Holidays

Halloween Tips for moms of Preschoolers and halloween dinner meal ideas for fun (and not scary) memories with their family. #Halloweenideas #preschoolhalloween #dollarstorecostumes #halloweenmeals #halloweendinner #halloweensnacks

Is anyone else looking for fun ways to celebrate Halloween with your preschooler? I love to bring fun to our holiday traditions, but it's hard when you have a complicated holiday like Halloween. Whether you dress up or not, eat candy or ban it or put pumpkins on...

Oct 26, 2022

Holidays Recipes

Crazy Eyeball Monster Cookies

These crazy eyeball monster cookies are a fun take on the best chocolate chip cookie you will ever eat. I double-dog dare you to find a better chocolate chip cookie. This year I thought it would be fun to mix up my recipe for different holidays and see what we...

Oct 25, 2022

Holidays Recipes

Goulash

"Sometimes you make a recipe a certain way because that's the way your family has eaten it for generations." This was where my mom and I landed in a recent conversation about GOULASH.

Oct 12, 2022

Holidays Recipes

This simple Happy Harvest snack mix is easy to throw together for after school snacks, to take to a fall party, Thanksgiving Day pre-dinner munchies, or for game day snacking. Package it up to take to classmates, co-workers, or neighbors. #fallsnacks #fallchexmix #cerealsnackmix #falltreat #halloweentreat #thanksgivingsnacks

Its Fall Y’all Snack Mix

By now, you know I love a good snack mix. And I love Fall, so today, I've combined the two into our favorite fall snack mix and treat to take to friends. And it's already made a tailgate appearance. It is the perfect treat to keep in a bowl for small group, fall...

Oct 5, 2022

Holidays Recipes

This lighter take on Cowboy Enchiladas uses lean proteins and hides a few extra veggies to help beef up the vitamins and nutrients for big and little cowboys; perfect for Sunday dinner, feeding a crowd or make ahead for a busy weeknight dinner.

Lean Mean Cowboy Enchiladas

This is my personal spin on a McKinney family favorite - Cowboy Enchiladas. There seem to be multiple versions of this circulating, so I decided to add my own spin with extra vegetables and the fat-free version of most ingredients. I mean, if you are going to...

Sep 14, 2022

Holidays Recipes

Cheesy Hashbrown Breakfast Pizza

This post for Cheesy Hashbrown Breakfast Pizza first appeared on the Arkansas Influencers blog as part of a project for the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board. Their partnership no longer exists and this recipe and blog content has been released to me as the original...

Aug 17, 2022

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A bunny cake is one of the easiest Easter traditions to start with your family - take an ordinary boxed cake mix and dress it up with candy decorations.

Bunny Cake for Easter

Is it Easter until you’ve made an Easter Bunny Cake? I have a friend who always used this tradition with her kids and now I love to make an Easter Bunny Cake with my kiddo. It's so easy and kinda like gingerbread houses, there really aren’t any decorating rules....

Apr 13, 2022

Holidays Recipes

These five cold spring salads with fruit and fluffy whipped topping are perfect for church potlucks, Easter dinner, or ladies' luncheons.

5 Cold Spring Salads

Something about Easter dinner and springtime makes me love and look forward to cold spring salads with fruit and that fluffy texture. Maybe it's having folks from East Texas or loving a Sunday potluck, but I’m the lady who still likes a cold salad. Well, most of...

Apr 6, 2022