a peek inside the fishbowl

This one is about palm kernel oil, cooking with kids, finding time to cook, and a keeper recipe for ham and pineapple quesadillas.

Some time ago I came up with a handy dandy summer survival motto for my mom-self: One Thing Every Day.
The Things I’m referring to are activities I do with the girls. The idea here is that I do at least ONE THING with the girls every day - big or small - and the rest of the time they’re [...]

We parents are quick to sign our kids for swimming lessons and soccer, hockey and gymnastics. Sure, some kids branch out into pottery and karate, but I wanted to share with you a little something that the eldest has been up to.
Mark’s parents are members of Hylands Golf Club and last summer they signed Emma up for [...]

I am slowly making my way through an unbelievably vast mountain of laundry.
Last week I posted about the girls going to summer camp up in Temagami. What I didn’t mention was that we were joining them a few days after their departure. (I hate letting the world know our house is going to be empty. There [...]

Last Thursday I realized that we didn’t draw an activity from the KMDM tip jar. So I drew one (late!):
Put meat, veggies and cheese on a kabob for school lunches. The best choices are foods from the four food groups.
That was easy enough. But I didn’t have a kebob (isn’t it spelled kebab?) so I just [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about that list of simple pleasures I posted the other day, and how they affect my sense of happiness in general.
One of the things I forced myself to do that day was strip the bed and hang the sheets outside for a few hours before bedtime. When I got into [...]