We recently planted our very first chef’s garden on our little farm here on the prairie. We have wanted to for a few years now, but finally have a summer that I’m not knocked up so we decided to go for it. James and Little Chef tilled up a nice spot just North […]
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Baked Chicken Sourdough
I have just decided that raising small children is a lot like being addicted to a hardcore drug. It has amazing ups, and life threatening downs, and you end up doing things in public you never every thought you would.
Last days as a duo
Today I am really feeling nostalgic for my last days as a mother of one. Maybe it’s because Little Chef has been the vision of happy perfection today {I better not jinx myself and he ends up a terror this afternoon}, or maybe it’s my due date with #2 fast approaching, but I feel like […]
4 H
This year I have had the opportunity to help teach the local 4H club foods club. When I first signed up I assumed it would be fairly basic lessons, with a couple kids whose parent’s signed them up. Boy was I wrong. The little crew we had sign up are quite a hilarious mix of […]
Cheese Sticks and a bad attitude
Yesterday Little Chef was a grumpy little thing. I now realize it was because he was coming down with something because he had a case of the pukeys this morning. He had to call his Tante Lexi and tell her all about it because apparently that’s what we do in this family. Monday morning, I […]
Caramels
Every Christmas {yes it’s well in to the new year and everyone’s diets and I’m still talking Christmas.} my family picks names and makes a gift for the name we pick. It’s creative, means a heck of a lot less spending, and there is something so beautiful and special about a hand made gift. We […]
Christmas in Review
It was a holiday season of epic proportions. Little Chef cooked about 14 new dishes, mommy ate more than her fair share, and James was damn near entering a diabetic coma from sugar over consumption. All in all a great success. For Christmas I made little chef a knife and tool roll and we bought […]
Top Secret
there is nothing that piques my interest like a top secret recipe stowed away with the young heroine on her journey across oceans to a new life in a strange land
Buttery Carbs as Therapy
This morning little chef woke up at 4:30 am, and after hushing him back to sleep (because under no circumstances was I ready to start my cheerio throwing day at 4:30) I laid in bed unable to fall back asleep. Suddenly in the dark the weight of the world came crashing down on my chest […]
Barf Happens
Let’s start out by me saying, hello. Remember me? I’m that lady that used to make you laugh or cry a couple times a week. Lately I have been a bit quiet…. let me tell you why. As I hope you remember I am pregnant again with another one of James’ love goblins, and let […]