Happy Friday! I didn’t publish any blog posts this week – that might be the first time ever! It was the last week of summer and we are dealing with a plumbing mystery that has taken hours (days?) of our time and is resulting in the need to repipe our house. Yes, totally sucky. But, I have a house to repipe, so who am I to complain? As a result of my non-posting this week, I’m bubbling over with things to share with you, so today’s Show and Tell is chock full of good stuff!

I had a post publish on Babble this week entitled Kick It Old-School with this Milk Toast Breakfast Recipe. I’ve been excited for this post to go live so I could share it with you. The recipe is seriously delicious. As wonderful as the recipe is, I have a little something else about milk toast that I have to tell you about.

Milk toast is considered a “vintage” recipe, one that I’ve found many people haven’t even heard of. While I was researching milk toast for my article, I came across a comment on a random website by a reader named “Grumpy” that absolutely captured my heart. “I have tried to make [milk toast] from memories of my mother making it when we were children. We had more milk than we could use from the cow I milked, and fresh home churned butter mixed into the hot milk. Mine is not near as good as I remember it was back then. I am 85 and have to cook now, after all these years. I do miss my darling wife’s cooking.” Seriously, this might win best comment on the internet ever. I can’t even.

Moving on to less cute, more depressing things…how’s that for a segue? Aren’t you excited to keep reading? I thought so! Remember my annual New Year’s Resolution to Use Less Plastic? We haven’t talked about it since the beginning of the year, so I thought I’d touch base real quick. I found an article on Medium this week that you should absolutely read, Gyres: The Terrifying True Story of the Garbage That Could Kill the Human Race. I had a similar reaction when reading this article as I did when I saw the documentary Bag It and the short video The Story of Stuff – basically a horrified, “we have to do something” reaction. The article about gyres is loooooonnnng and, honestly, the writing is super flowery and kind of hard to get through, BUT you still need to read it. I had pulled a bunch of quotes to share in this post but realized I had pulled paragraphs of quotes, so it’s probably better for you to just go to the source. And then let’s use less plastic together! I think about this goal every day and our family has definitely made progress, little by little. As Gandhi so eloquently said, “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” We can do it! (Sorry for the cheerleading, preachy portion of today’s program…sometimes I can’t help myself.)

Here are my other food links for the week!

• On Babble: Luscious Lemon Chicken”¦with Just 4 Ingredients (this is an adaptation of a recipe I got from a friend when we got married…it’s so simple and truly luscious!)
• On Cosmo: 16 Refreshing Lemonade Recipes You Need This Summer

Phew! I’m done! Your turn to share whatever you like! Also, if you’ve joined me on the Use Less Plastic train, tell us how it’s going!

Happy Friday! I’m currently sitting in Pacific City, Oregon looking out my hotel window at the ocean, where there is a HUGE rock poking through the fog to say good morning. My visit to Tillamook has been amazing and I’ll definitely share more next week! For now you can go look at all my pictures from the trip so far on Instagram and I need to go get gussied up to meet some Tillamook cows!

Here are my food posts on Babble and Cosmo this week!

• Why Cooking with Kids Is Worth the Effort
• 3 Kids, a Mom & a Kitchen: Sofia’s Tea Sandwiches and Lettuce Cups
• 16 Strawberry Shortcake Recipes That Are Totally to Die For

Everyone gets a turn during show and tell, so please share your own stuff!

Before I get to food links, I have two things to share with you that I’m loving.

First off, I started wearing Birks. As in Birkenstocks, specifically the Gizeh sandals. I received them as a gift last fall at a Ladies’ Home Journal event but didn’t start wearing them, despite my sister-in-law Hannah who works in fashion in NYC telling me that people were totally wearing them again. Then I bought a standing desk and my feet started hurting from standing so much and then I pulled out the fancy new Birks and THEN I FELL IN LOVE. Just thought I should let you know. My feet never hurt when I wear these. Plus, they’re actually kinda cute.

Second, a new company started by a mom contacted me about trying out their product, the Kupp’. My kids are absolutely loving it! I love that they are made out of glass, given my goal to phase out plastic as much as possible from our lives, but the silicone sleeve makes them very kid-friendly. And my kids love having their very own cup to be responsible for. They basically haven’t used anything else for two weeks!

Here’s my post on Babble this week. My kids and I were supposed to try a Disney recipe out and report on how it went. The popsicles are made from non-fat, plain yogurt, bananas and blueberries with just a bit of honey. I honestly didn’t think my kids would like the popsicles that much, but I was so wrong. They loved them! This is a great recipe for kids:

• 3 Kids, a Mom, & a Kitchen: Sofia’s Magic Amulet Frozen Yogurt Popsicles

And food fun on Cosmo:

• 15 Perfect Peach Recipes You Need to Try This Summer
• 15 Incredible Three-Ingredient Desserts
• 12 Unexpected Ways to Use Peanut Butter
• 10 Amazing Ice Cream Sandwiches You Must Try This Summer

As always, please share anything you like!

Happy Friday! Happy August!

I don’t have anything particularly awesome to share today because I just spent three hours getting new tires on my car. Because I drove over a construction tool on the way home from the beach on Wednesday. And, you know what? As much as it all was completely inconvenient and expensive, I never freaked out. I remained surprisingly calm. On a related note, a few nights ago I got pulled over for not stopping completely at a stop sign and, again, was calm and collected. My friend Barbara said I was “cool as a cucumber.” (In the end no ticket, luckily!) So, I guess my big share today is that maybe I’m getting a little more zen than I used to be. Maybe. I am trying. Because, honestly, even when the crappy stuff happens, what do I have to complain about? I got to hang out with my kids this week, work at jobs I love, go to the beach, look at stuffed animals (literally) at the natural history museum with little people who for some reason just really love taxidermy. It’s all good, popped tires and all.

Okay, time for some fun food links!

On Babble, my kids and I tried another one of the Dishes by Disney recipes:

• 3 Kids, a Mom & a Kitchen: Spicy Veggie Chips and Popcorn Party Mix

And all kinds of yumminess on Cosmo:

• 10 Amazing Ice Cream Sandwiches You Must Try This Summer
• 21 Charming Ways to Use Cinnamon
• 13 Genius Spiked Popsicles
• 12 Flawless Ice Cream Cakes You Need to Make This Summer

Please share your own thoughts/links/blog posts/accomplishments/anything!

Happy Friday! I survived our first full week of summer at home. Yay! My strategy is to work a bit each day and then plan one fun thing to go out and do with the kids each day (even if it’s just a stop at the library or sprinklers in the yard). One of our fun activities this week was watching Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. I can’t even tell you how excited I was when it came onto Netflix service recently. The kids totally loved it! I especially love how nervous Cate would get during the suspenseful scenes, it was crazy cute. Also, I can’t believe how much of that movie I still have memorized. Kinda scary.

Here are links to all my other stuff on the web this week!

On Babble:

• What To Do With Your Summer Tomato Harvest
• 3 Kids, a Mom, & a Kitchen: Jake’s Buried Treasure Banana Pudding

And Cosmo:

• 14 Delicious Desserts You Can Make on the Stove
• 20 Recipes That Will Make Zucchini Your Favorite Summer Food
• 16 Slushy Drinks That’ll Keep You Cool All Summer

Your turn to share whatever you want! Blog posts, fantastic finds, summer activity ideas, it’s all fair game!

Hello, everyone! So, I really took a break from the blog this week…I don’t know the last time I did that! It’s just that we were too busy doing things like this…

But the party ends today…we’re flying home this afternoon! We’ve been gone almost a month and, as absolutely wonderful as our trip has been, it will be nice to sleep in our own beds tonight. That is if we survive the flight…wish me luck flying alone with 3 kids!

Here are my food posts elsewhere on the web this week!

• On Babble: Healthy Morning Milkshakes!
• On Cosmo: 17 Shrimp Dishes You Should Make All Summer
• On Cosmo: 11 Fun Things You Can Make with an Ice Tray
• On Cosmo: 8 Fabulous Fondue Recipes

Your turn for show and tell – share whatever you want!

Happy Friday! Just a few fun links today and then I’ll be out of your hair! 😉 As always, please share your own stuff in the comments, too! I love seeing what you’re up to/what caught your eye during the week/all of it!

Okay, so I really loved writing my Babble post about making fondue with kids this week. We put it all together with our extended family here in New Jersey and had a blast! The cooking was fun, the eating was fun and everything tasted wonderful. Plus, there are lots of cute photos and two great recipes in the post. So, you know, be sure to check it all out!

• 3 Kids, a Mom & a Kitchen: Fun with Fondue!

And here are some fun posts on Cosmo this week!

• 13 Fun Uses for Pancake Mix
• 15 Crazy Amazing Things You Can Make With Cayenne Pepper
• 18 Quick Summer Snacks You Need Now

Happy Friday! We are having loads of fun here in New Hampshire. Well, besides the mosquitos. I could do without the mosquitos. But the views make up for it. And the fun with family, including Nate’s Ninja turtle-themed birthday party complete with GI Joes. Also, on a related note, we flew out via jetBlue and basically I love them more than ever. That’s all. They’re the best.

Here is my post for Babble this week:

• Fresh and Pretty Patriotic Berry Pudding Parfaits

And food fun on Cosmo!

• 20 Totally Crazy Rice Crispy Treat Recipes
• 10 Surprising Things to Do With Pudding
• 10 Cool Frozen Yogurt Recipes You Need This Summer

Lastly, I’m going to be sharing some yummy milk recipes on Babble in the next few weeks in support a new Disney web series called Citizen Kid, which features ordinary kids doing extraordinary things. Below is the first episode and it’s super cute. Click here to see more great stories! I’ll be sure link to my milk recipes when they go live, too!

Alright, you know the drill – share your own stuff!!!

Happy Friday! I hope everyone is having a great summer. Our summer break is off to a great start, well, if you don’t count Owen putting a bead up his nose and having to run to the doctor to get it out. At least I got to experience that parenting rite of passage, right?

Okay, so, my posts on Babble this week are really cool and you have to go check them out! I shared some of the food and drink we had at our lip sync party last week, which was delicious!

How to Create an Italian Soda Bar: For real, I LOVED this. The sodas were delicious, there were so many ways to personalize your drink and it was pretty! Also, the Italian soda bar is appealing to kids and adults alike. Such a great thing to do for parties! Be sure to click through to see how to do it.

How to Create a Bruschetta Bar: For the appetizers I set up a bruschetta bar and it was scrum-diddly-umptious. Click through for the deets.

And here are my fun food posts on Cosmo this week!

• 18 Tasty Ways to Eat Breakfast on the Go
• 10 Awesome Desserts You Can Make in the Microwave
• The 15 Best Chocolate Chip Cookies You Will Ever Eat

It’s show and tell, which means the whole class gets to participate – share your stuff!

Tonight I am hosting a Lip Sync Battle/Deaf Man’s Karaoke party at my house. Why? Because I’m crazy and I am good at convincing other people to do crazy things. It should be FUN. I can’t tell you what song I’ll be performing, but I can say it will be a lip sync. I will also be setting up a bruschetta bar and a make-your-own Italian soda bar, both of which I will write about next week. Yummy stuff. In honor of tonight, here is my favorite lip sync battle from Jimmy Fallon (although, Emma Stone’s was pretty amazing, too. Oh, and John Krasinski was hilarious. Okay, I don’t have a favorite.)

Here are my posts on Cosmo this week:

• 15 Peanut Butter Cookies You’ll Want To Eat Every Day (yesterday was National Peanut Butter Cookie Day – yep, that’s a thing, and now you have 15 recipes to celebrate with!)
• 18 Crazy Cute Funfetti Recipes
• 16 Ways to Have a Piña Colada at Every Meal

And on Babble:

• Why the Pizza Cutter Needs a New Name
• 3 Kids, a Mom, and a Kitchen: Freezer Jam

Okay, everybody, sharing time! Your turn for show and tell!