Today’s breakfast is most cost-effective at the end of summer when the six zucchini plants you put in because you couldn’t quite believe some of them wouldn’t die all bear zucchini…and more zucchini…and more zucchini. Or if you simply have me as a neighbor and must deal with me ditching zucchini on your doorstep when […]
5 Days of No-Cereal Breakfasts: Day 3
Today’s exciting, unique, and original no-cereal breakfast that is guaranteed to rock your world was… pancakes. Yep. That’s it. Just pancakes. But we don’t normally have them during the week and they fit our cheap, no-cereal criteria and so here we are with our pancakes. I’m discovering that this breakfast challenge is requiring me to […]
Egg Breakfast Recipes
When the kids are on vacation, we try to slow down around here. They no longer have to scarf down a box of cereal, hurry up, get ready, find their shoes, and get out of the house. We can relax. We can spend a little time making breakfast. We can make it special. Modern Mrs. […]
Baked Oatmeal Recipe
Can we talk breakfast for a minute? It’s my favorite. I could honestly, actually, live on nothing but breakfast foods all the long day every day forever. French toast. Pancakes. Cinnamon rolls. Eggs. All those lovely, glorious carbs and fatty things like bacon and…just…yum. I promise you, of all the food rules out there, the […]
Rules for Summer Vacation
The following list is not all-inclusive and will most certainly be added to as summer continues:1.) If you are climbing the tree in the backyard and I can look you in the eye from the second floor window, you are too high.2.) Never again fill your cup from the ice dispenser with so much ice […]
Reading for Peanuts — Best Books for Babies
So talking about summer reading got me thinking about the best books we’ve read around here, which inspired me to make a list. Today — our favorite baby books. 1.) Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann — about a mischievous gorilla (aren’t they all?) who causes trouble when the zookeeper locks up for the night […]
5 Ways to Encourage Summer Reading
OK, so summer’s here and every sort of teaching person at the kids’ school seems to be obsessed with making sure they read over the summer. They do, they really do. Mostly it’s not even under duress. Here’s what we do: -Enroll in summer reading programs. The kids love getting free prizes. And since the […]
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