Author: traci

  • Mom, What’s For Dinner? – The rest of July 2018

    I just looked over my plans for July.  I’m going to be gone on and off for the rest of the month. Week of July 8th – I only need to plan for 3 meals.  We’re going to be gone for 2 days during the week. Lasagna or Creamy Spinach Pasta Sauce over Penne Sloppy…

  • This year I decided to sit at the beginning of the parade not realizing I was going to miss all of the cool floats.  Our town’s parade begins in 4 spots – a church and 3 entrances of a shopping plaza.  If a float or group started at the church or the one entrance of…

  • This year some kind soul paid for the fireworks display in our little city.  So we had a bigger and better fireworks display this year.  When the fireworks display was over with, you could smell the sulfur and see all the smoke.   I was able to get a lot of good photos of the fireworks. …

  • An Oasis in the City

    If you ask anyone who truly knows me, they would tell you that I could be a tour guide for our area. My aunt came to visit a month ago.  One morning, we spent time going to go get donuts and then I took her to various places.  My mom was ready to come over…

  • Toledo Zoo Part 3 – Post #4

    This is my final post about the Toledo Zoo. Today’s video takes us to the primates and some of the bigger land animals. We enjoyed watching the baby orangutan.  He was extremely active while we were observing him.  So cool! The hippo was also interesting to watch.  He/She was in the water and then got…

  • Poached Chicken in the Instant Pot (GF, W30, DF)

    As I stated in my Menu Planning blog post, I’m part of the launch party for Eat at Home’s newest cookbook.  (For more information about the cookbook, click here.) Tonight Hubby and the boys are going to have the Memphis BBQ Chicken Tacos before heading to either work or our town’s block party.  The recipe…

  • Mom, What’s For Dinner? – Week of July 2, 2018 Plus a review of Eat at Home Tonight

    Last week, my friend Molly was in town.  The Imaginative One was happy when she left because that meant I would once again cook dinner for him.  LOL! A month ago, I signed up for Eat at Home’s first cookbook’s launch.  I received the cookbook a few weeks ago.  I immediately read the book from cover…

  • Last week, my friend Molly came to visit me. Instead of eating out all the time, we ate salads for 3 of our lunches. I came up with this salad. Molly could not stop raving about this salad, so I put it on my blog. I had bought meal prep bowls. I put some of…

  • Eat My Bubbles

    When Hubby and I went on the Disney Cruise in 2015, we bought a Nikon Coolpix camera.  The battery on that camera has a short life so we were unable to get a lot of photos while on the trip.  We still have the camera though.  We pull it out when we want to have…

  • Toledo Zoo Part 3 – Post #3

    Today we are going to explore the aquarium at the Toledo Zoo.  We really enjoyed the aquarium. One of the coolest parts of the aquarium was the x ray fish.  I don’t have a photograph of them because it was difficult to take a photo.  Hubby talked about that fish for a long while after…