Pot roast to be exact was for dinner last night, and it turned out wonderfully! And it was really simple to make, so I thought I’d share the recipe.

2 teaspoons olive oil
3 pounds boneless chuck roast
1 onion, chopped
4 medium unpeeled potatoes cut into pieces
baby carrots - as many as you want
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 bay [...]

Little Man will be entering kindergarten in early September. On the one hand I’m so excited for him. On the other, I’m sad because, since kindergarten is all day, every day, I feel as if he will be going on with a part of his life without me. It makes me think about how fast [...]

Yes, I’m officially a geek. How so? Because I got so excited, like “I got a new handbag!” excited, when my new Seagate External Hard Drive arrived. This is my new best friend:

It’s so cool. I bought it on eBay for $66. It’s 100 gig, so it’s space I desperately needed, and I really [...]

StumbleUpon is an addiction. A wonderful addiction. I love how I can just click the little “Stumble!” button and be introduced to so many new and interesting websites. It’s instant gratification at its best. Or worst depending on how you look at things.
One of the sites I found this evening is called Make and [...]

My new design for Up North Mommy is now complete. Isn’t it beautiful!! Natalie from Personatalie designed it using self-hosting Wordpress so that I could do whatever I wanted design wise (hey, that’s my brother-in-law’s company’s name), and I’m happy we did it that way.
When she asked me what I wanted my blog to look [...]

I started making one of my favorite recipes of all time just a few weeks ago. I was perusing allrecipes.com, one of my favorite sites of all time, and found this recipe for taco bake. It’s used as an entree, and it’s one everyone in my family loves.  Even my husband makes leftovers the following [...]