Spikey little pineapple tops have moved into pots in our backyard, waving their little fronds in the air, like they just don’t care. Nate and Alex are obsessed with growing them, so when I asked what I should make for dessert, the answer was in front of us. Not one of those plants has produced… Continue reading Don’t Sweat it: Easy Pineapple Dessert

The craft alarm sounded like a soft tinkling of wind chimes when I passed by the value craft section at the store. For under $5, I could buy a clear plastic tropical bird-shaped suncatcher that included three plastic pots of paint and a brush. That sounded like the perfect project for me: just color the… Continue reading Craft Alert: Suncatcher in a Kit

Our laundry bag has seen things. It speaks of horrors of the tomato-lined entrails of jeans pockets, shaken loose just a little too late. Or that piece of chewed-up gum that fell out of someone’s mouth in the car—and no one found it—but somehow the laundry bag did. Now it appears that our laundry bag… Continue reading Scrub-A-Dub Those Scrubs

Bikini Bottom, hold tight! The Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks Team is coming at you with a pineapple cake for Alex’s 21st birthday! Why pineapple? Alex is into pineapple mocktails and cocktails—and he was a ginormous fan of SpongeBob SquarePants as a child. We used to watch lots of episodes together, so I couldn’t resist taking… Continue reading Pineapple Cake Under the Sea