I can’t believe there are only two weeks of camp to go before the school year starts up again! Where has the time gone? While my mind can’t wrap itself around the fact that the summer is coming to a close, the weather begs to differ. It’s been hot, humid, mosquito-y, and full of outdoor [...]
In case you haven’t noticed in the dozens of post I’ve done on the matter, I get food nostalgia. I have so many memories of specific dishes, recipes, smells, that remind me of different times in my life. This is an odd one though. There are few foods that I remember loving as much as [...]
I’d been looking forward to June 26 for a long time. Besides the fact that it was my dad’s birthday (happy late birthday Dad!), it was the scheduled night for our bi-monthly meeting of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pans! We decided at our last meeting that our next culinary stop would be Latin America, [...]
It was brought to my attention (Thanks Lizz) that I didn’t do a Wednesday in Numbers this past week. You see, one of the problems with working with as many children as I do is that, well, children have germs. They managed to pass on a lovely cold/sore throat/earache/headache lovely disease from Tuesday until yesterday, [...]
Last summer, I started a tradition of my crazy camp Wednesdays broken down into numbers. This year, that tradition will continue, but it will also include much better photos and a recipe. 222: Campers in attendance today 10: campers in my group 3: junior counselor/helpers for my group 750: game tokens handed out 2745: total [...]
While at my mom’s the other day watching the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup (!!!!!!), we were reminiscing about healthy recipes I enjoyed as a kid. She reminded me of a few that you’ll be seeing in days to come, but one really stuck in my mind because it was not only easy, but I [...]