I’m sure thoughts of Christmas have been floating around in many of our heads for the past few weeks, if not months. Now we are officially in the home stretch though. Christmas is just around the corner.
We are also in the home stretch of 2008 and the End 08 Great Challenge. So Toni, Joy and [...]
With just 2 months left in 2008, our End 08 Great Challenge should have us all prepared to start 09 Feeling Fine. So far we have challenged everyone (including ourselves) to Conquer the Clutter, spend some extra Face Time with the Kids, Fix Our Finances, and Fall Into Cooking.
The End 08 Great challenge this [...]
We are halfway through the End 08 Great challenge. Only 2 months left until 2009! So far we have challenged everyone (including ourselves) to Conquer the Clutter, spend some extra Face Time with the Kids, and Fix Our Finances.
The focus of the October challenge is Fall Into Cooking. We will be focusing on ways [...]
We are halfway through the End 08 Great challenge. Only 3 months left until 2009! So far we have challenged everyone (including ourselves) to Conquer the Clutter, spend some extra Face Time with the Kids, and Fix Our Finances.
The focus of the October challenge is Fall Into Cooking. We will be focusing on ways [...]
Prior to last May when Kate, Toni, and I blogged in our 3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days series, there wasn’t a great deal of variety in my family’s meals from week to week. I probably had a grand total of five regular meals that I would occasionally cook — meatloaf, spaghetti, chicken and mashed [...]
We spent July “Conquering The Clutter.” In August, we focused on getting some extra “Face Time With The Kids.” (If you’re new to Happy To Be At Home, you can click here to find out what our six-month “End 08 Great Challenge” is all about.)
But this month, we are challenging all of us to get [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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