There’s no better way to combat chilly weather than a cup of hot cocoa. If your kids are like mine, you go through a lot of it during the fall and winter months. Regardless if my kids are cold from playing outside, or from attending to farm chores, they enjoy a cup of hot cocoa. […]
Vegetable Beef Soup
Happy New Year! Our new year has begun with beautiful gently falling snow and bloody cold temperatures to go with it. I don’t like to be cold. While so many are talking about resolutions for health and fitness, I shiver at their suggested cold salad recipes. Although I am ready to get my family out […]
My Secret Drop Chip Cookie Recipe
There’s a lot of cookie baking activity going on in my kitchen this week. With an upcoming county fair, the boys are practicing their independent baking skills. County fairs can have some brutal cookie competition, so the boys are using my secret drop chip cookie recipe. The best part of this recipe is simplicity. I […]
Shrimp & Veggies with fitness update on the side
Do you ever get so busy that you draft a blog post and never publish it?!? Okay, so maybe it’s just me. We had an exciting time in the sun last week. The weather was amazing and we enjoyed every opportunity to be out in it. While most of our adventures are sitting in blogger […]
A whole family transitioning to whole foods
Organics has been a big topic of discussion recently at our house. What?!? Not every couple sits around discussing the chemicals used to grow our produce or to process our packaged foods?!? Yeah, okay, so we’re strange like that. As I shared in a prior post about setting New Year goals, we have been taking […]