Basic, Never Boring
When I was growing up, nothing started our family’s holiday season like my mom making bread. It’s not just regular bread, but a family recipe stemming from my Dad’s side of the family called Swedish Brown Bread. This dense and savory, slightly sweet, fragrant bread is made with a little molasses and a lot of…
A little known “holiday” which is, now, near and dear to my heart is a day dedicated to vodka. Who knew that there was a National Vodka day? I’m here to tell ya, there is! As a vodka drinker, I prefer Tito’s or Grey Goose. I have found the more premium brands taste cleaner and…
They say that we all go through “seasons” in our lives. I like to think that is a cute way of saying, “Child, it sucks out there sometimes. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get to it”. For some of us, the most trying season we face is after our child is born and…
The summer season brings late nights, intense heat and humidity, and vacations. All of which don’t leave me wanting to use my oven all that often if I can help it. We actually just got back from a little road trip to Gulf Shores, AL and I did not want to have to cook dinner,…
When trying to decide what to write about for July, several topics came to mind: *July 4th/Independence Day *Summer Vacations *More “woe-is-me summer break is not as fun as a mom as it was when I was a kid” After nixing those ideas and searching a little more, I realized that National Cheesecake Day is…
The end of the school year is here {or will be soon} for most of us moms. It’s time to show our appreciation to the teachers who’ve loved on our kids all school year. As a former teacher, myself, I will admit that the end of the school year was basically like a second Christmas!…
Is this my life? Is this what I have to do all the time? Every month, I have to just accept that it’s going to fall apart for two weeks? It started like a typical Thursday morning but before I got out of bed I already knew something was off with me. I was rushing…
What we’re working on… A Book Club! via GIPHY The Ur Basic Mom Book Club. This book club would be a linked group to our Facebook page. Book selection and discussion would be lead by one of our fabulous contributors each month. Would you join? Head over to our Facebook post and vote! What we’re…
April Fools’ Day goes back fairly long ago in history. It’s speculated that it originated in the 1580s in France when they switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. Those who didn’t “get the memo” or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued…
Eating healthy/clean and St. Patrick’s Day don’t really mix, especially when you’re not willing to give up beer for the holiday. That’s when I stumbled across a recipe for Cabbage Dumplings that are Whole 30 -friendly. Cabbage dumplings sound kind of weird. “Won’t I miss the best part of the dumpling, the soft doughy outside?”…