by Mary Carver | Aug 21, 2014 | Home Life, recipes & food
Picnic. Barbecue. Cookout. Grill out. Hamburger fry. Potluck at the park. What do you call an outdoor gathering with food? I usually go with barbecue, although since I live in the (FINE. one of the?) BBQ capital, that can be a tad confusing. Anyway. Three of my...
by Mary Carver | Aug 14, 2014 | Books, Movies & TV
I read a lot of books. I do not read a lot of books twice. Actually, I read VERY FEW books more than once. Aside from the Chronicles of Narnia (when I was a child) and the Percy Jackson series (when I was – OKAY FINE – last year), two of the only books...
by Mary Carver | Aug 12, 2014 | Faith Life, Family Life, Home Life, parenting, recipes & food
We have a snack problem at our house. Namely, we like them too much. And by “we,” I mostly mean my six-year-old, but she learned it from me. [Cue the commercial flashback now: “I learned it from watching you, okay?!”] Given the choice between...
by Mary Carver | Aug 7, 2014 | Home Life, recipes & food
Earlier this summer a friend posted a s’mores-themed recipe to my Facebook wall. And last week my mom slipped me a {different} s’mores-themed recipe that she’d ripped out of a magazine. Apparently I’ve become the s’mores lady. I think...
by Mary Carver | Aug 2, 2014 | Books, Movies & TV, My Life, What I'm Into
August! It’s AUGUST! And school starts in 12 days! (Not that I’m counting. But I totally am.) July went by fast, as evidenced by my shorter-than-usual lists of books read, recipes tried and hours worked. But it was still a good month, and I’ve got a...
