Banana Ice Cream

I have something SO awesome to share with you, I can hardly stand it! I can take NO credit whatsoever for this delicious concoction. Most of my recipes are my own creations, or such a major overhaul of someone else’s idea that I can still claim it as my own. … Continue reading

Back in the Kitchen – Salmon Patties!

Click here for my revised recipe. It’s also egg-free and gluten-free, and has printable formatting and much better photos! Thank you! Ever since Thanksgiving, I’ve been pretty much out of the kitchen.  With being so sick for so long, I completely lost my drive to ‘create’ and found myself fairly … Continue reading

Learning to Listen

Recently I shared some ‘before’ and ‘after’ pictures of my amazing weight loss with my online Mommy friends (from the Parenting Weekly monthly birth club group I joined when I was pregnant with Mr. Charm – yes, three years later and we’re still an active group!) and they were impressed … Continue reading

Choco-holic Charmer

When Mr. Charm turned one, I made him a dairy and egg free chocolate smush/eat cake and some homemade chocolate ice cream. He wouldn’t eat any of it.  In fact, his face was straight up “UGH!” That winter, I found a dairy free hot cocoa recipe that tasted AMAZING. He … Continue reading

Tears for Pizza

It’s such a normal sight: the family gathered around the table sharing a big ‘ol pizza.  Pizza is a fabulous finger food for a toddler, just like grilled cheese sandwiches, cheese sticks, chicken fingers and string cheese. I’ve never once seen my son eat any of those.  (Except homemade chicken … Continue reading

Quinoa Pasta Noodles

Spaghetti has always been a big hit in our household.  Thanks to my Dad, I make a knock-your-socks-off spaghetti sauce.  The Geek lived in Italy for a few years, and he says my sauce is as good, if not better, than most of the sauces he ate while he was … Continue reading

Released!

Tuesday I woke up to another set of doctor’s rounds with the gaggle of interns.  Out of the blue, they informed me that if Mr. Happy ate well this morning, as expected, he would be released that afternoon.  Say what?  I was dumbfounded!  Of course I wanted him to come home, … Continue reading

Infant/Toddler Unit

I woke up in the morning to discover that sometime in the night, Mr. Happy had decided that he no longer needed to be on oxygen.  He had pulled the canula out of his nose and it was over his head like a headband.  The nurse saw this while I … Continue reading