Parenting
Turn the chore of cleaning into a fun game with three great tips from Family Fun magazine. It usually starts bothering me around dinnertime. The mess of toys that my children have slowly strewn about our house throughout the day reaches its peak in the evening. If you walked into my otherwise fairly neat house [...]
Home & Lifestyle
Who doesn’t love receiving a handmade card? But then again, who really has hours to make them? Here are five tips for making cards in a flash. Once I started making handmade cards, it became an addiction. I was so dedicated to sending handmade cards that when I ran out, I would put off sending [...]
Food
Blogger Michelle Ryan offers up the five simplest pleasures found in Saveur magazine’s Saveur 100. If you’re thinking Saveur magazine’s annual all-encompassing best-of list of 100 trends, tips, techniques and other foodie faves is packed with impossible ingredients and exotic locales, you’re right. But there are some simple (or simpler) pleasures that made the rundown [...]
Fitness & Health
Could storing and reheating leftovers be detrimental to your health? Shape magazine gives the scoop. My Great Aunt Grace whips up a mean homemade banana pudding. When we get together for a family meal, whether on a special occasion or a simple Sunday afternoon, I’m not sure she’d be allowed in the door without the [...]
Home & Lifestyle
The March issue of Dog Fancy magazine offers homemade remedies to cut through the toughest messes your canine compadre can create. I hate to admit this publicly, but we’ve scrubbed puke out of the carpet three times this week. Nope, we don’t even have kids. But with three dogs and two cats in the house, [...]