My Birthday and an Edible Fruit Arrangement Yesterday, I turned 35. Yep, only five more years until I hit the BIG 40! I had a fabulous birthday, my husband and children took me out to one of my favorite sushi restaurants and gave me a ton of beautiful winter clothes. With my birthday smack … Read more
I love breakfast food and pancakes if you have noticed are one of my favorite breakfast foods. I love pancakes because of their versatility, I love the fact you can make them plain, add in chocolate chips, blueberries, and even different spices. I love creating fun meals for my kids with pancakes and with pumpkins … Read more
When my son Tristan was a baby we went over to my husband’s professor’s house for their Thanksgiving dinner. Their home sat on several acres with a barn, a green house, and a couple of ponds. It was beautiful at their home in the country in North Carolina. The house was a quaint old two-story … Read more
One of the things I love about cooking is the ability to create yummy and creative foods for my kids. With Thanksgiving next week I have a yummy and healthy breakfast and lunch to make the holiday come to life. My favorite breakfast food is pancakes and I love to have fun with pancakes like … Read more
I love this time of year and this past week my kids and I took a field trip to a pumpkin farm. We were with a local group of other homeschoolers and it was fun to see my children so excited about pumpkins. They had a hay bale maze set up with ladders, and slides … Read more
My father was the pancake cook in my house when I was a kid. He made the best pancakes ever, but his pancakes were the plain round pancakes. I love pancakes and I adore breakfast food in general. I love to make special breakfasts for my kids once in a while just because or to … Read more
As a mother, one of my goals is to raise fabulous little cooks and bakers so when they leave the nest they can create healthy and delicious meals. I grew up watching my mom and dad drive through the drive through, but I never learned how to cook. Cooking and baking is a fun event … Read more
I love tomatoes they are one of my favorite foods. I love to eat tomatoes in salads, with a little salt right off the plant, in sauces, but my favorite way to eat tomatoes is in soup. Growing up my mom made grilled cheese sandwiches and out of a can tomato soup. I thought it … Read more
Can summer really be officially over? I feel like I should have done more with my kids or gone more places, but then again I am so excited for Fall. I love this time of year with the cooler temperatures, the color changes in the leaves and all those glorious yummy food to eat and … Read more
My hubby and I usually plant an enormous garden. To us it is fun spending hours and hours maintaining the garden, and then canning or freezing everything that grows out of it. I tried to garden this year on my deck, because having a new baby I did not have the time to keep up … Read more