“Ring-a-ling, ring-a-ling”… the sick bell tolls. “Ring-a-ling, ring-a-ling”… I charge up the stairs, peeking in on the patients who have summoned. “I’m cold, can I have more covers?” “Can I have a popcicle?” “I need a drink.” “My tummy hurts.” Naturally, as a parent, when your kids are sick you want to do anything you [...]
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Hi all! Just a little housekeeping post this morning. I recently found out that with some recent blog changes, I accidentally messed up my RSS subscriber feed and unintentionally dropped most of my subscribers. This means, if you subscribe to Dine & Dish via RSS feed like Google Reader, it’s possible you haven’t been getting [...]
Menu Plan: Feb 24th – March 2nd {Recipe: Balsamic Fish Tacos}
A recipe you will definitley want on your menu, the Dine & Dish Menu Plan for the week, and a great giveaway from Marzetti’s Simply Dressed Salad Dressing, all below! I am obsessed, with a capital “O”, with fish tacos lately. I just can’t get enough of them… so much that they’ve made a weekly [...]
Simplify Saturday: FreshBooks Invoice & Accounting System
Today’s Simplify Saturday post is for all of you knee deep in getting your expense and income stuff together for dreaded tax day. It’s not a task I love at all, but thanks to FreshBooks, I finally have found a simple cloud based system that works for me. Small business owners, freelancers, bloggers, photographers… those [...]
Spoilers {Recipe: Baked Chocolate Cake Doughnuts}
You won’t find any spoilers in this post… just wanted to let you know that ahead of time! Let me start by telling you, I was late to the Downton Abbey wagon. Because of that, I have had to avoid social media like the plague as it is quite the hot topic in my Twitter [...]
I Caved {Recipe: Biscoff Glaze for Homemade Baked Doughnuts}
Scroll down for an amazing doughnut recipe! I remember a time in my life when I didn’t care for doughnuts. I was in college, and apparently I had the ability to turn off some little switch that kept me from liking things that were not so great for you. You know that switch? The one [...]
Project 365 2013: Our Life in Photos February 3rd – 16th
One of my favorite Instagram pics from the week. I’ll admit that I haven’t been in the mood to take pictures lately. I get this way just about every year around this time… I feel like my life is just one day after another of the same old same old and get in a serious [...]
Dine and Dish Menu Plan: February 17th – 23rd {Recipe: Taco Soup}
I didn’t end up creating a menu plan last week because we were out of town over the weekend and I just didn’t get it done. I can tell you that our wallets and waistlines both saw just what failing to plan does… I spent more money eating out and I’m sure that equaled more [...]
Strawberry Pomegranate Vitamin Burst Float
Leave it to me to turn something good for you into something not as good for you. Did you know Green Mountain Coffee has a line of wellness K-Cup packs? It’s true!
Dr. Phil, Love and Expectations…Ramblings on Valentine’s Day
Did I ever tell you about the time ten years ago when my husband and I were invited to be on The Dr. Phil Show? I don’t think I have… Let me give you some back story first. When I was in high school, on Valentine’s Day every year, our school office would be overloaded [...]
