Even your kids will eat this kale

It's true!  My entire family ate this dish up like crazy.  Make them tomorrow night, you won't regret it.

Chili-Sauce Kale Chips- Everyday Food Magazine
(I omitted the chili-sauce for serving to my toddler)

2 (20oz) bunches of curly kale, stems removed, leaves torn into 2 inch pieces
2 tbsp olive oil
5 tsp Sriracha sauce, or more if desired
course salt
Directions: 
Preheat oven to 300 with racks in upper and lower thirds. Wash and dry kale and place on a large rimmed baking sheet (kale will shrink as it bakes). In a small bowl, stir together oil and Sriracha. Drizzle over kale and season with salt. Using your hands, toss to coat. Bake until kale is crisp and just beginning to brown at edges; about 35 minutes, tossing every 10 minutes. Let cool on sheet on wire rack.
To store, keep in a large zip-top plastic bag at room temperature up to 3 days

108 year old stairs

This was a messy, but so worth it project.  Anyone who owns an older home knows it can be daunting and frustrating.  You just never know what you're going to find when you pull out carpet...or anything for that matter.  These stairs were so bad, but once I saw their beauty I had to put the nix on putting a runner.  Sand them, poly them, and bring them back to their original look.  We breathed in lots of dust and cleaned for three days after the crew left, but we are so happy.  This house is worth it.  I only wish my camera took better pictures.  (we have a front stair case and back stair case, or servants stairs...which I make my husband use-ha  just kidding)




  

Time to live

Being a women is hard.  We are sensitive to everything, our feelings get hurt more, we are begrudgingly insecure, we always try too hard to be perfect, and we are excellent worriers.  I am for sure all those things, and I believe my previous post was a reflection of me not wanting to be that way anymore.  My "funk" is over, and I am hopeful it was just a major bump in the road  to becoming a better person and someone my daughter can be proud of someday.  Thank you to everyone for the phone calls, the emails, the blog comments, and all the support while I came out of the fog.  It wasn't my original intention to rally such kindness from everyone, but thank you for it and thank you for not thinking I am some crazy person.  I was in a bad place, but feel I am in a very special place at the moment...even though there is still  a lot of work to tackle in the worry department.  I was born into a long line of worriers, so this may take awhile.  :-)  There is no better time then now to live life, enjoy every day, and tackle that battlefield of negativity.