Spring Cookies

Spring Cookies

Here's an assortment of some of my favorite spring time cookies.

I made some organic sugar cookie dough with white wheat flour and lemon essence and some with whole wheat that were delicious with real almond extract. 

St. Patrick's Day Dinner

St. Paddy's Day Dinner

St. Patrick's Day fell on a Saturday this year, so just for fun, I was able to "dress" it up a bit for the kids.  They got into the creativity earlier in the day by squeezing fresh lemons and adding a drop of green food coloring to make their own leprechaun lemonade for a picnic lunch outside.  It was fun for me to collect a color scheme of items over the last few weeks and come up with creative ways to display our tables and put it all together.  I used my new addiction to Pinterest to gain ideas and mega inspiration.  I hope some of the ideas here can inspire your creativity too!  

Fun Italian Night Dinner

That's Amore'!

Some nights I just like to surprise the kids when they get home from school with a fun theme night for dinner.  It just adds a touch of amusement and playfulness to the house!  The girls always humor me and "play" along and we all enjoy the time together just being silly and leaving the stress of the day behind us.  A few night's ago I set up a fun Italian dinner theme with easy spaghetti and meatballs.  The kids toasted our little celebration of family with their grape juice "wine"!