I feel like I baked treats the entire month of December! Today I decided I was done. Most everything I baked went to other homes and that’s a good thing. There are a few things I wanted for here and my husband had one request, so I’ll share those three things here with you. First, [...]
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The Best Gingerbread Cookies
My kids made gingerbread cookies with their grandmother today. It was a pretty big production. The kitchen got a little messy. But the kids didn’t get too crabby. Chloe just had to roll out her own dough. I will cherish these pictures for years to come. We let Andrew decorate the burnt ones. He didn’t [...]
Chocolate Turkey
I found these chocolate turkeys at our local Shopko store and thought they would make cute place settings for the kiddies during a Thanksgiving dinner. Then again, do the kiddies really need chocolate and pumpkin pie? I’ll probably give my kids theirs early so they don’t get too overloaded on turkey day. Amazon has these [...]
The Best Pizza Ever- “Pizza Vesuvio” from Francis Ford Coppola’s Restaurant Rustic (via Food & Wine)
I can honestly say that the recipes in Food & Wine are the most useful recipes of any food magazine I subscribe to. Every month I choose one recipe from my most recent issue to blog about. This month I chose this, Pizza Vesuvio With the Works from Francis Ford Coppola’s restaurant Rustic. The picture [...]
Book Review: Program or Be Programmed By Douglas Rushkoff
While browsing for a good read the other day that would both make me think and empower me in my line(s) of work, I came across this book by Douglas Rushkoff. It’s called Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age and is published by OR Books. The title caught my eye since [...]


