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We’ve all left a candle burning or a curling iron on when we left the house accidentally at some point. We’re human. But we all know what can happen if unattended items can catch things on fire. During the winter season, especially the holidays, fire calls can rise due to more cooking, paying less attention and things like blankets and space heaters in the home. So, it’s always best to… Keep Reading
I still remember how much I looked forward to the used bookstore days with gram. Once a month we would pack up our books and take them into town to Amy’s Books to exchange them for credits for new books to read. Gram was an avid romance novel reader while I loved mysteries like Nancy Drew. I loved to walk down the aisles touching all the weathered covered and dog-eared pages…. Keep Reading
I look back at my twenties and wonder, how did I have so much time? To lay around and do nothing but watch bad movies, eat the worst foods imaginable and still have more time to get to work as a bartender or get my nails done. I’ve give anything for it not to be 6:45am on a Saturday IN PITTSBURGH and be up writing this. The life of a… Keep Reading
Kids grow so fast, and while we try to drag out the holidays as long as we can, it will be January before we know it and we will be covered in feet of snow missing our festive décor and trees. Being a single mom, I only get Max every OTHER year now, and that makes them even more special – and gives us reason to want to “preserve” them…. Keep Reading
Ok, so it’s Sunday before the game and you really just want to hit “place order” for delivery right now, right? Stop. Save your credits for a rainy day, because every yinzer knows that football is only best enjoyed with homemade fried deliciousness. Yes, I said fried. Save your bikini for another day my friends (you’ve been working out all week anyways, right? Smirk.) Pittsburgh is a cold Steel Town and only… Keep Reading
Ahhh it’s that time of year again when we want to think about all the good things we have in life around a big happy table of food. But not everyone has a cookie cutter life. As a single mom, I won’t be with Max this Thanksgiving and with family back in Pittsburgh, I’ll be spending it alone – not to fear, I love the day off, but still, it… Keep Reading
Playdates. Basically survival pow wows for new moms. It’s also a great way for sleep-deprived parents to actually shower, rally and put on makeup to get together with friends they haven’t seen in a long while or meet new people. And eat real food that’s not just cheerios dusted off from the floor under the high chair. Being that (1) we love food, and (2) we love eating and cooking food with… Keep Reading
Meeting celebrities is part of the job, and growing up as a bartender around famous athletes in Pittsburgh all the time made me immune to them early on in life. Now living in NYC, you can see Matt Damon walking down the street pushing a stroller with his wife (true story, it was one of my first encounters living in NYC). But that doesn’t mean sometimes I get enamored by… Keep Reading
I had a conversation last week about why I don’t like pizza. People usually gasp when I admit this because – how American can you be not to like pizza, right? But just as I have learned culturally, my friends grew up with certain foods and items, one thing we didn’t eat on the farm was – pizza. We were mostly self-sustained out there (shocking right) with a bi-monthly trip… Keep Reading
It seems like breast cancer is just screaming in our faces these days – it’s nearly impossible to not know someone who has been affected by this disease. Personally, I lost both of my aunts to it at an early age, and before there was a lot of treatment available. I watched them both leave us way too fast. Now, I see friends who are my own age going through… Keep Reading
This post was sponsored by Duracell as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central. When I was a kid, I remember having this blue clunky robot named Casey that would play cassette tapes. I would honestly play with it for hours, letting it play tapes of my favorite songs like Baloo from the Jungle Book while I would be doing some sort of other activity like sewing quilts or… Keep Reading
Ok so let’s be honest right off the bat. I don’t like breakfast or anything to do with it. I like breakfast food – like eggs and pancakes – but more around 6pm than 6am. I probably haven’t ate breakfast voluntarily in over 10 years at least – unless it was aspirin for a raging hangover. But when you now have a child in preschool that requires breakfast five days… Keep Reading