We are having one of the craziest introductions into Spring. We have had bursts of warm 70 degree weather since February. But these glorious days of sunshine and blue skies keeping getting followed by ice storms and dips of cooler temperatures. This week has been yet another dip of cooler temperatures. Slightly exasperated at first, it turned out to be a…
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Knife Skills for Little Hands
Have you ever considered when to start letting your child use a knife? If they are in the kitchen with you often, then the opportunities and requests to help probably are there too. I am a strong proponent for having kids in the kitchen. There are certainly plenty of times when the kids can’t join me in the kitchen and…
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Three Simple Rules
You know how you have that friend who you really look up to as an example of grace and wisdom in her home? I’m not talking about having delusions that she has everything perfectly put together and can’t do anything wrong. But rather, her life is a testimony to faithfulness and her speech is marked by kindness and wisdom. I…
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Easter Round-up
I’m not to best “plan ahead” kind of mom. While I may pin a few crafts on Pinterest, most of them will not make it to fruition. A week ago I had thought about doing one of those potting soil, empty tomb crafts. I thought maybe we’d actually do it this year. And again, time just gets away from me….
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One Whole Chicken…Five Lunches
I remember very well the first time I tried to tackle cooking a whole chicken. At the time, most of my cooking involved food that was packaged in cardboard boxes and metal cans, or food that was conveniently frozen in plastic bags. This was how I grew up and I was just doing what I knew. But I was also a new wife, excited to learn to…
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Healthy Animal Crackers
There’s not much of a story to tell you about these cookies. I mean I could go on about how much my kids like animals. Or about how we are like everybody else and could eat cookies all day long. Or about how this recipe is whole wheat, no refined sugar, and no processed oils. But I won’t share about…
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