I hope everyone enjoyed Super Bowl Sunday and your lower fat/calorie foods including popcorn! I know we did at our house. And how fun was this – when they presented some of our service men who have been honored with the Medal of Honor before the opening coin flip –…
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Super Bowl – A Fun Healthy Twist!
Wow!!! can you believe that we are already at the end of January and getting ready to jump into February! This weekend will be the 52nd Super Bowl in Minneapolis. Last year I wrote about hosting a Super Bowl party and how easy hosting a Super Bowl party is. The…
A Year in Review Part 3
Happy mid-January 2018 to everyone! On Monday we remembered and honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the peace and equality he stood for and gave his life for. Meanwhile the eastern half of the US is getting pounded with snow, ice and incredible weather. To my friends and family…
A Year in Review Part 2!
Happy second week of 2018. Other than those in the freezing blizzardy weather on the east coast and now the mud slides in Southern California, I hope everyone has had a wonderful start to the new year. Last week I provided a recap of some of the blogs of last…
A Year in Review Part 1!
Happy New Year to all! I hope that everyone had a fun and safe holiday season, including New Year’s Eve. Before we launch, really launch, into 2018, I thought I would take this week and next, and look back some of the topics covered this last year. Super Bowl Party!…
Clean Up and Clean Out!
Happy (belated) Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to everyone! I spent the first 2 weeks of November helping my daughter with her 2 little ones while her husband was away on a mission trip in Nepal. Being with my grand-babies is really special since they are in Austin and I am…
A Tribute – Fire Trucks and A Fireman!
This blog is dedicated to my cousin’s son Nate, who passed away on October 28 at the young age of 29. Nate grew up in Texas, just outside of Houston, but before his family relocated to Texas he was a Southern California boy. For a short time we did not…
Main Dish – Keeping It Simple!
Happy Thursday to everyone – the last Thursday in October. Staying with the theme of last week – Keeping It Simple, today I want to talk about the main dish. Here are a few ideas on keeping a main dish simple and not too involved when you have family and/or…
Hors d’oeuvres – Keeping It Simple!
I missed everyone last week as I was navigating the Southern California freeways and thru the Orange County fire and smoke, to visit my Dad in the hospital. And wow – what about all the devastation that has happened in Northern California. Hurricanes and floods on one side of the…
It’s NOT a Party Anymore!
Today I am going to go in a totally different direction. I cannot write about party planning when we have just witnessed the worst massacre in our country’s history. And to me what makes it even worse, is that it was one of us – an American. One of our…