My 8-year-old came to me in tears one afternoon last week, asked for a hug, and said, “I am so confused.” Then he proceeded to sob so hard that I couldn’t understand what he was saying. I thought maybe he had been fighting with his brother – that’s the safe bet anytime there are tears. …
My youngest had the best time playing in leaves last weekend. Oh, the joy that jumping into a fresh pile of leaves brings for a kid. Oh, the joy it brings for a mama watching him out the kitchen window. It wasn’t just automatic. He raked and raked and even borrowed his Dad’s leaf blower …
I recently made a couple of Reese’s cakes for fundraisers. If you’re going to do any real kind of decorating on a cake you need to level your layers. When you do that you get cake scraps. I leveled four layers so I had a small container’s worth of these scraps. As I finished up …