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Charleston and Folly Beach Getaway

By Lorraine

Charleston & Folly Beach Family Vacation Guide for 1st times visitors. Stroll the charming streets of Charleston, shop the City Market, delve into history at Patriots Point and Fort Sumter, and relax, swim, serf and play on Folly Beach. South Carolina at its best for kids and adults.Folly Beach, just south of Charleston, was our home away from home recently. A lovely getaway from the cold and a special time with family we don’t see often.  We were all first time visitors to this South Carolina port city founded in 1670. The weather was mostly perfect for our Charleston and Folly Beach getaway family vacation.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Family, Grandchildren, Travel Tagged With: Braden, Brenna, Ryan, shaela, travel

Spooky Halloween Food

By Lorraine

For goblins & ghouls, spooky Halloween food of bloodshot eyeball deviled eggs, moldy popcorn, spider web, squashed soup & lots more inspiration.
read with a slow, deep, menacing accent…
Do come in my friend…
I have prepared for you fiendish and Spooky Halloween food that will send shivers down your spine…Continue Reading

Filed Under: Holidays, Recipes Tagged With: Brenna, Caleb, Cambrie, Chloe, Grandchildren, Halloween, Jethro, John, Keri, Lorrie, Noah, Ryan, shaela, Silas

Shaela’s Caprese Bow Tie Pasta Salad

By Lorraine

Easy recipe for Caprese Bow Tie Pasta Salad served cold with fresh mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and basil. Perfect for summertime dining.
How many kids do you know that pack food ingredients when they come for a summertime visit to their grandparents home? Along with her clothes, personal belongings and a summer reading book, Shaela brought bow tie pasta, fresh Mozzarella and a list of other ingredients she would need from my garden and the market. Caprese Pasta Salad was a hit when she made it for her family back home and she was so excited to make a special dinner for her PopPop and I.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Pasta, Recipes Tagged With: basil, Grandchildren, pasta, shaela, tomatoes

Dragon Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing

By Lorraine

 
Gorgeous pink dragon fruit brightens this fresh fruit salad with a honey lime ginger dressing. Colorful, delicious and nutritious.
What is beautiful fuchsia pink on the outside and white with lots of black seeds on the inside? If it wasn’t for my grandkids I wouldn’t know either. They introduced me to Dragon Fruit. A unique fruit that adds visual interest and flavor to Dragon Fruit Salad with a Honey Lime Dressing.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Recipes, Salads & Dressings Tagged With: fruit, shaela

Cupcakes with Cherry Buttercream Frosting

By Lorraine

Vanilla Cupcakes with Cherry Buttercream Frosting: Easy recipe for vanilla cupcakes with cherry buttercream frosting. A delicious and fun recipe to make with kids.
 
 
What is better than a vanilla cupcake with a big swirl of fluffy cherry frosting, sprinkled with jimmies and topped with a cherry? Making them with a granddaughter, that’s what. Shaela came to spend part of her summer break with her PopPop and I and also spend time with her New Jersey cousins. Making vanilla cupcakes with cherry buttercream frosting cupcakes together topped her list of fun things to do while she was here. It was a sweet idea!

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Filed Under: Cakes & Cupcakes, Recipes, Sweet Treats Tagged With: Grandchildren, shaela

Knitted Headbands and Ear Warmers

By Lorraine

Keep those noggins warm with easy knitted headbands and ear warmers. Easily adjusted FREE pattern for different looks. They make great gifts too!
There are lots of noggins in my family so I love that these cute knitted headbands work up quickly. The kids love them and the pattern is easy to adjust for lots of different looks. Keep those noggins warm with easy knitted headbands and ear warmers. They make great gifts!

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Filed Under: Crafts, Knitting Tagged With: Brenna, Cambrie, Chloe, gifts, Joelle, shaela

Favorite Coffee Cake

By Lorraine

Easy recipe for a favorite coffee cake with a brown sugar crumb topping. Perfect for breakfast with coffee or at break time.
Favorite Coffee Cake, that is what it is called in my old Betty Crocker Cookbook. And it was a favorite made for us for breakfast by our granddaughter.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Cakes & Cupcakes, Recipes, Sweet Treats Tagged With: shaela

Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

By Lorraine

 
Easy recipe for Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake with a deep golden brown crust and sweet cream cheese filling with raspberry preserves and a crunchy almond topping.
Do your kids like to bake and putter in the kitchen? Our granddaughter does. Shaela’s list of things to do while visiting this summer from a few states away included baking. She chose to make this raspberry cream cheese coffee cake.
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Filed Under: Cakes & Cupcakes, Recipes, Sweet Treats Tagged With: cream cheese, Grandchildren, raspberry, shaela

summertime

By Lorraine

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Leonardo da Vinci
 

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Filed Under: Family, Travel Tagged With: Grandchildren, Jared, Keri, shaela

A week with Shaela

By Lorraine

We spent a long weekend visiting our daughter in upstate NY while her husband, Brad was in Massachusetts doing a two-week intense study as he works toward his school administration certificate.  The five hour drive can become boring but not with a spectacular sunset.

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Filed Under: Family, Grandchildren Tagged With: Abbey, Braden, Brenna, Crochet, Grandchildren, Jared, Jill, Ryan, shaela

Hawaiian Pasta Salad

By Lorraine

 
Hawaiian Pasta Salad with brightly colored veggies is a perfect summer salad. It is a hearty one too, with cheese tortellini, diced ham, bell peppers, cherry tomatoes and pineapple in a creamy dressing.Hawaiian Pasta Salad, brightly colored with an abundance of crisp veggies makes a perfect summer salad. It is a hearty one too, with the tortellini and diced ham. I served it at a graduation party as a side dish but it would be a great entrée served with crusty bread (and maybe a glass of wine) for a lovely summer supper.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Main Dishes, Pasta, Recipes Tagged With: Braden, Brenna, Caleb, Cambrie, Grandchildren, Jethro, Jill, Joelle, John, Noah, Ryan, shaela

Potato and Ham Soup

By Lorraine

When plans to be out for the day suddenly changed and I found I had nothing pressing to do, I knew immediately what I wanted.  I called my sister and was thrilled she was able to come for a visit. We chatted, caught up on family, laughed and ate a light lunch of potato and Ham Soup while Jared, Abbey, Erin and John popped in and out.

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Filed Under: Recipes, Soups & Stews Tagged With: Abbey, brad, Braden, Brenna, Cambrie, Easter, Grandchildren, Jared, Jill, Joelle, Keri, Noah, Ryan, shaela, Silas

Family Moments

By Lorraine

Jill came down from upstate New York to participate in The Love Run Philadelphia Half Marathon with her twin sister and a good friend, Megan.
in front of the Philadelphia Art Museum

 Jamie and Jill before the run on a brisk morning
Finished!
 The boys stayed at Jamie’s house and the girls stayed at my house. After making the bunny cake, they dyed Easter Eggs…
 experimented with the colors…
and techniques…
 admired their creations…
 then promptly decided to eat their masterpieces!
 someone liked them…
 someone didn’t
I went to my computer for a time while the girls played all about the house.  I heard them scampering in and out of the garage, upstairs and down. They yelled to me they were playing dress-up.  This is what I found! Quite an able crew, don’t you think!
 Then popcorn and a movie before bed
after all that baking and cleaning it’s hard for wee ones to stay awake
 Earlier this month, our oldest grandson was inducted into the Latin Honor Society. After the ceremony, we had a fun dinner at a nearby restaurant.
{ah, how I love this young man}

Filed Under: Family, Grandchildren Tagged With: Cambrie, Chloe, Easter, Grandchildren, Jamie, Jared, Jill, Keri, shaela

Easter Bunny Cake

By Lorraine

Make an easy Easter bunny cake using a box cake and either homemade or from-a-tub frosting for a sweet holiday dessert. A great cooking with kids activity as they assemble, frost and sprinkle on coconut.This adorable bunny cake is pretty and a really fun project to do with kids. My little granddaughters did all of the decorating themselves in less than 30 minutes.  After baking, I cut the layers in half and stood them up on the cut side after they added some frosting.  Then I cut the notches and let them go to town decorating.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Cakes & Cupcakes, Holidays, Recipes Tagged With: Cambrie, Chloe, Easter, Grandchildren, Jared, Keri, shaela

Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos

By Lorraine

I wanted to send my daughter and family and their sweet friends off with a hearty breakfast before their long drive home but I didn’t want to waste moments in the kitchen that could be spent enjoying their visit. A make-ahead breakfast helped out.

Jill, Brad and kids along with their good friends and their three sons drove here from upstate New York, spent the night, then flew to Florida for their dream vacation at Disney. After their return flight, they all stayed over again. Because they are not able to get (real) Philly cheese steaks and pizza at home, their request was to get take-out for dinner from our favorite restaurant. It took a trek through eight-inches of fresh snow and freezing temperatures to pick up three pizza’s and ten cheese steaks to fill up the twenty-four people gathered together.
Breakfast the next morning included Breakfast Burritos, Blueberry Boy Bait cake and Baked Oatmeal. 
The Breakfast Burritos, made the day before, were stacked in a dish, covered with plastic wrap and placed in the refrigerator.  At serving time, I removed the plastic wrap and warmed them in the microwave at 60% power until heated through.

Leftover burritos were wrapped individually and placed in the freezer. Directions below for reheating instructions.

Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos
source: Taste of Home

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Ingredients
 
1 pound Jimmy Dean® Premium Pork Sausage Roll
1-1/2 cups frozen cubed hash brown potatoes
1/4 cup diced onion
1/4 cup diced green or red pepper
4 eggs, lightly beaten
12 flour tortillas (8 inches), warmed
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Picante sauce or salsa (optional)
sour cream (optional)

Directions
In a large skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Add the potatoes, onion and pepper; cook and stir for 6-8 minutes or until tender. Add eggs; cook and stir until set.

Spoon filling off center on each tortilla. Sprinkle with cheese. Fold sides and ends over filling and roll up. Serve with picante sauce or salsa and sour cream, if desired.

To freeze and reheat burritos: Wrap each burrito in waxed paper and foil. Freeze for up to 1 month. To use, remove foil and waxed paper. Place one burrito on a microwave-safe plate. Microwave on high for 2 to 2-1/4 minutes or until a meat thermometer reads 165°, turning burrito over once. Let stand for 20 seconds.
Yield: 12 burritos.

Blueberry Boy Bait  is a yummy cake any time and it also freezes well. I baked one the day before and refrigerated. Here is the link for the Blueberry Boy Bait recipe.
I didn’t make the Baked Oatmeal ahead but did gather the ingredients together for quicker preparation in the morning.  Here is the link for the Baked Oatmeal recipe. 
After a long drive, a week of non-stop vacation, running and playing with cousins, the kids spent some less physical time on their devices as the grown-ups chatted. No doubt this generation is connected, comfortable and capable using technology! 
After breakfast, they were off on the last leg of their journey.  They arrived home safe and sound but not quite ready for…

Filed Under: Breakfast & Brunch, Recipes Tagged With: brad, Brenna, Friends, Grandchildren, Jill, Ryan, shaela

Family Recap

By Lorraine

I have been so busy this past month that I am just now catching up on family photos. These are the posts the little ones love best ~ the ones filled with their sweet faces.
These are my favorite posts too.
 
 
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Filed Under: Family, Grandchildren Tagged With: Abbey, Brenna, Caleb, Cambrie, Chloe, Christmas, Grandchildren, Jared, Jethro, Keri, Noah, Ryan, shaela, Silas

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