This post has been sponsored by K'NEX. I received this product for purposes of review; however, all opinions here are my own. Even the name of this one sounds fierce, doesn't it? And dinosaurs are so in this year, just in time for the holidays. 🙂 Check out the new Beasts Alive X-Flame building kit …
I just filled up my tank for under $20! How are gas prices by you today?
Totally Inauthentic Challah: For lazy people like us (who enjoy the prettier things in life nonetheless)! Welcome to the November 15, 2015 edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients: Totally Inauthentic Challah edition. Let me just preface this by saying: I have enjoyed some wonderful challot in …
ComEd is now in the process of getting the downed tree off the power line, so they killed power to our neighborhood again. I'm coming to you from exciting battery backup at the moment, but may disappear for a while again soon... Hey, progress: ComEd just came by with a van and a truck and …
Welcome to the November 8, 2015 edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients: Potatoes edition. Bagged potatoes have been super cheap this week all over town (and are always an affordable choice, really!), making for a plethora of affordable side dish options. So, here's an easy foil …
My matchups pal Emma is no longer with us today -- she was over 18 (a kitten the year we got married!). Here's Emma this past April... and early this morning. She had a good life, and I'll miss her. She liked nothing better than to hang out and help me work (and rub her …