I have read Hi Sugarplum’s blog for years but she recently wrote about how she did two entire travel posts shooting pictures only on her iPhone and linked to some tutorials from Apple. I’ve mostly been shooting on my iPhone for my posts so I watched, wanting to see if there were ways I could…
We have all been fighting colds and coughs in this house for the last week. Even though it was 84 degrees IN our house yesterday, I still had the urge to make my mom’s chicken soup to help kick these colds to the curb. There is always a big pot of this soup on the…
How I survived Disneyland with an infant and 3 year old Growing up, my Dad took us to Disney World in Florida every other year. They are some of my most cherished childhood memories and I’ve always wanted that for my children too. We’ve been a couple times since Big Nugget was born, usually in…
A preschooler’s right of passage. Sure I’ve heard of Hand Foot Mouth Disease but naively, I didn’t think any of us would get it. No one at school had it. Didn’t hear of anyone at our dance studio with it either. So when our oldest had a fever one Sunday morning, I didn’t even think…
I’m a child of the 80’s and I used to love to watch Johnny Carson, especially on the nights when Joan Embry from the San Diego Zoo would come on (this is a great montage). It always seemed like a magical place to me. Once I moved to San Diego and got a chance to…
When we moved into this house two years ago, we made a list of projects that we wanted to tackle that were necessary – flooring, window replacement, bringing the stair rail up to code, etc, etc. The dining room was nowhere on that list. At least until our master bathroom developed a hidden slow leak…