Midnight Snaps (Festive Cookies for New Years Eve)

December 30, 2010 By 14 Comments






My kids and I were trying to come up with some themed food for New Year’s Eve, and {JM} came up with this great idea, right off the bat:  Cookies that are designed like clocks! (Oh, to have his quick, 8 year old brain!)

Right away I started trying to figure the details, and decided to start with homemade Gingersnap Cookies.  To design them, we went with a white icing that hardens, and a bit of chocolate art.  The design process does involve some intricate detail work, but if you enjoy the creative process and have a little patience to work with, they are worth the effort!  Your party-goers will be impressed with these festive cookies, you made!… Read More

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There was more than a smile, in THIS box!

October 8, 2010 By 16 Comments






The other day, I got the surprise-of-my-life.  The kind that left me in a daze for the rest of the day.  And into the next day.  OK, seriously……I’m still kind of in a daze about it.  I don’t even know where to start with this little story.  I feel speechless, and yet, you and I both know this post will probably end up ridiculously long, once the words start flowing.

<Deep breathe.>  So, many of you know I had a birthday last Sunday.  My birthday to me is really no big deal, and never has been.  But my family always makes me feel special, and we always spend any of our birthdays together all day, doing something fun or enjoyable.  We did that, and they were all so sweet.  I had a beautiful day with them.… Read More

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Political Cookies

November 22, 2009 By 3 Comments

We have a de-LICIOUS roll recipe coming right up, submitted by a regular and loved blog reader, Paula.  But first, we just wanted to share with you some of our oldest daughter, {A}’s,  creative cookies she made last week.  (She is an ambitious baker in the making, if you don’t know.)

{A} has a very strong interest in the Kennedy Family, and has  as of late, been studying their family history in great depth.  That’s  not to say she is a fan of all of them. ; )  But, she does like who Robert F. Kennedy was.  So much so, that she made sugar cookies for his birthday on Friday, November 20th.   She thought it was a great excuse to practice her piping skills.… Read More

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{JOS}'s Birthday 'Cake' Choices

September 8, 2009 By 3 Comments

As I’ve mentioned, we all choose what we want for our birthday cakes in our family.  Up until this year, we’ve really lucked out in that, {J, O & S} have always just agreed on the same kind of cake.  So this year was a ‘first’.  They had all spent their own bouts of time flipping through their big sister’s cook books, and it seems 2 of them had seen something they wanted, and they knew exactly on which page, in which book, it was.

So this post isn’t directional recipes, per say, but a few cute ideas you may like to use for your kids, or yourself, sometime!  Good news: Birthdays are not a requirement!  An ordinary Sunday, the kickoff of a school vacation, or house cleaning being all done, are all good enough reasons for a treat!  Feel free to come up with your own reasons.  It’s really not hard to do when you’re in the mood for a treat!… Read More

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Teddy Graham Sandwich Cookies

August 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Hi blog friends!  This is {A} this time.   Mama said she has noticed we haven’t blogged any recipes of ‘real food’ in awhile, and it’s looking like we’ve been on a ‘sweets kick’ lately, so she said to let you know we’ll have some meal-related type recipes coming up soon. She just needs to think of some.  But today, I wanted to share this cookie recipe I came up with on my own.  Everyone in my family loved them when I made them, so I hope if you make them, you do too.

Teddy Graham Sandwich Cookies


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Participating Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour, Sugar, Butter, Vanilla Extract, Baking Powder, an Egg, Polaner’s Raspberry All Fruit, Salt, Hershey Chocolate Bars, and Chocolate Chip Teddy Grahams.… Read More

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Cookie Love

March 26, 2009 By 13 Comments


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Have you ever seen cookies like these?  They are called Italian Cookies, and maybe they are ordinary to you. But the very thought or sight of them, has always made my heart simply swell.

My Godmother has made these cookies for me, all of my life.  I think she makes them a lot. She may even be known for them in the lives of many people who are in her life. But it doesn’t matter.  Whenever she made them for ME, it always felt like such a  gift of her love for me.


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My Godparents are AMAZING people. Not just to me, but to anyone who knows them.  They are the essence of unshakable faith,  completely selfless sacrifice, sincere compassion, and always a lot of very unconditional love.  As Godparents, they always gave all of those gifts to me.… Read More

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One Fine Bread Maker!

February 9, 2009 By 10 Comments


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That’s MY bread maker!

He’s a fine bread maker.

And a fine bread maker, too. lol


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The bread we go through is crazy, and it’s seemed one of those things you can’t buy enough of, and it’ll go just as quick.  We’re not ‘white bread’ people either, so what we spend on bread can get….tiresome.  So a few weeks back, my hubby decided he’d try making some. After all, he makes a mean pizza dough.  And he had a good book that his parents let us have. (I think.  I’m afraid we borrowed it, and never returned it, but he says no.)  Anyway, they’re experienced…everything makers.… Read More

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Egg Bake Recipe

November 25, 2008 By 1 Comment





Here is the Egg Bake we’ve been making that some of you requested we post.  It’s quick and easy!  Promise!

Ingredients:

  • Pillsbury Crescent Rolls (in can)
  • 6 Eggs
  • 1 C Chopped ham or 5 or so cooked breakfast sausage links, diced
  • 1C Shredded Cheddar Cheese and 1 C Mozzarella
  • 1/2 C Milk





  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Beat eggs in bowl, adding a 1/2 c of milk. (Or water. Or 1/2 C each!)
  3. Pop open crescent rolls can, unroll it, and lay into 9×13 baking dish-pressing edges together. (No need to spray or grease.)
  4. Sprinkle ham or sausage (or both!) onto crescent dough in pan.

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Tea Time for Our Lady of Sorrows Feast Day

September 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment





Over the weekend we decided to look around in The Christmas Tree Shops. If you don’t have one of those near you, I feel bad for you.  It’s such a great, affordable place, and I always come out with more than I planned on getting. So I try not to go in often. : )  But this time we all went in – and being the season to sell autumn decorations and goods, I had to control myself with every turn.  However…..we did let the kids each choose a mini loaf ceramic pan, with the intention of letting them bake some mini loaves on Sunday.… Read More

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Rumpledoodles

April 21, 2008 By 1 Comment

Heffalump Rumpledoodles.  These things are quite possibly the tastiest little crumpets on the face of the earth!

We first heard of Rumpledoodles when the little one’s Auntie L gave them this charming Winnie the Pooh DVD movie titled Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, for their 3rd birthday.  In the movie, the Hundred Acre Wood gang decide to go out and hunt the much feared, and never-seen Heffalumps they have been hearing out in the woods.  Roo went off on his own hunt, and has a run-in with a baby Heffalump, when he is suddenly ‘tagged you’re it!’.  The adorable little Heffalump, named “Lumpy”, and Little Roo

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