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And the winner of the rhubarb conserve is…Wife and Mommy! (I used random.org to generate a random number between 1 and 11. 8 was the number it gave me and Wife and Mommy left the 8th comment.) Congrats! I will put the conserve in the mail next week. Don’t be disappointed if you didn’t win. I am [...] Raspberry sorbet served in a frozen lemon half My daughter loves to put up a lemonade stand in our front yard. The minute the weather gets above 65 degrees, she drags out the table and chairs and makes a sign. I can’t tell if she is more enamored of the money – and her no-expenses, [...] Saturday May 22 was the day I had waited for since last October: the re-opening of the Oak Park Farmers’ Market! I leapt out of bed at the crack of dawn – okay, I eased out of bed at 8 am, but still, I was excited. As I walked into the church parking lot that [...] Save time or save money? That is typically the trade-off. And typically people will prioritize whatever they have less of. When I was growing up, my mother would pick convenience over price because she was a working mom who never had enough time. So, she would pay a few dollars more for an item rather [...] On several occasions recently, I have complimented a friend’s brightly-colored nails and heard in response: “It’s that new no-chip manicure!” To which my response is: What new no-chip manicure? Why did no one tell me? The truth is, I do not usually get manicures. Pedicures, yes. In the summer, I love a pedicure as much as [...] I have a new post up on the Chicago Moms Blog (and cross-posted to several of its sister sites) on my initial reaction to the President’s nomination of Solicitor General Kagan to replace Justice Stevens on the Supreme Court. I would love to hear what you think! Tweet As an influential mommy blogger (ha!), I was invited to tour the Lake Zurich, IL warehouse of the online grocery delivery service Peapod. (The tour takes place next week; I will report back.) The invitation stated that, among other things, I would learn how Peapod can help save my family money by eliminating impulse buying. [...] I have a new post up on the Chicago Moms Blog today in which I dare to suggest that we might be taking the celebration of Mother’s Day a bit too far. This is going to be controversial! Check it out. Tweet The summer after I graduated from 8th grade, my mother taught at the Breadloaf School of English, which is a summer program for high school English teachers pursuing their Master’s Degrees. The two of us spent seven weeks in the Green Mountains of Vermont and I remember it as a great summer. There were lots [...] |
 
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