Happy Chinese New Year! Since it lands this year on the same day as Valentine's Day, we're going to have a Chinese New Year/Valentine dinner. Instead of our traditional Feburary 14 heart-shaped pizza and chocolate, we're having Chinese dumplings, wonton soup, and lo mein - long noodles for long life. Plus something Valentines-y and chocolate at the end.
 

In honor of our very wintry, wet weather here in Texas, we thought we would share some great reads for snuggling by the fireplace (possibly with lots of pillows inside a Lucy & Michael playtent?). These are a few all-time favorites of ours - true gems that everyone in the family will love.

It's definitely fall. The season always puts us in an in-the-kitchen kind of mood. Wanting to cook a little more, to warm everything up (just a little - remember, we're in Houston) to fill the house with yummy smells. All of which has just this year brought us to a realization. An obvious but, to us, pretty profound realization. The realization that, really, it all happens here, in the kitchen.