French Toast: The Simple Yet Overlooked Breakfast Food
French toast is one of those foods around our house that everyone likes but we rarely make at home. It’s so simple to make but we never could get it to taste as good as restaurants. Then the other night, we were debating what type of breakfast we wanted to do for dinner (we love [...]
The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead
The Indigo Spell launches with the realization that Sydney is a virgin thus leading her to cast a challenging spell to scry someone she doesn’t know, Ms. Terwilliger’s older sister. Afterwards we learn that Sydney was invited and plans to attend a vampire wedding as part of improving relationships between the Alchemists and Moroi. This [...]
Green Day. Small Venue. Best Night Ever.
A few nights ago Tim and I had the best date night in probably our entire relationship. A few weeks ago, we found out that Green Day, one of our favorite bands, was coming to a small venue near us. This is highly unusual for a mega band to do a club tour but for [...]
Can Ubuntu Mobile OS Compete Against iOS and Android OS Tablets?
If you’re a casual computer user, you probably haven’t heard of the open-source Ubuntu project let alone the Ubuntu mobile project. There are three major operating systems (OS) for desktop computers and I’m sure you’re familiar with at least two of those—Windows and Macintosh. Linux is the third major OS and has been gaining huge [...]
As a child, I remember making microwave fudge and dug out the recipe to make with the boys last weekend. This fudge is seriously easy to make and super kid friendly. We’ve made it with cocoa or creamy peanut butter in the past but I was out of cocoa so we made the peanut butter [...]
Cicadas are already coming out in force on the East Coast and deep South but that will soon spread across the entire US. Millions of Cicadas are expected to be filling up our trees after spending the past seventeen years under ground. Even though cicadas come out in swarms they wont hurt you as they [...]
Each Monday, we’ll highlight some of the news that caught our attention over the past week. Should The Blood Alcohol Content Level Be Lowered? The National Transportation Safety Board would like states to lower the blood-alcohol content level to 0.05 from the current standard of 0.08. A women who weighs about 100 pounds could have [...]
Every once in a while we get so busy with life that we’re a little behind with blogging. When that happens, Random Ramblings happen to just dump everything in my head. So here goes… What Are The Boys Up To? Drama King is over the moon excited for summer this year. He asked about attending [...]
Shake it Up is one of our boys favorite shows so they were thrilled when I revealed their next item to review, a collection of songs from the third season of Shake it Up. Tim was the first to grab the disc so he could import the album to our digital collection. The boys listened [...]
The second book, Alienation*, left us with the threat of invasion by Christmas time and our hero, Colt McAllister, had just returned from a birthday party when he learned of a Thule warship crash in Nevada. After finishing the last chapter of Alienation I couldn’t wait for the next book. After a while, I started [...]