I’ve been getting ready for our annual Valentines day dinner. This is one holiday that is dedicated to The Hunka. I usually get taken pretty good care of the rest of the year so I’ve always made it a point to do something big for Valentine’s just for my babe.
The meal for this annual event [...]

31 years, 1 month and 5 days ago there was a revolution going on in Iran. The people clamored to the streets to protest, chanted to Allah, and wanted their freedom from their dictator and tyranny in their government. My family had been living there for 2 years. In one blink of [...]

Mondays are vocabulary day and begin new thing day here in the Shelly school of hard knocks and today is no different. We started a writing assignment last week following a pattern of three point concepts. Devon has already written two such papers and next to him is the recipe on how to get it [...]

Like Salad? Me too.
Like those premade bags with the mixed lettuce that’s precut into bite sized pieces? Me too.
Do they turn into a jellied mess before you finally eat them all?
Yeah. Mine too.
I hate that. Truly.
(cue super hero music with cheesy man voice)
Announcing the Foodsaver that Saved Shelly’s Lettuce!!!
Too much? Okay, fine…
I love my Foodsaver. [...]

I like sales. I like sales on food. I really like sales on big hunks of meat. In particular I get giddy when I find beef of any kind on sale and I scored big time this week, twice.
Score one, rib eyes at Brookshires for $3.99 a pound. Not crappy, fatty, gristle laden steaks, but [...]

Three nights in a row I’ve sat up waiting for Devon to sieze and three nights he has. This evening I was so tired and almost fell asleep when I heard the familiar repetitive pattern of noise coming from his room and actually got there before it fully kicked in. It was a bad one. [...]