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Delicious Orange Chicken Spring Rolls Are a Fun Snack to Make With Kids

June 18, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

Delicious Orange Chicken Spring Rolls Are a Fun Snack to Make With Kids

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of  Tai Pei Food. All opinions are my own and are truthful.  I have a hard time planning meals and snacks during the summer. It seems like the opposite should be true. During the school year, we’re running every which way – to scouts and sports […]

Filed Under: recipes Tagged With: cooking with kids, kids, kids activities, sponsored, summer

How To Make Corn Broth

June 11, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

How To Make Corn Broth

Oooooh, I do love corn season. I am a cheap grocery shopper in general, but I’d mortgage my house to buy the first batch of corn each summer. This was one of the things I took for granted in California. We didn’t know we were spoiled with our produce until we came to Colorado where my […]

Filed Under: recipes Tagged With: chili recipe, garden, lunch, recipe, recipes

Fun Hamburger Trivia for the Summer

May 30, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

Fun Hamburger Trivia for the Summer

We’re almost done with the school year! 🎉🎉🎉 The kids are excited, I’M excited – I think we’re all ready to be finished right about now. These last few weeks, everything seems to ramp up to a fever pitch, and by the time we’re done, we all want to collapse in a large heap and do […]

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Make these campfire Girl Scout swaps for your next event

May 29, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

Make these campfire Girl Scout swaps for your next event

The danger of doing anything with older kids is that you’re automatically volunteered to do the same things with their younger siblings. It is for this reason that I find myself the leader of both my older daughter’s Cadette Girl Scout troop, and my younger daughter’s Daisy troop. I don’t mind, actually. I find it’s […]

Filed Under: crafting, Kids' activities Tagged With: girl scouts, scouting

Delicious Cranberry Chocolate Protein Bites

May 16, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

Delicious Cranberry Chocolate Protein Bites

I’ve been baking cookies since I was at least ten years old. I might have been even younger, but by the time I was ten, I was baking them on my own — nice, warm cookies for winter. Nice, warm cookies in the middle of summer. I love to bake, and I’ll do it anytime […]

Filed Under: recipes, Sponsored Tagged With: dessert, recipe, recipes, snack, summer

Knitting Journals to Keep Track of All Your Projects

May 14, 2018 By Laura 9 Comments

Knitting Journals to Keep Track of All Your Projects

About a year ago, I started keeping a reading journal. I’m in a book club, and I like talking about books with my mom and my friends and I found myself quite often saying things like “I just read this great book. I remember thinking you would really like it. It’s about this woman who…” […]

Filed Under: crafting Tagged With: knit, knitting

5 Ways to Improve Your Air Quality Right Now

May 11, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

5 Ways to Improve Your Air Quality Right Now

This post was sponsored by Moms Clean Air Force.  All opinions are my own.  When my daughter was little, she had breathing troubles. We had a standing weekly appointment with her pediatrician. We had a routine and a game we always played when I gave her regular nebulizer treatments. She had three or four different […]

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How to Work a Long Tail Cast On (Continental Cast On)

May 9, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

How to Work a Long Tail Cast On (Continental Cast On)

I share a lot of knitting patterns here. Baby blanket knitting patterns are one of my favorite things because 1) babies are adorable and anything and everything made for babies to use or wear is pretty much adorable and 2) you don’t have to measure blankets. You don’t really even have to worry about the […]

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Kids Activities: Adventures After Dark

May 7, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

Kids Activities: Adventures After Dark

  My kids always have a hard time adjusting to summer. Actually, that’s not true. They love summer. They love swimming and hiking and reading and doing kids activities (and playing video games. I won’t lie to you.) They have a hard time, however, understanding why their mother would possibly attempt to put them to bed when […]

Filed Under: Kids' activities Tagged With: kid, kids, kids activities, kids and nature, kids play

Delicious Citrus Grilled Chicken and the Perfect Summer Meal

May 2, 2018 By Laura 2 Comments

Delicious Citrus Grilled Chicken and the Perfect Summer Meal

I’m so excited that it’s finally getting nice out here. We love to grill, and there’s nothing better than sitting outside at the table, having a nice, leisurely dinner, and relaxing while the kids tear apart the backyard afterward. Actually, we love a good grilled meal year-round, and my husband has been known to fire […]

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