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31 Non Sandwich School Lunch Ideas

August 12, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

31 Non Sandwich School Lunch Ideas

Are your kids back to school yet? We just finished our first day. I always have mixed emotions – the freedom of summer is wonderful and we love getting out and exploring. But in reality, we don’t do that every day…and the days we don’t often have plenty of bickering and too much screen time […]

Filed Under: Kids' activities, recipes, seasonal Tagged With: back to school, cooking with kids, kids, lunch recipe, recipe, school

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 Snow Candy

January 7, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

How to Make Snow Candy

So it’s been snowing here. From what I hear on the news, it’s snowing everywhere — even Florida, maybe? No? I thought I heard that somewhere. But here in Colorado, it most definitely has been. Don’t let these pictures fool you. Our snowy days are one-quarter loads of fun sledding and laughing and hot cocoa […]

Filed Under: Kids' activities, recipes Tagged With: cooking with kids, indoor activities for kids, kids, kids activities, kids play

7 Fun Brazilian Foods to Try With Your Kids

August 30, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

7 Fun Brazilian Foods to Try With Your Kids

I’ve been craving Brazilian food lately. This is odd, because we don’t really cook it here. But after the Olympics, I had friends who stayed in Brazil and took lots of pictures of their food, which made me jealous. Around the same time, I met a group of bloggers at Five on Black, and that […]

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11 Things to Do Over Spring Break

March 16, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

11 Things to Do Over Spring Break

This post contains affiliate links to stuff we love! I always start out spring break strong. We get up, we usually go somewhere fun the first day or two…and by the end of the week, we’re hanging out in our pjs until 10am and watching more TV than I like to admit. So I made […]

Filed Under: Kids' activities Tagged With: books, cooking with kids, dessert, indoor activities for kids, kids, kids activities, recipe, recipes

Banana Chai Smoothie

February 7, 2016 By Laura 11 Comments

Banana Chai Smoothie

How to  esplain the banana chai smoothie? I’m a smoothie girl, but in general I’m a 3-ingredient fruity, yogurty, juicy kind of smoothie girl (unless, of course, you can put some chocolate in it. Then I’m that kind of smoothie girl.) But I’m not a complicated, spice-putting kind of smoothie girl. Until now, I mean. Until. Now. […]

Filed Under: 31 Days, recipes Tagged With: breakfast, cooking with kids, drink, drink recipe, kids, recipe, smoothie, snack

11 Delicious Fun Fondue Recipes

January 21, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

11 Delicious Fun Fondue Recipes

We’re fondue fanatics. I think I may have created a monster when I casually mentioned to my husband that we should get a fondue set, because he loves all things vintage. Now, a few years later, we have at least six vintage fondue sets in an array of ugly ’70’s colors. Yeay. Someone call the […]

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Easy Overnight Oats

August 19, 2015 By Laura 1 Comment

Easy Overnight Oats

We started back to school this week. And my husband works at 3am. And while these two facts may seem unrelated — they both point to a need for some easy, quick, healthy breakfasts around here.

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Peach Strawberry Ice Cream

August 5, 2015 By Laura Leave a Comment

When we were on vacation about a month ago, we made this peach strawberry ice cream…and it was gooooood, if I do say so myself. I’m over on 123 Homeschool 4 Me sharing the entire recipe — come check it out. It’s some good stuff (and a little healthier for you than your average ice cream, […]

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How to Help Your Picky Eater

July 11, 2015 By Laura 3 Comments

How to Help Your Picky Eater

Hello, everyone! We’re currently on vacation, hanging out at beautiful Lake Tahoe and getting ready for a wedding in the family (again. My kids are pros at this now. They could flower-girl and ring-bear for a living. But we love it every time, and at least one of my girls is delighted that each occasion requires […]

Filed Under: Kids' activities Tagged With: cooking with kids, kid, kids

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