Author: Tammy Litke

I teased you a few days ago about the Good Cook Kitchen Drawer Sweepstakes.  It starts on June 2nd.  If you enter you’ll have a chance to either choose 15 Good Cook kitchen tools that you would like to have to make your ultimate kitchen drawer – look for the “Add Me” icon on participating products.

Being a mom is hard.  It’s exhausting.  Much of the time it’s a thankless job.  We often feel like failures.  We put waaay too much pressure on ourselves.  What every mom needs on occassion is a Mom’s Night Out.  A time where she and her friends can decompress, let their hair down and not have two or four or six (or more!) sticky hands needing something that only Mom can give.

I was planning on hosting a Mom’s Night Out party through Mom Select earlier in May.  Yeah, that never happened.  It was supposed to happen.  But you know what it’s like when you have kids.  And your friends have kids.  The best intentions get usurped …by kids.

While we don’t primarily eat gluten-free we have plenty of friends who do.  It’s usually not too much of an issue to plan snacks or desserts around them when we entertain, but meals are a whole other matter.  I had full intentions of making this breakfast for my friend when she was here last week, but time got away from us and I never did 🙁  It’s extremely tasty and well worth making even if you don’t eat gluten-free.

I know I write a lot about our cell phone plans on my blog but when you’re on to something great, like lowest priced unlimited plans, you just want to tell everyone about it.

The past two weeks would have been really difficult for us without a cell phone plan.  Between my blog, picking up friends and family at the airport, and traveling around the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex, we used a lot of data, text and minutes.

This whole high school graduation season of life has been so busy AND so much fun for us.  It was ALL about Amber.  She had a great time hanging out with long time and new friends, reminiscing about her school years and eating and doing all the things she liked.  Amber’s always been fond of Kool-Aid fruit drinks so when I was shopping at Walmart for her graduation open house party, I made sure to pick up the new 96 oz. bottles of Kool-Aid.

Our daughter only asked for one thing to celebrate her High School Graduation and that was to go to Medieval Times, because there’s nothing like celebrating a coming of age milestone with a meal you get to eat with your fingers and a bit of jousting for entertainment .

When you’ve been married as long as I have (20 years), you look in your kitchen drawers and realize you need to get married again so you can have a wedding showers to replace your old worn kitchen tools .  OR you could just mark your calendar for June 2, 2014 to visit GoodCook.com to take part in their #KitchenDrawerContest, so that you can enter to win 15 Good Cook Kitchen tools of your choice or 15 of them compiled by a Good Cook Kitchen Expert blogger (like me!).

It’s kind of funny.  Our daughter and her best friend are alike in so many ways.  This past weekend when she came to celebrate Amber’s graduation with us, the girls were thrilled to be able to go to Medieval Times and Comic Con together.  They were doing the whole fantasy/sci-fi geek out thing, and it was so fun to watch.

At the same time…they are polar opposites.  Strange but true.  Amber is a total indoor, sit at the computer, don’t make me go out in the sunshine or I’ll melt kind of girl.  Where as Megan…she’d camp out all summer long if she could.  She communes with nature.

If you take a peek at the top right hand corner of my blog, you’ll read a little bit about me, and then you’ll see that I’m a World Traveler.  I’ve been to some posh places and to some down right scary ones.  My family tends to be frugal when traveling (which is why we’ve been able to go to all the places we’ve been), and so we’ll only connect online outside the United States if we can get free Wi-Fi.  The thing is, one is always leaving themselves vulnerable when using a public Wi-Fi network.

I have the privilege to know some incredible dads.  Of course I’m a bit biased to say that my own husband is one, but this year there is another one that stands out in my mind.