You are all AMAZING! Thanks to all of your generosity, and the promise that the last few donations will come in the next couple of days, the Online Flea Market for Pancreatic Cancer raised…. **Drumroll Please*** $566!!!!!!!!!! I kind of can’t believe it! The 5K Run/Walk is next weekend, and my donation page is open [...]
**LONG POST AHEAD** Months ago, when it was announced that the Healthy Living Summit would be held in my hometown of Chicago, I got really excited! To be honest, it wasn’t because I necessarily wanted to go to the conference, but because DOZENS of my favorite bloggers would be coming to our fair city! Then, [...]
I have been looking forward to this weekend since oh, early April. A bunch of friends from various areas were all coming into town, and we were going to have a girls’ weekend at a local winery (yes, they have those here in Illinois!) and spend a couple days just hanging out. There was one [...]
I’d been looking forward to June 26 for a long time. Besides the fact that it was my dad’s birthday (happy late birthday Dad!), it was the scheduled night for our bi-monthly meeting of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pans! We decided at our last meeting that our next culinary stop would be Latin America, [...]
Late on Friday night, for no apparent reason, I got that darn cupcake baking bug again. No, not THIS cupcake bug… There’s something that’s just so fun about making those little perfect bites of cake covered with frosting! At about 11 p.m. on Friday, I made chocolate cupcakes with white chocolate chips. What I didn’t [...]