Category: Personal
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Make Ahead Recipes for Late Summer Picnics & Busy Fall Nights!
Hi! I wanted to share this group of recipes with you as inspiration for your end of summer and fall picnics as well as easy side ideas when you are bringing a dish to a backyard gathering. Lastly, save this come back to this post because many of the items are great for early fall meals when…
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Mother Daughter Book Club: All of a Kind Family
We brought back our summer Mother Daughter book club with the fun historical fiction, All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor. All of a Kind Family is about a family of five American Jewish girls growing up in a tenement building on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1912. They find…
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Sheet Pan Pesto Fish and Veggies
Who wants a dinner that comes together with 5 ingredients in about 30 minutes with little to no cleanup!! This sheet pan pesto fish and veggies recipe is super versatile and can be made with salmon or any light white fish (tilapia, flounder…). Additionally, you can choose from a variety of vegetables (broccoli, zucchini,…
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Easter Snack Tray & Bitsy’s Announcement
Hi! There a many new faces here and I have so fun news some I wanted to introduce myself again, I am Kristan, a mom to three kids ages 3 to 8. I love to have fun with food, cook and bake with my kids as well as share my healthy family friendly adaptable recipes. …
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Peter’s 3rd Birthday
I cannot believe our baby is 3! Everyone always tells you that the days are long, but the years are short and it is really true. We had so much fun celebrating Peter this past week. It was especially special because it was the first birthday that we were really able to celebrate with family…
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Leprechaun Hat Cake
Hi! Hope you had a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day. Savanna was home from school on Monday and Tuesday as the teachers made preparations for them to return to school full time. On her day’s off we decided it would be fun to do a big baking project together for St. Patrick’s Day. We built this Leprechaun…
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2020 Year in Review & 2021 Intentions
Happy New Year!! I hope you had a mostly wonderful holiday with your family. We were very fortunate and were able to spend the holidays with some family while missing others. And in total as I reflect on the past year that sort of sums it up. In a tough year where we missed many…
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Mother Daughter Book Club – Chapter 2: Hidden Figures
For our second Mother Daughter Book Club we chose Hidden Figures by Margot Lee. This book has so many wonderful teaching messages and is perfect for many of the current movements that are circulating. It was not intended but it fits perfectly with woman empowerment and the women supporting women movement that is going on! …
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Mother Daughter Book Club – Chapter 1: Meet Yasmin
First chapter of the Mother Daughter Book Club was a success! With two of our beach and camp friends that we have formed a close circle with we decided it would be fun this year to form a little summer book club. We could meet and plan food related to the book on picnic nights…
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Patriotic Snack Tray!
John requests a snack tray almost daily so I thought it would be fun to create a festive patriotic snack tray! This can work as fun big family snack or if you happen to be entertaining friends or family. It has a fun healthy assortment for kids and adults. I used my healthy yogurt ranch…
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