A Napple crisp is the perfect way to use up a binful of apples. They were starting to get mushy anyway. It was an 80F degree day today,...

I've given up the wheat bread fight. Growing up, we had delicious, homemade wheat bread, or we had the wheat bread from the store. I've...

Do you want to know how to be a pretty cool mom? Buy a new TV. I wasn’t sold on the exact reasons we needed a new TV. I don’t even...

Pi. 3.141592653589793... Oh, wrong pi. Pie. Yum. Flaky crust cradling a sugary-something. And you don't have to eat it only on March...

Hopefully, the end of this ______ shutdown is in sight. I've used much of the time just to enjoy my children and to work on projects I...

Have you guys ever been to Lambert's Cafe, Home of Throwed Rolls, in Sikeston, Missouri? (I know that should say thrown, not throwed. ...

Three thoughts stand out for the day: Christ the Lord is risen today; Kara makes the best cookies; I MISS PEOPLE! To start with, the...

Today's happenings included a time of me on Nintendo with Kal. I'm not too bad at Tetris, but as one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja...

Necessity is the mother of invention. My mom always says that. Now I always say that because our parents start coming out of our mouths...

Kara made some fabulous lemon brownies tonight. We thought we had the lemon bars recipe, but we don't. I know we could have looked it...

Biscuits and gravy are fabulous any day and for any meal, such as tonight's dinner. It's also fairly quick--one of the auto-pilot meals...

My children have wonderful, warm, winter coats. You wouldn't know it though, because they don't actually wear them much. Today, at 17...

Tonight was Oley's Pizza night. This tasty place is well worth the wait it takes to get to a table, then the wait for food. My...

If I could choose to be endowed with any superpower I wished for, it would be Mary Poppins's snap. Every night after dinner, when I've...

There's a pizza place in Indiana, near Fort Wayne on US 24 at the intersection of Homestead Road. Our family discovered it in the late...

I pity the people who never get to experience the tranquility of a fresh snowfall. All is silent and still. The snow feels like a...

When Kara asked me to make chocolate chip cookies with her tonight, my first impulse was not to do it. I really didn't feel like baking;...

We had house guests here last night, my sister, her husband, and their three children. Breakfast can tend to be a free-for-all, but I...