Playing with French Fries to “Reinvent A Classic”

July 1, 2011
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We need your help you guys? Seriously we do. I’ve taken a leap and ventured out of my comfort zone into new territory here and the boys have decide that they’re coming along for the adventure as well. Like I can stop them from putting their 2 cents worth in. I’m one of 25 food bloggers who have been invited […]

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KitchenAid 1000 Cooks for a Cure-Giveaway

June 27, 2011
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    Breast Cancer happens to be a topic that we’ve all become very familiar with over the past few decades. Whether it has been helping one of our family members during their struggle or discovering that an old friend has unfortantely lost their couragous battle with breast cancer, it has touched us all in one […]

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11 Days of Chaos

June 24, 2011
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Let me begin by saying that I’m a delusional dork. Yep, I have been a complete and total disorganized, delusional dork for the past 11 days.  You see studley here has been in California coaching and competeing. He’s been hanging out at Huntington Beach, surfing at Lowers and kicking his heels up in San Clemente. He’ll be gone a little while longer […]

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Orange You Glad

June 17, 2011
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Orange you glad I like to tease you guys? Okay so I haven’t had much sleep in the past two days but I probably would’ve said that anyway, I’m a dork like that. While M2 is wrapping up his last day of school, M1 is chilling at the pool and I’m at work I figured […]

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Boys of Summer

June 14, 2011
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“Warning: What do you get when a beach girl has been cooped up to long? A kazillion photos” Summertime is officially here and I’m ecstatic! Even though we eat, sleep and breathe surf it’s sometimes done vicariously through my surfer. Between school, sports teams, work, etc… our days spent frolicking at the beach the past […]

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Ducks and Velcro

June 6, 2011

*Just a mom’s personal point of view* These past couple of weeks I’ve been in full mommy mode. With school wrapping up and summer break around the corner I’ve been contemplating the many fun adventures we’ll try to squeeze into our short summer. I’ve also been very reflective lately contemplating Ducks and Velcro. Most people when they’re pondering something that has […]

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Passing Self Worth On To Our Children.

May 25, 2011
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*This post is my personal view point only* As an adult we come across many situations where we’ve had to dust off our egos and pick ourselves up by our boot straps. Be it the promotion we were passed over for or discovering that our position within in our circle of peers wasn’t exactly as […]

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Roasted Vegetable Salad with Mustard Pesto

May 17, 2011
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Way back in the day, when I first started dating my surfer we used to go out every Friday and Saturday evening. Most of the time we would head downtown to the historic district and listen to a few bands play. DS loves music and happened to know some of the guys who were playing […]

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Parmesan Encrusted Potato Salad Cakes

May 11, 2011
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Lately our surf loving lifestyle has kicked into overdrive. It never fails, when April rolls around and M2 has his birthday we seem to jump from spring to summer in a flash. The boys sports teams are in full swing, school is focused on end of the year tests and Surferboy is burning the daylight […]

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Mom

May 8, 2011
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Only One Mother Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky, Hundreds of shells on the shore together, Hundreds of birds that go singing by, Hundreds of lambs in the sunny weather. Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, But only one mother […]

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