Welcome to week 23 of our ongoing series about refined sugar & me in 2017. This week I am holding steady at a total of 16 pounds down from when I first started avoiding most added sugars and processed foods at the end of December 2016 -- it bopped around a bit with all of the Memorial Day/last …
Easy Tortellini Soup with Chicken is a hearty, filling weeknight dinner recipe that serves eight! Try it the next time you have some leftover chicken to use up. Maybe, just maybe, I had to scratch up a big batch of Tortellini Soup with Chicken in order to show off the cool dishes I picked up …
In looking back over my photos from the last week, I noticed that the overarching themes of our summer break here so far are clearly: Food, animals, and video games (oh my!). I guess we could do worse, right? Let's start with the critters... So the other day the chickens were yelling their fool heads off …
Jodi Picoult's credentials as a best-selling novelist are well deserved, so I'm not sure how I missed seeing small great things when it first came out last fall. (Probably because I was knee-deep in Black Friday madness when we were all deal blogging -- But that's the beauty of the library: There's always something new to read in any …
You may have noticed something different about Mashup Mom today, and your eyes do not deceive you... It just so happens to be my 20th wedding anniversary (!), so we're celebrating today with a new look for the blog that better reflects its new focus and purpose. I'm so excited about it, and I hope …
Sorry for the blurry photo -- but: Moving insects through glass in a dark garage! In this snapshot from MashupDad's observation hive, though, you can see how the other honeybees naturally start to circle around and attend the queen bee, and can also see how much larger she is than the others. Read on, because he …