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Vegetarian Marshmallow Recipe
I was flipping through the most recent issue of Better Homes & Gardens, and I came upon an image of a glass jar full of marshmallows. Yes! I need exactly that kind of jar in my kitchen, too.… Read MoreSince I was pregnant last year at this time and limiting my refined sugar intake, I didn’t drink a single cup of hot chocolate. This year is going to be different!
Two years ago, I made these marshmallows from scratch, but I vowed never to use gelatin again. I’m a vegetarian and shouldn’t be using gelatin in the first place, but the smell of plain gelatin plus water was exactly
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Reflections on Motherhood
Two of my favorite bloggers recently wrote reflections about the difficult intersection between our personal lives as mothers and our professional lives. Amy of Progressive Pioneer wrote a whole essay about how she decided to temporarily give up blogging. She explained:… Read MoreThis is what it came down to, the choice between the illusion of a life lived and the real, flesh and bones, eye to eye, heart to heart life lived. Pixels versus people. The gap between the life represented on screen, and the day-to-day happenings in our home had grown to an unacceptable level. I wondered when I had crossed over that murky, gray line into the territory of -
Slipper Renovation
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Images courtesy of Felting by GrazimI’ve been coveting these slippers on Etsy for a while now. Since I can’t justify the price tag while we’re in Penny Pinching Mode, I thought about adding them to my Christmas wishlist.
But then, while doing an errand at Walgreens, I stumbled across a pair of slippers in the $1 bin. In general, I try to steer clear of those kinds of cheap products because they aren’t really cheap at all (they take a huge toll on the environment, workers, etc.). But sometimes I compromise those values in favor of my values related to saving money.
I scooped up that pair of
