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Do you ever cook with your kids? My seven-year-old loves to help us cook, so I have gradually been giving him more responsibilities in the kitchen. It started with him helping us add ingredients or stir. Now, with supervision, I sometimes let him do the cooking. So much can be…

If you spend just a few minutes poking around my blog, you will learn a few things about me. I like to cook, travel, read, and I love cats! I come from a cat-loving family, and I am a firm believer that a house is not a home without a cat.…

 This post is something I have wanted to write for a while now. There is something about the contents of someone’s purse that I find interesting. What people carry with them all the time can tell you a lot about them.  If you were to dump out your purse, what would…

Here we are with the holidays in full swing. Shopping, baking, wrapping, and decorating. Who has time to cook three square meals a day? Not this girl. Between three birthdays, the holidays themselves, and work, I am always looking for ways to get some time back and one of those…

This holiday season I was thinking of flavors that would put me in the holiday spirit when it came to me. Not to be confused with a 1990s grunge band, pear jam is a delicious gift to give for the holidays. With notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and clove, this…

I am not a morning person. I have never been and I probably never will be. But being a mom, I don’t have much of a choice but to get up and get it together. I have a first grader to get to school and work to get done while…

One of my favorite things about moving to Colorado is discovering Sprouts Farmers Market. They don’t have Sprouts in the Northeast and since moving here, it has quickly become my favorite store for fresh produce and bulk foods. Now it’s also my favorite for my personal care needs since discovering…

Being raised by a hippie environmentalist, my ideas on conservation and the products I use were formed at a very young age. My childhood home was always filled with natural foods and personal care products like Tom’s of Maine toothpaste, so as I grew older I bought many of those things…

  When your kids get home from school do they run in the house, drop their bag then raid the pantry? If your kids are anything like mine, they act like they haven’t eaten in a week. Of course, what they’re after isn’t always something healthy because what’s the fun in…