Raising Camelot

Thirty Days of Thankfulness {FREE PRINTABLE}

in Believe, Confidential, Create on 11/01/17

To me, the month of November parks a very welcome season of gratitude somewhere between the ritualized gluttony of Halloween and the unbridled avarice of Christmas. (Not that I'm advocating for either of those things, but let's face it: the cultural current pulls strongly in their favor.) A ... View Post

Recipe Smash: Fresh Strawberry Pie

in Confidential, Eat on 03/15/17

Confession time: I am a food snob. I don't do whipped topping, baking mix, margarine, cake mixes, canned frosting, canned cream soups, canned dough, canned "parmasean," or the like. I understand that so-called convenience foods are, well, convenient. But that doesn't make them right. It doesn't ... View Post

Forty Things

in Confidential on 02/11/17

This is forty. I had timely plans for sharing my — ahem — profound reflections on forty trips round the sun. And then life, and kids, and school, and the flu, and everything, intervened. And though I'm sure these ramblings are neither profound nor very original, I'd rather a snapshot of my ... View Post

Chicken Broth by the Gallon

in Confidential, Eat on 01/06/17

There's an inch of snow on the ground. The temperature is in the teens. The local schools (excepting our own Lyceum, of course) are cancelled for the day. I have plenty to do — yet all I want is to lay on the couch, light a fire, and read a book until I fall asleep. Seems a perfect day for ... View Post

Urgently a Savior

in Believe, Confidential on 12/22/16

This is one of those days where I blew it. Big time. I woke up with an agenda — never a good sign. "Finish the Christmas cookies and tidy up the kitchen," sounds simple enough, right? Unless you factor in that I'm a perfectionist with three children. To be fair, it wasn't all my fault. The ... View Post