Tis the season for looking back, looking forward, looking inward and looking upward. The backdrop for so much of this activity, as for so many of life’s moments, is food. Again this year in our home we’ve been blessed with an incredible abundance of good food, and eaten our way through ups, downs, and everyday […]
Archives for December 2014
Merry Christmas!
From my family to yours, wishing you a very merry Christmas and happy new year! May you all find peace, love and the abiding joy only God can bring in the holiday season and beyond.
Monday Moments: Games Night
Carl and I are both fans of games, and we want to instill that love in our children because family game nights should be in everyone’s future, right? Trouble is, I have terrible patience with adults who aren’t quick at taking their turns and keeping the game moving. It turns out this impatience extends to playing […]
Roasted Vegetable Medley with Bacon
Does anyone else find themselves already craving the veggies we know we’re all gonna be putting on our meal plans come New Years resolution time? I love my sweets as much as the next gal (ok, probably considerably more) but the balance gets a little off at this time of year. I’ve eaten Nanaimo bars for breakfast, […]
Chewy Gingerbread White Chocolate Blondies
I feel like you probably think I’m the “homemade gift giving” type. Truth is, we eat pretty much everything I make ourselves, and not just because I’m terrible at sharing. I have an unending fear of giving someone an edible gift with a hair in it, a very real possibility 3.5 months post-baby. Also, the […]
Monday Moments
Some things don’t immediately seem like the best idea. Exersaucers full of offensively bright colours, blaring sounds, and surprising rattles, for instance. What have you done to me, Mother? Other things are obviously very good ideas. Bake exchanges with amazing baker friends, for instance. You survey those snacks and imagine what “sugar” could possibly taste like, […]
Creamy Garlic Chicken with Bacon Alfredo
Say what?! I went and took a picture of a dinner recipe, which means you know you need to make it. If you like pasta, that is. I hosted a bake exchange last night that resulted in 12 kinds of amazingness in my freezer that I’m trying not to think about so it will last longer than […]
Mint Chocolate Nanaimo Bars
I should really know better by now than to start my Christmas baking anytime besides the day before Christmas. I had the best of intentions when I made these no-bake beauties a couple weeks ago. A jump on my holiday baking, I thought. I’ll bake for the freezer, I said. I need to test a new […]
Monday Moments
I feel like I don’t take nearly enough pictures of baby #4. For the past couple months he’s had mega cradle cap hampering his cute-from-all-angles-ness, but with that under control I figured I would be able to up my photo quantity pretty rapidly. What I forgot to take into account: moths-to-a-flame syndrome. One picture of my […]
#BeEggsquisite: Gingerbread Sweet Potato Muffins
This holiday season, I have a total obsession with gingerbread. I can’t stop. Won’t stop. I’m craving gingerbread like nobody’s business, making gingerbread treats, and watching them disappear to mere crumbs at the corners of my mouth before anyone else in the family has time to realize I baked something. Taking this compulsive consumption into account, gingerbread […]
Monday Moments: Reflections
Theo: Bee. BEEE! Kristopher: Yes? (He knows his little brother calls him Bee :)) Theo: BOWWWWWWL. Ooooooooh. Kristopher: *snatch* Let me see that! What’s in there? I can’t see anything. *gives it back* Theo: Ahahahahahaha. ME. Me: Yes, Theo, it’s a mirror of the finest distorting sort. Theo: Yeeeee-up! Small things continue to amuse small minds :) […]