St. Patrick's Day is one of my favorite holidays, partly because I enjoy a good cup of Irish Coffee! Here are a list of my favorite Irish Coffee Recipes. The Original Irish Coffee Bailey's Irish Coffee Buena Vista Irish Coffee Irish Coffee Sundae I had to include this, even though it is not coffee, but … Continue reading The Best Irish Coffee Recipes
Happy Valentines' Day from My Color-Coded Life. My Pinterest News Feed has been filled with red hearts, candy, and cute ways to make the perfect valentines for weeks now. When I was in my 20s, I HATED this holiday, so much in fact, that my mom started sending me funny valentines each year signed with … Continue reading I Heart U
My wrapping marathon has begun. It began Saturday when I attended my friend's annual gift wrapping party. She makes the most incredible bows! She's a wrapping expert. I always choose a special paper for the gifts we will open X-mas Eve. (We give each other new pajamas and a book the night before the big … Continue reading Over the fields we go. Wrapping all the way…
The time between Halloween and Thanksgiving always seems to fly by. Actually, the time between Halloween and New Year's always flies by, but unlike Starbucks who introduces their red cups on November 1st, I like to celebrate each holiday in order. When I was first married, I hosted Thanksgiving at my house. The week … Continue reading COUNTDOWN TO THANKSGIVING
We had a great time at our annual Halloween Party this past weekend. In addition to good friends, fun times, and delicious snacks it's always great for the kids to do a test run of their costumes! A spooky clip-art owl was my inspiration for the party. Here are the materials I used to make … Continue reading A Happy Spooky Halloween Party
I'm looking forward to just relaxing this 4th of July, spending time with family and having fun in the sun. I decided to put together small gift bags for the kids to give them some fun things to do poolside. I put all this together from the Target dollar bins and my own computer! I … Continue reading 4th of July Fun!
Seriously, I need to rename this My Weekend Favorites... who cares about the alliteration. On TV - I still need to catch up on Scandal , Suits, Chicago Fire & PD, and Law & Order SVU. But I am finally caught up on Nashville and Grey's ( can we talk about Isaiah Washington coming back? … Continue reading My Friday Favorites 03.21.14
Last year I tried a new recipe for Christmas morning Breakfast. I wrote about it here: Blueberry Maple Breakfast Bake. What I loved most about this recipe was it was easy to prepare while I was cooking Christmas Eve dinner and it took the same amount of time for it to bake in the morning as … Continue reading Spinach-Feta Bake
Happy Friday everyone, the first Friday of 2014. I hope you have recuperated from all of your holiday festivities and are sticking to any New Year's resolutions you may have made. Here are all the things I am loving this week! On TV - Parenthood - started back last night with a new episode - one … Continue reading My Friday Favorites 01.03.14
As I mentioned in my Happy New year post - my sisters and I have been working on a Family Cookbook Scrapbook for two years. It started as a gift from me to my sister, Roberta, in Atlanta. She loves pumpkins, so I gathered a bunch of pumpkin recipes and scrapbooked them into a binder … Continue reading Family Cookbook Scrapbook
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