Breakfast with Nyla

“eat glitter for breakfast and sparkle all day” Schools out, which means Nyla will be spending a lot of time here. She loves to visit Grammie and Papa. It is always an adventure with her. I was hoping that she would eat the breakfast that I prepared for her but all she wanted was the…

Logan’s Home

“collect moments not things” My daughter Logan came home for the weekend; she requested a few things to eat and what she wanted for Sunday dinner. Her list consisted of pizza strips from a bakery (you can’t get them in Florida), everyones favorite green olive dip with Fritos, macaroni and cheese grilled cheese sandwich, and…

Cooking With Mia

“there’s no place like home except grammies” Tonight I get to cook with Mia. It doesn’t happen often because she is involved in cheerleading. When she was younger we used to bake all the time, now that she is 10 years old she cheers more, has a lot of homework, and likes hanging out at…

Grandpa Eggs

“wake up and be awesome” My dad’s parents died when I was 8 years old so I don’t remember a lot about them. What I do remember, though, was that my grandfather would eat soft boiled eggs everyday. So whenever I wanted soft boiled eggs I would refer to them as “Grandpa eggs.” It’s funny…

Quinoa

“eat like you love yourself” Quinoa is another favorite and healthy food that Ronnie, my husband and Anthony, my son want to eat, it has so many health benefits. It’s high in fiber, magnesium, B vitamins, iron, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin E, and various beneficial antioxidants. I could go on and on. I buy it…

My Gardening Experience

“the earth laughs in flowers” Ralph Waldo Emerson While shopping for plants ( which I never do without Ronnie ) I walked in circles because I didn’t know where to start. Ronnie usually guides me, I tell him the colors I want and he grabs them. I must have looked confused because this lovely lady…

Sunday dinners

“The fondest memories are made gathered around the table” My children think I’m a little corny ( or should I say a lot ) because I always want everyone to be together. So for the past 34 years I’ve made it a point to have Sunday dinners. Throughout the years sports or other activities got…

Let the birthdays begin!

“life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated” unknown My dad used to say, “Everyone should have a birthday cake”. So of course I go to the extreme in everything I do . When my children were young I had the typical kid’s birthday parties as they got older we would go out…

Day after Sunday

“happiness is…. leftovers” While cooking on Sunday, I try to make enough so I have leftovers for Ronnie and Anthony’s lunch on Monday and a little more for Monday night. Sometime it works and other times like tonight it doesn’t. I thought I had enough meatballs left over for tonight’s dinner and I figured I…

What’s for dinner

“dinner is better when we eat together” When I first got married the first thing my husband would ask, (before we even got out of bed) is , “What we are going to have for dinner?” He would throw out all these ideas and I thought , can’t we get through breakfast and lunch first….