by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Book Reviews, Handmade & Homemade, Life
The smell of bread baking is almost an everyday occurrence in our home. But to my children’s friends, it’s the smell of a magical world come to life! I laugh every time one of their friends says, “Your mom makes bread?!” I remember well the scents of my grandmother’s...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Handmade & Homemade, Life
Last month’s menu from Thailand was outstanding! (Wait a minute while I pat myself on the back.) My children ate, my husband ate, and we all learned a great deal about Thailand. If you missed cooking Chef Hong’s Pad Thai recipe last month, put it on this...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Life, Negotiations & Lullabies
My first baby turned 10 today. Ten. Perhaps it’s the double digits, or as we have taken to calling it here, The Decade Celebration, but I have been wandering around the house shaking my head that I have now been parenting for a decade. There is something significant...
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Remember when I said that Dinners Around the World was a New Year’s Resolution goal for the new year? I am fully embracing my goal rhetoric because I find myself in mid-April with a family who has just recovered from a week of the stomach flu yet still delirious with...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Life, Negotiations & Lullabies
It was an ordinary night at the dinner table. In fact we were eating one of January’s Indian dinners with the kids while looking at the map and talking about India’s neighboring countries. Our conversation migrated to talking about their friends East Indian heritage...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Handmade & Homemade, Life
So, I have to ask. How did February go? Did your family enjoy Indian food? Let me tell you about our rocky journey through India. First, I made the Chicken Curry way too hot. Not just your meager, that’s spicy – way, way too hot. I was sweating. The kids...
