It’s December Daily time again.  I enjoyed this project so much last year that despite life’s chaos right now, I’m going for it again.  It brought so much to the holiday season last year.  I knew I needed to keep it simple so I created a basic design to be printed at home on 4X6 photo paper.  This year is all about making these simple for me. I don’t have real internet access these days (hoping that changes next week,...

This recipe came from my childhood best friend Caryn’s mom.  We always loved it.  At home, we called it Fried Worms because we loved the book How to Eat Fried Worms so much, didn’t really have a great name for this casserole.  (We thought of the poppy seeds as worm eyes- doesn’t that make you want to make this recipe! Just saying. . .  It’s what we called it. . . the imagination of kids, right?) The thing about...

Tonight, I’m making an old favorite- Lasagna.  In fact, Cody likes this better than frozen lasagna.  It couldn’t be easier to make.  The recipe actually comes from a children’s cookbook.  It doesn’t require cooking the noodles and requires ordinary ingredients.    Print Add this recipe to ZipList! Lasagna: So Easy A Child Can Make It 1 hour, 15 minutes Yield:...

Most years, I don’t get a birthday cake and somehow that bothers me. This year, when I told Cody about it, he set out to fix it. We raided the pantry to see what kinds of cake mixes I had and there was Red Velvet Cake. So, Cody set out to make it. I had to laugh when he asked if he needed to split the eggs. It reminded me of just how many things we make from scratch in my home. But, of course, I told him no- it’s a box cake. ...

January’s Gone, but not my One Little Word.  Home.  In fact, I feel a bit renewed as a new month begins.  This month should mean less travel and more time at home.  I’m already tuning in to developing some better routines here at home.  Some observations from January: 1) I knew this year would I’d be spending more nights waiting for Cody to come home.  But bright and early New Year’s Day, my One Little Word and the...

Each year, Ali Edwards and a bunch of other folks choose a word for the year.  It’s kind of a resolution, a goal, and something to focus on in the coming year.  I usually think about doing it but for the past few years I’ve had a hard time settling in on a word- thinking hard about what that word might be even into January- and never really settling on just one word for the year.  This year, as I’ve had my word for 2011...