As if any of us need extra disasters, challenges or roadblocks right now, here they come anyway. At our house, it was the oven. My husband, cradling a raw chicken in his hands, hit the pre-heat button and heard something go POP! And the oven died. He is the handyman type, also the web-savvy type. If things break, he tracks down the hoses and [...]
Today’s treat was an excellent grandkid project. In fact, my kids perfected No-Bake Cookies in their tweens. I had only shown them a few kitchen tricks, and pretty soon, I woke up from a lot of Sunday naps and found gleaming chocolate patties cooling on the kitchen counter. Also, the ghosty outline of cookies they'd already eaten. The kids were bored. The kids were [...]
These Chewy Snickerdoodle Bars came together fast! It was a day I needed fast. Temperatures outside were climbing. Should have picked a cold dessert maybe? Plus, I had a trip to Costco ahead of me, and that's always time-consuming. But before I knew it, they were done! My link to the original recipe is not working, so get it from my recipe [...]
Unless you’ve been living some kind of Outlander existence for the last 50 years, you might have caught on that Mormons are big on families. Traditional ones. One mom. One dad. Some children. Some people — inside the church, actually — wish we’d shut up about it. We won’t. We don’t think we can afford to. While speaking up may be our strength, I don’t [...]
I stepped outside my usual bailiwick this week and read a middle-grade fantasy novel. In The Warble by Victoria Simcox, (I received a free copy for review purposes) young Kristina comes home from her last day of the school year with a gift from her teacher. It’s a non-descript silver ball, hardly worth the giftwrap. But then it buzzes at night, waking Kristina up. This [...]
