Finding balance with housekeeping when you have small children can be really tough!   There are some days that I feel like I’m walking in quicksand just trying to keep up. Some days it’s so bad that I genuinely have to give myself a pep talk to get up and work on it when I …

Last fall I bought a pound of Vanilla Beanswhen I was making my neighbor Christmas gifts (which were home-made Tahitian Vanilla Extract). I had no idea how much to buy, so I went ahead and bought a full pound. I ended up having about ¾ of them left over. Talk about a happy accident! Vanilla …

A house fire has got to be one of my biggest fears! I have to say that it is a completely rational one too…which I think is the scariest part! The week that we moved here a family in our new church group lost their house to a fire. This hit a little too close …

I’m a bit of a 1950’s romantic when it comes to Heirloom Recipes (family recipes that have been passed down). The whole time I am preparing the recipe I daydream about the house-dresses that would have been worn, the retro kitchen gadgets that would have been used, the darling aprons, and the smells that would …

My house has a LOT of stairs leading up to the front door (compared to the one step we had at the condo). If I still lived in the Salt Lake Valley it would be a little bit of an issue having 8 or so steps, but out here, we get a good 10+ inches …

Miracle Pan Release is a bakers best friend! It really works! Your baked goodies slide right out of the pan!  However, every single recipe that I’ve found online has both vegetable shortening AND vegetable oil in it & we cut those fats out of our family’s diet a couple of years ago. Anyway, I decided …