When Dave and I lived in Virginia some kind friends of his parents invited us to dinner. They served such delicious banana bread for dinner that I had to scribble down the recipe speedy-quick. It’s become one of those recipes that made it into my “special” recipe book (back HERE) on the very same little…
We don’t generally have white bread around. When I bake bread I generally go to my “go to” recipe (here) because we love it so much and my girls have become excellent wheat grinders. But my neighbor gave us a loaf of her awesome bread a while back and my kids fell in love with…
The best thing about having family traditions is that kids hold you to them. Whether there’s craziness swirling around you or not. So you make time. And that time is magical. The kids asked pretty much every single day if we were doing that darn gingerbread house so finally, we did.
I love traditional-gingerbread-house-making.So do these guys:Lucy was especially serious about the task this year…she was all about the patterns and careful candy placement (and was so good at not eating it…what a good girl).(Contrary to what this picture depicts, Claire and Grace were pleased as punch about gingerbread-house-making…)
Thank you so much for all the wonderful comments about hard work yesterday. I’m even more determined to stick these kids’ noses to the grindstone. A few people asked what we do for allowance and all that money stuff and I have much to say about that…soon. (I still have to figure out how I…
There will come a time in my life when baking home-made bread will be such a regular occurrence in our home that it will not warrant taking incessant pictures of the finished product. Until then, please endure:I get excited about this stuff. So does my little helper. She really did help. It was a bonding…
I did it.I dusted off the wheat grinder and finally made bread (those who brought us the most delicious home-made bread after I wrote about how much I wanted to make it here will be glad to know I finally got my act together…thanks again by the way for that!!). I’ve got no excuses not…
I’d like to introduce you to Tonia’s oatmeal banana muffins. Because when you find a good thing you want to make sure you keep the recipe handy…and also share it with your friends. Especially when it’s a “treat” that maybe is a teeny bit more healthy of a treat?? Hmmm…not sure about that, but worth…
Dave and I spent one day in Brussels, Belgium as a layover with Paul and Angela en route home from Sierra Leone. We arrived from Africa, incredibly bleary-eyed at 5am and had to wait a little for the sun to rise and the city to come alive. This was a pretty huge contrast to Sierra…