Category: Holidays
Baking a doggie birthday cake
This is completely random and hilarious, but I have been getting requests for the recipe I used to make Annabelle‘s half-birthday cake a couple of weeks ago. Truth: It looked so good that I kind of wanted to try it. I modified this peanut… Continue Reading “Baking a doggie birthday cake”
Why half-birthdays are more fun than REAL birthdays
A kid’s birthday without any gifts to buy, invitations to create and mail, huge party to plan or guest list to wrangle? Yes, please! They’re called ‘half birthdays’ and they’re soooo much simpler than real birthdays. I’m quite a fan. Our son’s real birthday… Continue Reading “Why half-birthdays are more fun than REAL birthdays”
For those of us who don’t love Christmas
Admitting you don’t love Christmas is sometimes like saying you hate puppies — especially the really fluffy ones — or that you think Caillou is just misunderstood. (Wrong and wrong.) But for some of us, Christmas is NOT the most magical time of the… Continue Reading “For those of us who don’t love Christmas”
The (4th annual) corporate Christmas party for a work-at-home freelance journalist
Sitting in my little basement office, eating appetizers and playing games with myself … while all dressed up? Yeah, that’s something I’ve been doing for FOUR YEARS NOW. (See the very first one, the second one, and last year’s party.) Last year’s party was… Continue Reading “The (4th annual) corporate Christmas party for a work-at-home freelance journalist”
Sharing the local love
I am NOT a fan of Black Friday because crowds = awful. Seriously. That’s why I do most of my Christmas shopping back in October and avoid malls pretty much year-round. (I had to run out yesterday for storage bins and I reeeeeally didn’t… Continue Reading “Sharing the local love”
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