Time for a Date? Are you dating your spouse? It’s a new year and maybe one of your resolutions is to date your spouse more, or maybe it should be. Despite what many may believe, your date life should not end when you get married. In fact, it should be more like the beginning. However, life can get busy when
Dating Your Spouse
Dairy Free Cocoa Cookies
The kiddos and I recently made these dairy free cocoa cookies and they turned out quite delicious! Due to different allergies in our kids, I often have to think outside the box a bit when baking desserts, so that they can all partake. These yummy little cookies are soft and have great cocoa flavor, tasting similar to a homemade brownie.
How to Make Rock Candy
For a science experiment we recently tried our hand at making sugar crystals, also known as rock candy. This is not too challenging, and kids love it for obvious reasons, (sugar). Whether you’re teaching about crystal formation from various compounds or you just like candy, this is a fun activity. Ingredients: Sugar (obviously) A measuring cup, plate and a pot
Toffee and Caramel Chocolate Cake
This is an incredibly delicious homemade toffee and caramel chocolate cake! I sometimes prepare this cake as a date night treat for my husband and I. I make one of my homemade chocolate cakes for this recipe, but you could use a box mix to save time, though I can’t guarantee the same heavenly results. Ingredients: One Chocolate cake prepared
Delicious Chicken Caesar Salad
Here is how I make a delicious chicken Caesar salad at home. I love to make fresh salads using home grown ingredients, but of course it is possible to make delicious salads with store bought ingredients that are still better than what you would find in many restaurants. Besides that, when you cook from home, you have the luxury of
Little by Little
Family Update Little by little fall is fading and a new year is fast approaching. Around these parts that means the cold winter is well on its way. My family will tell you I’m not a fan of the cold, they would be right. However, I do appreciate observing each season, I just get tired of some seasons sooner than
Easy Herb Roasted Potatoes
Here is an easy herb roasted potatoes recipe. I love experimenting with potatoes, however, many times I find that the simplest of recipes often become some of our favorites. Deliciousness does not have to be complicated. Ingredients: 4 medium-large white or red potatoes (makes a side dish for about 4-6) Italian seasoning Himalayan pink salt (if using regular white
Lava Lamps Project
What is it? Here is a fun, making your own lava lamps project to help you learn/teach about density. We got this project idea from our “Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics” course textbook by Apologia.” This is an easy experiment and though they don’t light up like real lava lamps (like one of my kiddos was expecting), the effect
A Time for Change
Family Update: It’s been a couple of months now since we’ve sent an update. This one is titled “A Time for Change” because, well change just seems to be in the air. When I last wrote an update we were getting ready to take our daughter to college out of state and though change of that magnitude is never easy,
Strawberry Ice Cream Cake
I was in search of an easy ice cream cake for my son’s birthday and came across this strawberry ice cream cake recipe online at thenovicechefblog.com. Read my final review at the end and what I would do differently next time. My plan was to make a homemade cake, but after some kids started feeling ill a few days prior