My 4 year old is the best egg cracker around. She loves to help me out in the kitchen. She lugs her stool in and sets it down as close to me as she can get. In her sweet...
Each of my children, by the time he or she was nine years old, wanted to know how to make money. “Like, a REAL job (insert eye roll here), Mom.” Perhaps it is the natural result of being the youngest...
In what has become a world of so much negativity, I have been trying to incorporate more positivity into my children's daily schedule. Don't get me wrong. I'm not going to reward bad behavior, and I'm not the type...
Eating healthy meals is a goal that we all have. Did you know that the recommended servings of fruits & vegetables per day is 7-13? My family eats healthy for the most part, but there is NO way that...
Every day I open one of my social media accounts and find some post all about "Mom Hacks," or ways to make your life easier. Some are useful, especially writing dosages on the medicine bottle with a sharpie or...
Every year, it’s the same. By the time our Ohio winter is waning, I am deep in the throes of a fresh vegetable craving. March is often so cold that my garden still seems like a distant dream. The...
It seems like freezer meal cooking and crockpot meals are all the rage. A simple search on Pinterest and there are hundreds of recipes to choose from. There are also companies that sell products, host parties, and provide recipes...
Before you roll your eyes and start thinking "Stepford Wife," LIAR, or Show-Off, just hear me out! I have (at times through gritted teeth) truly come to love dirty dishes...along with my husband's dirty socks on the floor...and even...
A few weeks ago, my loving husband went out to grab a last-minute dinner and tea for his pregnant wife. He had just gotten home from a twelve-hour day to find me exhausted on the couch by first-trimester-nausea, with three kids...
What makes a party a party? Friends, drinks, and food—especially DIP. Some of my favorite dips are the classics—ranch dip with veggies, spinach dip with Hawaiian Bread, queso with tortilla chips. But sometimes I get adventurous (read: too lazy...
In + Around Cincinnati
Cincinnati Spring Break Staycation {Oh, the Places We’ll Go}
This year for spring break, we are planning on staying home, minus a weekend at the in-laws' to celebrate Easter. We are looking forward...
