I’m so excited to share my finds this week, but even more excited to hear about yours! If you’ve posted any links on your blog this week, please share a link so we can see what you’ve discovered, and if you’re blog-free but have something fun to share leave a comment. I can’t [...]

Marie at Make and Takes posted last week about ways that she encourages independence in her kids.  I’ll admit that I sometimes have to let go of my clean-house-hangups, but I try to give my little ones age-appropriate opportunities to serve themselves rather than continuing to depend on me for, well, everything!  As they’ve gotten [...]

I remember a few treats from my childhood, and a favorite is definitely monkey bread. It’s a simple treat and can be made using frozen bread dough (if you’re short on time or, ahem, skill) and I would have to say that it’s not altogether *that* bad for you. Once you’re comfortable with the [...]

I’m so excited to be a contributor to a new channel at Blissfully Domestic:

You’ll find tons of fun ideas to share with your kids from a bunch of my favorite crafty bloggers, and today I’m sharing a post with a recipe for my very favorite thick, chewy gingersnaps.  They’re a particularly easy recipe to let [...]

If there’s one thing I truly believe in, it’s a hot breakfast. I love breakfast cereal (don’t tell my husband about the secret Cookie Crisp stash!), but it makes a better late-night snack than breakfast. All carbs. I need protein to start my day right. (Or oatmeal. Oatmeal’s good too, [...]

This afternoon Josie and I enjoyed some rare time with just the two of us (go naps!) and mixed up a fresh batch of granola to go with our yogurt. This is nice recipe to pull out when the kids are helping since all of the measuring is so approximate (handful of this, dump in [...]

I’m so excited to be hosting Muffin Tin Monday for Katy at Sycamore Stirrings while she explores her future home of Luxembourg (I was so far off in my guesses…New Hampshire? A Canadian Province? Nothing nearly so exotic as Luxembourg!).

Today I made a tin for my two oldest to share (although the baby [...]

If you haven’t been reading the Amy’s Notebook posts on Mom Advice, you’ve got to have a peek.  Last month she passed along a link to a recipe at 50s Housewife for a super-easy cake made from ice cream sandwiches.  After completely failing my previous attempt at an ice cream cake, this totally lit the [...]

We’ve just arrived home from an, er, extended vacation to my parents’ house only to realize that our vegetable garden has kept going without us. The tomato plants are absolutely staggering under the weight of red and green fruits, the rhubarb is a huge mass of stalks and leaves, giant zucchini have magically appeared, [...]

When my mom was in town a few weeks ago we stopped in at one of my favorite thrift stores. As we browsed the kid-clothes my daughter found her heart’s desire: the Easy Bake Oven. I wasn’t so sure; she’s been cooking with me since she was big enough to hold a whisk [...]