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Easy Nutella Pops Made With Three Ingredients To Make With Grandchildren, Beginning with Toddlers
This Grandma always checks whether I have written a previous blog post on a topic before I write a new post on a topic. I am always on a...
Sep 23, 20233 min read


This Five Star Chocolate Dump Cake Wins The Best Dump Cake Award
More than anything else, this Grandma loves chocolate of any kind, dark, milk white, and anything made with chocolate. This Grandma loves...
Jul 2, 20234 min read


For a Thanksgiving Dessert, Make Ahead Oreo Ice Cream Cake is the Best: Easy, Simple Ingredients, No Bake and Grandchildren Friendly
Looking for the best and easy make ahead no bake Thanksgiving dessert to make with grandchildren for Thanksgiving, I looked for ice cream...
Nov 19, 20222 min read


Fast and Easy Halloween Cookies and Special Treats for 2022, Halloween Treats for Babies, Healthy,
After looking at literally dozens of articles on Halloween cookies and treats of all kinds, this Grandma has curated those fast and easy...
Oct 16, 20223 min read


How To Make Candy Coated Cake Pops Like Those Found at Starbucks At Home With or For Grandchildren
It is dangerous to take grandchildren into Starbucks. These little balls of cake with frosting and sprinkles on a stick like a lollipop...
Sep 18, 20222 min read


Comfort Food During the 2022 Winter of Chaos With Grilled Cheese and Homemade Tomato Soup
With all the chaos and uncertainty around us this winter, as well as record breaking temperatures nationwide and ridiculous amounts of...
Mar 25, 20223 min read


No Bake Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies and Place Cards to Make With Grandchildren
For Thanksgivings past, the preschool grandchildren came home with Thanksgiving decorations that I have kept and still adorn our...
Nov 28, 20212 min read


Easy Vanilla or Chocolate Pudding Dirt Cake Recipe Especially With Grandchildren Who Love to Play in the Dirt
Our youngest grandchild has the largest sandbox at home created by his handy father. Nevertheless, he took his wagon, favorite excavator...
Aug 29, 20213 min read


It Cannot Get Easier than A Fourth of July Red, White, and Blue Cake Made In Minutes For 2021 Celebr
Even President Biden says it is time to celebrate! This Fourth of July 2021 is most special as many of us have not enjoyed the company of...
Jul 4, 20212 min read


Worms in Strawberries and Levels of Filth, Mold, and Insects Allowed in Our Food By The FDA Oh My!
Growing up with Holocaust survivor parents, our refrigerator and pantry overflowed with food. So much food that there was spoilage. That...
Jul 3, 20215 min read


Spring and Summer Dessert Pizza Recipes after Pizza for Breakfast
It is hard for this Grandma to realize that I have been sharing “grandma lessons” since September 2011, almost ten years. What is harder...
Apr 29, 20214 min read


The Four Ways The Pandemic COVID-19 Even Affects Our Celebration of National Ice Cream Month
July is National Ice Cream Month. That makes sense. July is the highlight month of the summer, with July 4th and summer vacations and...
Jul 22, 20205 min read


Rainbow Bread to Enjoy On Our Way to Reach “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”
Times are hard right now for all of us. There is a perfect song for this time,“Somewhere over the Rainbow” from Wizard of Oz. If you have...
Jun 24, 20204 min read


For A Sweet Relief From Seriousness of the Pandemic, Ice Cream Bread To Try Out For Yourself With The Leftover Rainbow Sprinkles You Cannot Now Share With Your Grandchildren or Zoom Make it With Them
Pandemic Pounds. That is what I call the extra weight I am carrying around due to a sweet tooth and being home all the time to overdo. ...
May 20, 20202 min read


Valentine’s Day 2020With GG’s (Great Grandmother) Cookie Recipe or David’s Cookies
This Grandma realized several years ago that greeting cards and stamps for mailing are getting so expensive that it is not much more to...
Feb 12, 20203 min read


Introducing Salad to Grandchildren Putting Fruits and Vegetables On A Pedestal First and Other Art Installation Projects
Honoring fruits and vegetables by putting them on a pedestal never occurred to this Grandmother. It took an artist exhibiting at the...
Feb 5, 20203 min read


February 5, 2020 is World Nutella Day with Secrets and Nutella Recipes Galore to Share With Grandchildren
This Grandma is always surprised at some national day selections and was surprised that there was a National Nutella Day. I was wrong. ...
Jan 29, 20203 min read


Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bowls Made Hard . . . Or the Easy Way . . . With Grandchildren of All Ages
Our grandchildren love raw cookie dough. It was so difficult when we first had the raw egg scare and then the uncooked flour scare. See...
Jan 15, 20203 min read


Missing Thanksgiving Magic – Cookie Bars — and Significant Family Presence
This Thanksgiving our youngest daughter, our son-in-law, and their three of our precious grandchildren did not make it to Florida. Our...
Dec 4, 20194 min read


Fake Food Now Extends to Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese When the Real Thing is Grandchildren’s Favor
Grandpa and I just returned from Sicily and Malta, where farm to table is the norm. The food was natural and fresh with no...
Nov 13, 20193 min read
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