Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful extended 4th of July weekend! We had a fun-filled weekend, but a busy one!  Bebe E’s friend celebrated her 1st birthday, we went to two BBQ’s on the 4th, we finally rented and watched The Blind Side, and I went out with a few girlfriends to see Eclipse on Saturday night (a rare night out past 9 PM without my family) and I’m still hurting from getting home much too late....

  Dreary, cold, June Gloom isn’t so bad when I know we’re having shabu-shabu for dinner. I’m sure there are many of you reading this that are thinking, “What? Shabu-shabu in the summer?” Trust me, it worked really well for us in Southern California last week while my mom was visiting. I woke up one morning to very gray skies and cool weather. I decided right then that we would have shabu-shabu for dinner that...

  Oh well, the Lakers lost 96 – 89 and the series against the Celtics is now tied 2-2.  :( For Game 4 of the Lakers vs. Celtics NBA Finals, I decided to do a little Googling regarding the rivalry between these two teams since I wasn’t familiar with the historical details.  Apparently, this rivalry goes back many years, ever since the NBA was founded in 1946.  (That’s a long time!)  Since then, the Lakers and Celtics have...