cane Ornaments

The holidays are the perfect time to round up the kids for some fun arts and crafts. Some darling beaded candy cane ornaments are just the thing. My mother had one on our tree for ages, and it was one of my very favorites. She passed it along to me when I married, and now it hangs on my tree. I like this shiny little ornament so much that I made more of them with my boys when they were small. Now, we have over…
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by Allison 11 • 21 • 2016

Netflix Gilmore Girls Premiere – Behind The Scenes!

Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life premiers on Netflix on November 25th, 2016, but my daughter Sofie and I saw the first episode, ‘Winter’ at the red carpet premiere in Los Angeles last week. I’m here to tell you what to be excited about in the first episode, (don’t worry, no spoilers!) and plenty of insider details for all you diehard Gilmore Girls lovers. And also to report I’ve never fan-girled so hard in my life. By the way,…
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