Deep Thoughts of a Common Household Mom

We spent the latter part of last week recovering from our trip, doing laundry, getting back into work projects, and remembering how to cook...

The conclusion of the awards ceremony for our recent college tour: Best Mascot:   My son says, “Obviously, MIT.   Tim The Beaver.”   Ti...

In the spirit of the Olympics, the Common Household wishes to bestow these awards to the colleges we saw on our recent tour.   Only the f...

We’ve been travelling – that great American rite of passage called The College Tour.   Nine days, seven states, five scho...

Following up on my last post… When I finally got around to cooking something from a recipe, I made Chickpea and C...

Lately my culinary efforts have been underwhelming.  This is partly due to the heat wave, but also due to my overload of work trying vainly...

Several days ago, one of the children discovered that there is a mole living near the air conditioning unit.  We have had a slow leak in ...