We love banana bread, if only because it uses up those bananas that get a little too squishy for kids to want to eat (just like we adore zucchini bread for it’s ability to use up the zucchini that grow too big or too prolifically!). Katy at Sycamore Stirrings shared a great banana [...]

Last year for Mother’s Day Josie (then barely 4) whipped up a special drink for me, and all summer we drank pitchers of our ‘Mother’s Day drink.’ It’s totally simple and delicious, and not so sweet that it isn’t refreshing (don’t get me wrong, I love me some lemonade, but it can be just [...]

We’re feeling a bit behind today since daddio is out of town and we’re not even trying to pick up the slack. Here are a few things that I’ve been meaning to share:

Tiny Morsels shares another terrifically fun use for our under-appreciated waffle iron (mmm, I’m thinking that the melty almond [or peanut!] butter [...]

Every afternoon once Jasper wakes up from his nap we usually gather in the kitchen for a little snack (he’s a slow waker-upper!). We’ve been through the usual ideas (apple and peanut butter, celery and peanut butter, carrots and dip, a little quesadilla, crackers and cheese….) 327 times and I’ve been in the market [...]

Okay, maybe saying ‘healthy food’ is wrong. My kids, at least, will eat a lot of healthy foods. But when things aren’t going down well at the dinner table we sometimes break out the sprinkles to make things seem more palatable. Sure, you have to be judicious (steak and sprinkles?), but for [...]

In our house love means cookies. Bad day? I’ll make you some oatmeal cookies. Going on a trip? You’ll find some chocolate chip cookies in your carry on. Cold, rainy day? Let’s make some gingersnaps!
Things to keep in mind when baking cookies with little ones:

I usually try to [...]

So you now know that Adelaide (the youngest member of the collective) is totally into pickles. I don’t know that I would’ve let Josie love pickles as one of her first handful of foods (thanks to my maternally overprotective instinct), but daddio and I have encouraged our kids try a wide variety of strange [...]

This afternoon Josie and I enjoyed some rare time with just the two of us (go naps!) and whipped up some granola to go with our Brown Cow yogurt (the cream top is so delicious!). This is a great recipe to do with kids since all of the measuring is so approximate (handful of [...]

A couple of people have asked me* why on earth I would a two year old or even my five year old cut things up. They could injure themselves! Knives are dangerous! Since I mostly agree with this, and like my kids with all their digits intact, I gifted them each with [...]