Friday Faves

Hello and happy Friday birthday to me! Today is my birthday and my Aquarian stars are shining bright. It's funny how as you get older, the birthdays sneak

Hello again and happy Friday. This week was littered with a little cooking, a lot of appointments, and a whole lot of caring for others who are now on the

Hello friends and happy Friday. We rang in the new year with champagne cheers, oysters with mignonette sauce, king crab legs, steamed shrimp, and baked

Happy Friday and Happy New Year's Eve! We're almost there, the new year, and once again I'm caught wondering where in the world did the past 12 months go?

Hello and ho ho ho. Welcome to the day before Xmas Friday Faves. I believe it's fairly safe to say we all thought this holiday season would look different

Hello and happy Friday! Yes. Yes. YES! We finally have snow!! So now it is really beginning to feel like Christmas. If you grew up with white Christmases,

Yo Yo and Ho Ho! Happy Friday friends. It's crunch time. Did you get your Christmas cards sent? Are your presents all purchased? And what about that gift

Hello friends, and happy Friday. I have one skinny slice of pecan pie leftover from Thanksgiving in the fridge. I swear, it's gotten better and

Hello hello and happy unbutton-your-jeans-post-Thanksgiving-dinner Friday! Today's the best day ever! It's Thanksgiving leftovers day! If you find

Hello and happy Friday! By this time last year, I already had my Christmas tree up. In fact, it was up a full 13 days earlier than today. Last year I had

Hi there and a very happy Friday to you! Cue the mind-blown emoji because we are just 2 weeks out from Thanksgiving. I know, I know! How can it even

Hello hello, and happy Friday! Could it have been the absolutely frigging-delicious homemade chile verde burritos we made for dinner? No way. No heartburn

Hello, and happy hallowed Friday! Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and finally, New Years! It's that time of year when the pressure is on to do all the

Hello hello, and happy Friday Faves. Finally! I'm feeling the itch to entertain again. Because I wasn't sure I ever would. I've been so comfortably

Hello and happy Friday! Maintaining routines can be a slippery slope. There are times when routine is familiar and comforting, and the path to lifelong

Hey hey and happy Friday! While I was planning my grocery list for making my favorite first-of-fall soup, millions were losing their minds that Facebook

Fantastic Friday to you! It was my mom‘s birthday two days ago. Happy birthday Miss P! To celebrate, we went to lunch at her favorite Mexican restaurant

Hello, and happy Friday. Reading e-newsletters in my inbox usually gives me a jolt of inspiration. One I particularly like is written by Kaki, a

Hey hey, and happy Friday! I'm guessing I'm not the only one LOVING all the sweet flavors of tomato season. The sad part is, it will quickly be coming to

Hello, hello, and welcome to another Friday Faves. I was flipping through the recent issue of Real Simple magazine and came across a Q&A for readers

Hi there, and happy long weekend Friday! It's Labor Day weekend—hoo-fricking-yay!—and I'm looking forward to less labor and more seizing of the day. And

Hello hello and happy Friday. I had to go cold turkey. I had to cut myself off. I had to relocate to concentrate. Vacation is over, it's time to get back

Hello hello and happy Friday. Well, we are back to it. Back to figuring out what's for dinner and who has to be where at what time as we slip out of that

Hey, hey, hey and happpppy Friday! This is the last weekend before my little baby’s final first day of school. She’s a high school senior. How? How? How?

Ah! Happy Friday once again! First off, my husband cooks the best ribeyes. End of story. Typing my greeting of "Happy Friday" in these posts each week

Hey, hey! Yay, it's Friday! Tis the season for reunions! Last weekend our family had its first official family reunion and I’m happy to say it was a

Hello, hellllooooooo, and happy Friday! The family has arrived, the venue is secured, the cooking has begun (I've made enough of our favorite taco meat to

Hello! And happiest of Fridays. July is vacation month and we just returned from a week in Oregon and let me say, it was awesome getting away and

Hello and happy Friday! This week we are in Oregon on a college tour for my AliSmudge—and eating ice cream at the holy grail of ice cream, Tillamook

Oh well hello there! Happy Friday! This past week, all of the sudden, my garden grew by leaps and bounds. The tomatoes are blossoming to make baby maters,

Hey hey and happy Friday. I have to admit, I've thrived in isolation over this past year. I've come to discover I'm an extroverted introvert. I think I