These are the shoes.

This is the dress.

This past weekend, I headed to Kansas City for a birthday celebration for one of my college friends, which actually morphed into a bachelore...

Clean up all the leaves in the yard, only to have more leaves appear an hour after this task is complete. Take Conservative Boy to Springfie...

Mmm chocolate. What would the world be like without chocolate? It's a fate I dare not ponder. Instead, I'll dwell in a brighter worl...

This morning I've been mulling over what I should write about on my blog today. I've been rather negligent lately, and now that I ha...

One of the other birthday gifts I received (aside from the BIG one ), was a Toddy . I asked for the Toddy because I'd heard rave reviews...

On Sunday morning, after I took My Mom to the airport (she flew into town for a day of dress shopping—a successful day, by the way), I curle...

I much prefer pies and cookies over cakes and cupcakes, but when I saw the recipe for pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting in Real Si...

Last week, I shared some pretty big news with you. To be honest, if you know Conservative Boy and I very well at all, it's not pretty bi...

You never know about birthdays. Sometimes they're swell. Sometimes they're not so swell, like when they fall on Tuesday and you have...

First, I would like to take the opportunity to wish My Mom a happy birthday. Yes, my lovely mother gave birth to me the day before her own b...

There is not an exclamation point at the end of "BioBlitz." At least not that I am aware of. But in my world, something that sound...

Last weekend, I made two recipes from the October issue of Real Simple. It seemed like the right thing to do, since I actually had enough ti...

I'm incredibly excited to share a special magazine with you today. It's not a publication you can find in stores or that you can sub...