My friend has always had a wide selection of good beer in her fridge. You could always rummage around and find two or three really cool beers in there that you like and hadn’t had in a while, or had always wanted to try. Last winter during said rummaging, I pulled out a Winter’s Bourbon [...]

I have never been a fan of frozen pizza. Ever! Until I tried California Pizza Kitchen’s version and I was blown away. I was so impressed that I went back to the grocery store and purchased a few other flavors to have on hand. Bye-bye restaurant delivery, hello CPK in my freezer.
Baked according to the [...]

The rule of thumb is that smaller packages are cheaper to ship at the Post Office and larger ones are cheaper to ship UPS. So when I found myself with a stack of medium sized boxes to ship this year, I wasn’t sure where to go.
I tried the United States Post Office first. The lines [...]

Who says the best gifts this year will be under the Christmas tree? Why not steal the show by stuffing a few stockings with a few new DVD’s from Nick Jr?
Props and Pans will be giving away 5 sets of the DVD’s we reviewed below. You can enter to win a set of 4 by [...]

Welcome to our newest addition - Must Have Monday’s. Find out what we use in our homes and our lives.
Every Monday we’ll tell you about the things we can’t live without. If you have a “must have” item to pass along please e-mail us. We welcome contributions from our readers.

I would absolutely have a nervous [...]

There is nothing better than a warm cup of coffee on a cold, winter day. Problem is that I only want one cup, not a whole pot. I’ve tried many of the stir in products with no avail. When a Senseo® Single-Serve coffee maker arrived at my door I was beyond excited. I’d seen this [...]

Picture standing in the Macy’s department store with your mother looking at purses when out of no where she says, “Let’s go try on bra’s together.” We’re close, but we’re not that close. She was talking about the Wacoal brand that she had seen Oprah list as a favorite thing.
After I got over the embarrassment, [...]

If you have young children like I do, chances are you have a love/hate relationship with crayons, markers and pens. I love that my kids enjoy drawing and coloring but I really hate finding marks from the aforementioned implements, both accidental and intentional, all over my house. We won’t even discuss the amounts of paper [...]

I am an occasional consumer of the goodies at Bath and Body Works. I love their stuff, it’s usually that I’m not at the mall when I need that sort of thing and then when I am at the mall I’m stocked up so timing is an issue. However, I was recently in [...]

Table for Eight, a new book by Meagan Francis, is about “Raising a large family in a small-family world.” In the interest of full disclosure, I need to tell you that I had an opportunity to contribute to this book when Meagan was compiling it back in the fall of 2006, but I never actually [...]