Against the Grain

The label on the Hershey's cocoa powder makes a darn good cake.  

I got tired of the look of my cell phone and attacked it with 8 bottles of nail polish.

I could never decide on curtains, so painted my kitchen windows with acrylics.  

Sautee' onions in olive oil, add yellow squash, pecans, salt, pepper and nutmeg.  Pan fry until squash is soft yet firm.

Let your kids play in the sprinkler.  Fuss not about the bathing suits.

Massage your kids.  You will both enjoy it.  Don't forget the husband, maybe he will hook you up sometime.

Ditch the DVD and CD cases and store the discs on a zip up binder to save storage space.

Call that person you have thought about lately but feel weird because it has been a long time.

Pray for longer than 2 minutes, get to the point of no more words...the real ones will soon follow.

Watch more John Cleese films.

Listen to some Bill Withers and Talking Heads.

Let your kids eat popcicles while taking a bath.

Remember that you are friends with your spouse...best friends.

Toss out the jeans you will never lose the baby weight to fit back into.  C'mon!  6 yeas of hoarding is long enough.

Make a Mr. Potato Head out of a pear.  Use tooth picks to secure a strawberry nose and carrot hands, etc.

Remember sock puppets?  

Draw a tattoo on your sleeping husband.

Go to the mirror and see that you are changing in a good way.

Turn a difficult conversation around with listening and hearing.  

Look at your baby album.

Go lay on your lawn at the end of your day for 3 minutes.  Look up at the sky and decompress.

Make a mess and clean it up.

Make another one and clean it up later.