Category: Family

  • My Weekend in Bullets

    Karl’s IBM Rep gave us two tickets to Friday night’s SEC Tournament games. We decided to make the trip to Atlanta a mini-vacation for all of us. Even though they knew Bama wouldn’t be likely to win, Karl and Benjamin were so excited about getting to see our team play in the SEC Tournament! Give…

  • The Oscars

    I forced the kids to watch a little of The Oscars with me tonight. I love a good movie and I enjoy seeing all that glamour. It just so happened that the first part we saw was the Oscar going to Ratatouille for best something animated. Then, we got to see Amy Adams perform “The…

  • Martha Stewart to the Rescue

    If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, then you’ll remember that two of my four children have food allergies. Ben is allergic to eggs, nuts, dairy products, and soy. Noah is allergic to eggs, nuts, and some fish. Many foods are off-limits to them. It’s difficult finding recipes for the yummies that do…

  • Questions and Confessions

    First question: What do you do for a those nagging symptoms? Please share your favorite remedies for runny nose, coughing, mildly sore throat, and sneezing. We’ve treated all the –itises with antibiotics. These symptoms are just lingering and now we’re trying to kill them. Second question: What do you use to clean your house? Please…

  • Ask Leslie

    I’m going to step away from the political stuff for a while. It’s a good thing a reader sent in this question last week: Since you home school with 4 kids, it must be tough to stay organized. Do you have any suggestions for recipe keeping/menu planning? I’ve got four kids and it seems like…