This is as far as I've gotten with my Thanksgiving prep. We will have a full house next week—a toddler, a preschooler, a 4th grader, a t...

Pumpkin Baked Brie En Croûte The older I get, the faster my days are flying by! I have so many things I want to do—and I do a lot of them—an...

No Knead Market Style Cheese & Herb Bread By the time I am at part 3 of what's happened at the farm as summer winds down, the photos...

Everything Bagel Dip About 5:00 most afternoons, I am hit with a bad case of the munchies. And I'm tempted to grab the first thing my ey...

Open Face Cucumber Sandwiches I thought I was the only one. The only one who had never made these. When Joanne asked me to make open face cu...

Today's Grandmother Gig is written by guest blogger, Little Sister. She and her family are spending the week at the lake with us.  We ha...

Toasted Maple Pecans Just because you're not having a Christmas party this year doesn't mean you can't have party food. We decid...

We went to the most lovely bridal tea party over the weekend. Such a wonderful day for the two families to get to know each other. And it...

Friend Missy (who is now a Mimi herself) shared her Mimi's recipe for Nuts & Bolts with me weeks ago. There are so many versi...

  I'm sitting here this morning, enjoying the fire—our last morning cool enough to have one—and another Christmas movie, while I...

Baked Sausage Dip What a weekend! It has rained non-stop for days now. As of this morning, we've had over 10 inches of r...

  Quick Gruyere Puffs Okay. So when the doctor's office has magazines full of recipes like this on laying around, are they drumming...

Less than a week to go to Christmas. Like most of you, I've been busy here with Christmas things, non-Christmas things and life in ...

Yes, I am sticking to my plan and doing " doing less ." (But, it's Christmas—I have to do something!) In fact, I'm ta...