Kristin Schell
For the Love of Sweet Tea A year ago, Husband returned to a former love — sweet tea. I have no idea what prompted the hankering, but he came home with a gallon of unsweetened black tea, a box of Splenda, and never looked back. Me thinks he was missing his roots. Husband comes from a long line of sweet…
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Family Supper Matters Does your cooking ever go in spurts? Mine does. Yesterday, our seventeen-year-old son reminded me that I haven’t been cooking much lately. I could have spewed off all kinds of excuses for how busy we’ve been, but I chose to see the silver-lining: OUR TEENAGE SON REQUESTED MY COOKING! More importantly, he said he missed our family…
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1 Dish + 5 Ingredients = My Kind of Supper On occasion we all have just one of those days. You know the kind of day I’m talking about, the one where almost nothing goes as planned and it’s five o’clock and you feel depleted of any shred of inspiration or energy to whip up dinner. The answer to the age-old question, “what’s for dinner,…
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The Truth about Fairies Fairies exist. I know this because I have four children who have lost SEVENTY teeth and we are still counting. I finally gave the Tooth Fairy the alarm code and admonished her to keep her shenanigans to a dull roar. I am certain; however, magical, winged pixies exist because I have a personal Flower Fairy. She’s a seasonal fairy…
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Littlest, who turns six later this month, is reading. She carries a pink tote bag stuffed with books, mostly Dr. Seuss, plain white paper, and stubby colored pencils with her wherever she goes. Lately our weekends are overflowing with track meets and lacrosse games which gives Littlest ample time to read her favorite books and write and illustrate her own…
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